HPC Computing Resource

The High Performance Computing environment consists of high-end systems used for executing complex number crunching applications for research . Griffith users have access to the following systems:

Awoonga cluster

QRIScloud Special Offering

Gowonda cluster (deprecated)

Microsoft Azure cloud

Awoonga Cluster

Griffith has partnered with QCIF which operates the Awoonga HTC cluster (1000 cores). Griffith users can request an account on Awoonga cluster using this link to create an account on the awoonga cluster. Please click the link "Register to use Awoonga”. The number of cores available to a single job is limited to 24 on one node. It is not possible to create an MPI job using multiple nodes. Hence all mpi jobs should be limited to 24 cores on a single node. It is a Symmetric Multi Processing (SMP) system having a maximum of 24 cores per node and sharing the same memory and is managed by one operating system. The home directory and software directory is shared across all nodes.

Ref: https://www.qriscloud.org.au/support/qriscloud-documentation/92-awoonga-user-guide

In general, you have a question or problem regarding Awoonga, please raise a new QRIScloud support request by emailing support@qriscloud.org.au. For further support options, please visit https://www.qriscloud.org.au/support.

QRIScloud Special Offering

QRIScloud offers special nodes to Griffith users.

This is a large memory node named Flashlite (large memory and fast disks in a non-virtualized environment). There are GPU nodes available as well.

To request a special node, please follow this link and select "Use specialised compute"

 In general, you have a question or problem regarding special nodes on QRIScloud, please raise a new QRIScloud support request by emailing support@qriscloud.org.au. For further support options, please visithttps://www.qriscloud.org.au/support.

Ref: https://www.qriscloud.org.au/index.php/services/compute#FlashLite