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	Department of Earth Sciences The University of Queensland

	Newsflash In 2001, QUAKES coordinated a successful bid to establish a new major national research facility, the Australian Computational Earth Systems Simulator or ACcESS pronounced "access", to serve the national earth systems science community.
	The Queensland University Advanced Centre for Earthquake Studies (QUAKES) is a world-class research centre investigating the physics of earthquakes through the use of computer simulations. QUAKES performs fundamental geophysical research with the aim of developing comprehensive methodologies for forecasting earthquakes and to improve understanding of the earthquake mechanism. As the headquarters of the APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation (ACES), QUAKES is leading advances in geophysical simulation in collaboration with institutions in China, Japan, USA, and Australia. Researchers at QUAKES are developing computer models for the entire earthquake process, from the microscopic physics within fault zones, to the macroscopic physics of interacting fault systems. The simulation techniques developed have applications in a wide range of industrial and environmental domains. Infrastructure at the centre includes high performance Silicon Graphics workstations, a portable seismograph array, and one of the fastest supercomputers in Australia - the Australian Solid Earth Simulator (ASES) thematic national parallel supercomputer facility for solid earth simulation - a 172.8 GFlops SGI Altix 3000. In 2001, QUAKES led a successful national bid to establish a new Major National Research Facility under the Federal government's MNRF scheme, the Australian Computational Earth Systems Simulator (ACcESS), which is pronounced "acess".

Newsflash

In 2001, QUAKES coordinated a successful bid to establish a new major national research facility, the Australian Computational Earth Systems Simulator or ACcESS pronounced "access", to serve the national earth systems science community.

The Queensland University Advanced Centre for Earthquake Studies (QUAKES) is a world-class research centre investigating the physics of earthquakes through the use of computer simulations. QUAKES performs fundamental geophysical research with the aim of developing comprehensive methodologies for forecasting earthquakes and to improve understanding of the earthquake mechanism. As the headquarters of the APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation (ACES), QUAKES is leading advances in geophysical simulation in collaboration with institutions in China, Japan, USA, and Australia. Researchers at QUAKES are developing computer models for the entire earthquake process, from the microscopic physics within fault zones, to the macroscopic physics of interacting fault systems. The simulation techniques developed have applications in a wide range of industrial and environmental domains. Infrastructure at the centre includes high performance Silicon Graphics workstations, a portable seismograph array, and one of the fastest supercomputers in Australia - the Australian Solid Earth Simulator (ASES) thematic national parallel supercomputer facility for solid earth simulation - a 172.8 GFlops SGI Altix 3000. In 2001, QUAKES led a successful national bid to establish a new Major National Research Facility under the Federal government's MNRF scheme, the Australian Computational Earth Systems Simulator (ACcESS), which is pronounced "acess".


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