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About VPAC

VPAC, a leading, independent Advanced Computing R&D service provider, is a not for profit registered research agency established in 2000 by a consortium of Victorian Universities:

At VPAC, we provide expert services, training and support in Advanced Computing as well as professional R&D services in the application of Advanced Computing in the fields of Engineering, Geophysics, Health, Life Sciences, Spatial Information and Grid Computing.

Our aim is to help Australian researchers utilise Advanced Computing to create innovations that will place Australia at the forefront of scientific research and development.

Advanced Computing refers to any application of computing that is outside the scope of traditional "off the shelf" or "packaged" applications such as email, spreadsheets, word processing, and accounting packages. Examples of Advanced Computing in R&D include:

  • Large-scale computational models and simulations for scientific and engineering research
  • Development and support of custom databases for life science research
  • Development of specialised web portals to host and access research data
  • Visualisation software and hardware for scientific research.

To support the use of Advanced Computing amongst Australian researchers, VPAC operates a state of the art, internationally recognised Supercomputing Facility featuring High Performance Computing Clusters and Software, Advanced Visualisation and Collaboration Tools and Grid Resources.

VPAC is QMS ISO 9001:2000 certified (Certification Number A/95445), ensuring our quality management system is working efficiently and meets international standards of excellence.

VPAC is a Registered Research Agency (Registration Number 40150). A Registered Research Agency (RRA) is an organisation approved by the Industry Research and Development Board that is capable of carrying out contracted Australian R&D in one or more classes of activity on behalf of eligible companies, or through collaborative arrangements for a group of companies. For companies dealing with VPAC, this means that expenditure for Australian R&D work contracted to VPAC may be eligible for the full 150% tax deduction in the year of income, irrespective of the annual R&D expenditure of the claimant.