Research computing

UNE researchers have access to a number of remote and local computing facilities, with a choice between parallel processing for maximum performance, cloud computing for horizontal scale, or dedicated hosting for domain-specific applications.

High performance computing and parallel processing

National HPC

Via the University's membership with Intersect Australia, UNE researchers have access to the nation's peak high performance computing facility the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI).

Gadi is NCI's newest supercomputer which has 7 times the computational performance of its predecessor Raijin. Gadi contains:

  • 155,000 CPU cores,
  • 567 TBytes of memory,
  • 640 GPUs

Local  HPC

The School of Science and Technology at UNE has a number of local high-performance computing (HPC) facilities for advanced research in computational sciences. These clusters are designed for carrying out large-memory and data-intensive applications involved in computational chemistry, biology, and ‘big data’ research.

For more information, please contact Norman Gaywood (ngaywood@une.edu.au) or Amir Karton (amir.karton@une.edu.au).

Cloud computing

National Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is the delivery of on-demand computing resources. With cloud computing, you can  quickly take advantage of powerful computing and large-scale storage without the need for specialised IT knowledge. Researchers can build and use software tools, process, share and analyse data, or host online research applications.

UNE, through Intersect, offers two compute clouds designed for research:

  • NeCTAR Research Cloud provides small to medium-sized Virtual Machines (VMs) that are more suited to less compute-intensive research applications.
  • Intersect OwnTime provides larger VMs for more compute-intensive applications.

To set up your project on Gadi or for more information, contact UNE's eResearch Analyst.

Local Cloud Computing

Some specialized applications can be run in a Virtual Machine provided TDS.

Contact the TDS service desk for further information.