It is designed to offer research and development and advanced computing services to a range of sectors, including oil and gas, maritime, mining, health and bioinformatics, defence and the environment. The centre is aimed at the local, national and international markets.

One of the largest commercially based high performance computing facilities of its kind in Australia, the ISA High Performance Computing and Visualisation Centre is the result of a collaborative partnership with several leading research institutions and commercial organisations and is aimed at delivering advanced computing to the

For instance, ISA is working with IBM as their Asia Pacific Solutions Delivery Partner to deliver the recently launched Deep Computing Visualisation (DCV) software to the market. ISA is also leveraging relationships with leading research institutions, including Curtin University of Technology, Charles Darwin University, the Western Australian Interactive Virtual Environment Centre (iVEC) and the Western Australian Institute of Medical Research in the areas of geophysics, environmental modeling; architectural design, virtual prototyping and bioinformatics.

The official opening of the Centre was followed by an ‘Open Day’, featuring a several demonstrations by ISA partners, including oil field services giant Schlumberger, as well as Jumbo Vision, WBM and Fractal Technologies.

IBM’s recently released Deep Computing Visualisation software was also showcased, giving visiting dignitaries a first-hand, ‘3D’ insight into the ways in which high performance computing and visualisation can be applied to research, development and industry.

ISA Technologies, a specialised information technology company with offices in Perth and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ISA is also involved in product research and development in bioinformatics, geophysics, fluid dynamics and image processing and recognition.

As well as opening the Centre, the company also signed two memoranda of understanding today with Curtin University and with the Western Australian Interactive Virtual Environment Centre (iVEC).

The MOUs are intended to provide a strategic framework for ongoing collaboration and development of joint research and commercialisation opportunities. They are designed to further increase the Centre’s research and development capabilities.

The Centre is located in Technology Park, Bentley.