Within the Super Science initiatives announced in the federal government's most recent budget, several funding allocations have been made to PfC related activities. These are very substantial given the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NSRIS) investment in PfC was $82M over the four financial years 2007-20011.

In total, a further $312M has been allocated across the four financial 
years 2009-2013.

This will provide:

• $130M into HPC, extending the current National Facility to the petaflop scale, establishing a second national centre in Perth, also likely to be in the petaflop range, and we note Melbourne has a third such centre. Overall, Australia can plan on an aggregate capability of 2-3 petflops, 3 years from now.
• $97M into data storage and collaboration infrastructure, to build on and build out the collaboration services, data fabric and cloud computing initiatives under way in ARCS, and through ARCS to support other activities such as the AAF as required. This s a major initiative, particularly as the cost of storage is included.
• $48M to rapidly advance the development of the Australian Data Commons, working through ANDS but obviously engaging the research sector more broadly.
• $37M to achieve a dedicated high capability connectivity (10Gbps and above) between all major research centres, research related assets and PfC related research service providers.

A variety of other investments have also been announced across other 
NCRIS Capabilities and more broadly for the research sector..