The University’s Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) will be home to one of Australia’s fastest supercomputers and the world’s greenest supercomputer, the IBM Blue Gene/Q.

The University will be home to the world’s first IBM Research and Development Centre.

The lab – which will engage with researchers from the University, CSIRO, National ICT Australia (NICTA) and Australian business - will begin operating during the first quarter of 2011.  IBM expects to employ about 150 people, including 38 PhD students, within five years.