Researchers will be able to leverage big data for research and cross-disciplinary collaboration with the new high performance computer (HPC) service opened by the University of Sydney in partnership with Dell.
HP has announced a raft of products and services aimed at helping its customers move to what the company calls the 'New Style of IT' driven by big data, cloud, mobility, and security. That contrasts with the position of most vendors and analysts who think the 'S Factor' is social rather than security.
Intersect Australia will install an SGI supercomputer at one of Macquarie Telecom's Sydney data centres and make it available to Australian researchers.