The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) was an Australian organisation established in 1998 to provide advanced computing and grid infrastructure for Australian research communities. APAC was established under the

Systemic Infrastructure Initiative The Systemic Infrastructure Initiative was announced by the Government of Australia in January 2001 as part of Backing Australia's Ability – ''An Innovation Action Plan for the Future''. The Government announced that $246 million would be alloca ...

objective of the Australian Government's

Backing Australia's Ability Backing Australia's Ability (BAA) was a five-year innovation plan launched by the Howard Government in January 2001. Previous policy Previous policies for this group of portfolios under the Howard Government were: * ''Investing for Growth'', D ...

innovation plan. The Australian National University was the host institution for APAC. In 2007, APAC was replaced by the Platforms for Collaboration (PfC) capability 5.16 of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). The APAC National Facility was replaced with the

National Computational Infrastructure The National Computational Infrastructure (also known as NCI or NCI Australia) is a high-performance computing and data services facility, located at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. The NCI ...

component of PfC. The APAC Grid program was replaced with the Interoperation and Collaboration Infrastructure (ICI) component of PfC.

APAC Partners

AC3
- Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications in NSW #

ANU Anu ( akk, , from wikt:𒀭#Sumerian, 𒀭 ''an'' “Sky”, “Heaven”) or Anum, originally An ( sux, ), was the sky father, divine personification of the sky, king of the gods, and ancestor of many of the list of Mesopotamian deities, dei ...

- The Australian National University #

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# iVEC - Organisation for advanced computing in Western Australia
QCIF
- Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation
SAPAC
- South Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing
TPAC
- University of Tasmania acting as host for the Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing # VPAC - Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing

APAC Programs

* APAC National Facility ** The APAC National facility hosted a SGI Altix 3700 Bx2, with 1,680 Intel Itanium 2 processors, known as the "ac". This was ranked 26th in the world in the June 2005 Top500 list. * APAC Computational Tools & Techniques (CT&T) * APAC Grid * Education, Outreach and Training (EOT)

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