$100 million supercomputing program to drive more medical breakthroughs in Victoria
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17 June 2008
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More breakthroughs in life-threatening diseases will be possible with Victoria to be home to Australia’s first Supercomputer confirming Victoria’s position as a global leader in biomedical and scientific research.
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Visiting the University of California Supercomputer in San Diego, Premier of Victoria, John Brumby announced the Victorian Government would invest $50 million, complementing the University of Melbourne’s funding of $50 million, to establish the Supercomputer at the university’s Parkville Precinct.
Australia’s first Supercomputer, based in Melbourne, will accelerate ground-breaking research in key areas such as cancer, cardio-vascular and neurological disease, chronic inflammatory diseases, bone diseases, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases.
The $100 million Supercomputer will enable Victoria’s medical researchers to predict the likely resistance path of viruses to existing drugs, enabling researchers to stay one step ahead in designing better treatments
University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis said that as part of the initiative the University of Melbourne would develop a Life Sciences Computation Centre to undertake peak computing operations and share its computational biology expertise with other institutions in the Parkville Precinct.
“We are tremendously excited about the potential for this initiative to expand dramatically the State’s and the University’s capacity in bioinformanics, computational biology and advanced biomedical image analysis,” Professor Davis said.
“The far-reaching vision and scale of this initiative will combine Victoria’s already globally competitive biomedical research capability with computational infrastructure specially designed for the life sciences, equal to the best in the world.”
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