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Australia : VICTORIAN govt.'s AU$6.65M grant to keep supercomputing facility [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) A AU$6.65 million grant by the Victorian government will allow the state to keep the supercomputing facility that its Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) is sharing with the IBM "Research Collaboratory" research centre. The government says the new funding allows the VLSCI to continue its work at its research hubs, which are currently sited at the University of Melbourne's campus in Parkville, Monash University's Clayton campus, and LaTrobe University's Bundoora campus. The IBM Research Collaboratory for Life Sciences in Melbourne has been jointly sited with the VLSCI since 2010, and is designed to ease cooperation between 10,000 world-class life sciences and medical researchers in the area. At the IBM research centre, researchers cooperate on structural biology, medical imaging, neuroscience, systems biology, and medical genomics. The Victorian government says it is t the "world's most powerful supercomputing facility dedicated to life sciences", and that the new funding would allow the supercomputing facility to continue its operations within Victoria. The state's Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips said the new grant is expected to see the facility "pursue a renewed focus on generating commercial opportunities and producing outcomes to grow Victoria's health and biotechnology industry, in close alignment with Victorian government priorities. Victoria's life sciences-related businesses will now have greater access to the world's most advanced life sciences research facilities, enabling them to tap into the expertise of our leading computational biologists to help grow and improve their businesses." (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |