Queensland's not-for-profit high performance computing provider has just completed the addition of 1500 new cores to its sunshine state facility, to keep up with increasingly data-hungry research fields like genomics. The Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) provides high-performance compute and storage services to researchers within the six major Queensland universities. Chief executive Rob Cook said the amount of data that needs to be crunched by large computing projects in fields such as genomics is growing exponentially and is showing no signs of abating. The rapid expansion has led QCIF to recently add 1500 additional processor cores to its research cloud, which also forms a node of the national Nectar federated infrastructure. Find out more at http://www.itnews.com.au/news/queensland-research-cloud-boosts-hpc-arsenal-420274