The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is part of the national NeCTAR Research Cloud Federation. The Pawsey Research Cloud node is housed within the state of the art Pawsey Centre, Perth, WA.

The WA NeCTAR Research Cloud features 46 IBM System X 3755 M3 servers as compute nodes. Each node has:
* 64 cores at 2.3GHz
* 256GB RAM
* 6x 10Gbps links for storage and external access
This makes a grand total of 2944 cores and 11.5TB of memory.

It also includes 31 IBM System X 3650 M4 servers as Ceph storage nodes. Each storage node has 24TB of raw SATA disk, which adds up to 216TB of ephemeral storage.