Alarm over Australia’s lack of supercomputing

Australia has no plans for an exascale computer—and researchers are worried

Christian Jakob would like to run his climate models at a computational spatial resolution of 1km—the holy grail of climate research today—and match the ambitions now being established at leading climate centres across the world.

“But we can’t do this,” he says. “Right now in Australia we are way off in terms of the computation available to us.”