Stories about: Australian National University

Racist Facebook groups have sprung up in the wake of ethnic violence in Sydney's West.

Communications integrator, NSC Group, has upgraded the Australian National University (ANU) network to the new Avaya Aura architecture.

Amid rumours of Sun Microsystems being snapped up by IBM, the company has announced a whopping $30 million deal with Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) to build one of the largest high-performance computing environments in the southern hemisphere.

Commonwealth departments to trial Quantum Key Distribution.

Danish and Australian researchers have developed a chip that efficiently reads 640Gbps optical transmissions and could help pave the way to terabit Ethernet.

Two IT-themed projects have shared the $25,000 runners-up award in the Australian National University's Innovation ANU program - a staged business and commercialisation development program for ANU students and staff.

Researchers at the University of Sydney have developed technology that could boost the throughput of existing networks by 100-fold without costing the consumer any more, and its all thanks to a scratch on a piece of glass.

Linux and High Performance Computing go hand in hand. So to see what Australian users have been doing with Linux and HPC, this year's linux.conf.au is holding a Birds of a Feather session on the topic. Before the session kicks off we take time to speak to the BoF coordinator Anthony David. During the working day David works for SGI as the onsite engineer for the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC). Here, we ask him about the state of HPC in Australia and where it is heading. The following responses are his own personal beliefs and not that of his employer.