The first internationally-recognised Gravitational Wave Data Centre (GWDC) in Australia was officially established in 2019. The GWDC is hosted at Swinburne University of Technology alongside the Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS) team that has been providing a generalised data and computing service to the national astronomy community from early 2017.

The primary aims of the GWDC are to provide the infrastructure, training and support to enable gravitational wave researchers nationally to lead the discovery of events from the latest data on an international scale and to maximise the scientific impact of these discoveries. Data coverage includes the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (aLIGO) and Virgo detectors as well as pulsar timing data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and precursor facilities. Events range from close binary coalescences to gravitational waves from supermassive black holes with live streaming of data to optimised supercomputing facilities in Australia to enable real-time detections.

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