CSIRO Computing History, Appendix 2: Organisations

By September 6th, 2019

These pages attempt to give some of the history of CSIRO’s use of computing in its research, focussing mainly on the large shared systems and services.

Last updated: 10 Nov 2020.
Robert C. Bell

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  • CSIR –
    Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – 1926-1949
  • CSIRO –
    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 1949-present
  • CSIR Division of Radiophysics –
    CSIR Division of Radiophysics – 1939-1949
  • University of Melbourne
  • CSIRO Computing Research Section – 1963-1967
  • CSIRO Division of Computing Research – 1967-1984
  • CSIRONET/Csironet – 1985-1990
  • Paxus/IDAPS – 1985-1990
  • Advanced Computing Support Group – c 1985-1990
  • Supercomputing Facilities Task Force – 1989-90
  • Leading Edge Technologies – <1990-1992
  • Joint Supercomputing Facility – 1990-1992
  • Supercomputing Support Group – 1990-
  • CSIRO Supercomputing Facility – 1992-1997
  • Cray Research – 1990-2004
  • StorageTek (and successors Sun and Oracle)- 1993-present
  • NEC – 1997-2010
  • Bureau of Meteorology – 1997-2015
  • Bureau of Meteorology/CSIRO High Performance Computing and Communications Centre (HPCCC) – 1997-2015
  • High Performance Scientific Computing – 2003-2008
  • SGI – 2004-present
  • Advanced Scientific Computing from 4th February 2008 to 2013
  • IM&T Scientific Computing – Services and Platforms from October 2013

 

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