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Overview of Research Computing Infrastructure at UQ and in Australia

There are a range of world-class computing systems available to UQ School of Mathematics and Physics researchers.

School of Mathematics and Physics

The School of Mathematics and Physics also has a dedicated HPC system maintained by ITS sysadmins.

• Getafix is the newest iteration of the SMP cluster, accessed via getafix.smp.uq.edu.au or smp-login-1.its.hpc.net.uq.edu.au
• Getafix includes all of the previous CPU nodes that were on dogmatix, including the former standalone GPU clusters asterix and ghost.

ITS

Responsible for all of the Schools across the University. The resources specifically allocated for SMP research computing cluster.

UQ Research Computing Centre

UQ researchers have access to a wide range of shared computational resources through the Research Computing Centre (RCC), including high performance computing, data storage, and cloud computing.

• Tinaroo is a traditional high performance computing cluster for broad research use across UQ. Tinaroo is focused on tightly coupled parallel jobs to undertake tasks requiring a very large number of computer cores to be applied to a given problem at the same time.
• Wiener is a purpose-built high-performance cluster tailored towards imaging-intensive science and GPU accelerated computing.
• MASSIVE
• QRIScloud - The Queensland Node for NeCTAR and RDSI. Several QCIF services are available. This includes compute specific systems through virtual machines.

The RCC offer regular training events for new users, see https://rcc.uq.edu.au/training

QCIF Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation

QCIF (the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation) provides the high-performance services, infrastructure and support for academic and commercial HPC users in Queensland.

QCIF has a collection of self-guided training resources, mainly in high-performance computing, which can be accessed at: https://www.qcif.edu.au/training/training-resources/

NCI National Computational Infrastructure

The federally-funded National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) operates Gadi, the fastest supercomputer in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere (as of December 2020).

Gadi is a 3,200-node supercomputer, comprising the latest generation Intel Cascade Lake and Nvidia V100 processors. Gadi supports diverse workloads with over 9 petaflops of peak performance, containing a total of 155,000 CPU cores, 567 Terabytes of memory and 640 GPUs.

250 million service units on Gadi (NCI) are available for competitive access via the National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme. UQ has an additional 25 million service units available to UQ researchers; and QCIF has a further 5.7 million service units.

Email the getafix list (smp-hpc@lists.science.uq.edu.au) to get some advice.