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Capability 1.1.2.2.2

General-purpose Public Sector & Public Interest High-Performance Compute Infrastructure

Definition

National or institutional HPC systems supporting scientific, environmental and data-intensive computation, which indirectly enable AI by hosting data pre-processing, simulation or more validation tasks. This complements AI-specific infrastructure and ensures continuity of high-performance research capacity.

Examples

  • The National Computational Infrastructure (Gadi), Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre (Setonix), and major university systems (e.g. UNSW Katana).

Indicators

  • Total system capacity (PetaFlops)
  • Proportion of workloads supporting AI-enabling tasks (e.g. simulation, data preparation)

National AI Plan

PLAN COMMITMENT

Limited commitment

See general comment at 1.1.2.1.1 (Cloud Training Compute Infrastructure as a Service (public cloud)). Given the high public interest in fostering this capability, clarification and review of the government's current commitment is recommended.

Stocktake

Is the Stocktake missing evidence?

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