High Performance Computing

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• MeRC Science Director, Prof David Abramson (Prof Faculty of IT)
• and PhD Student, Nadine D'Argent (Faculty of Arts)

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Monash Sun Grid (MSG)

The Monash Sun Grid (MSG) is Monash University’s central production-class High Performance Computing (HPC) and Data Storage facility. The first 32 nodes were established in 2005. It has been expanded annually since, funded from central Monash operational and capital development funds. The MSG supports a wide variety of Monash researchers spread across most faculties, with 80% continuous utilisation of the HPC service (and 1.3 petabytes of data storage - LaRDS).

• For access to MSG directly, via the head node, please email: merc@adm.monash.edu.au, or contact Russell Keil (ext. 54782) / Anthony Beitz (ext. 58681) / Philip Chan (ext. 20791).
• Click here for User Guide

Nimrod

• To run experiments across a range of e-Research and Faculty of Information Technology resources access Nimrod portal.  (Nimrod flyer)

*NEWS (28/3/11)    Nimrod Parameter Sweep Tools now with 'Single Sign-on' using Monash Authcate  - plus 10 day Certificates on the fly, from within Nimrod, to launch jobs:

University researchers working with parameter sweeps, optimisation and scientific workflow applications to support their work using the Nimrod Portal can now do so with ‘Shibboleth Single Sign-on’ and short-lived credentials. A version of the web portal with these capabilities has been recently rolled out, thanks to a grant from the Australian Access Federation.

- This allows Monash and external users to log on using their home institution's Identity Provider, e.g., via authcate for Monash users.

- Users may also launch jobs using short-lived credentials to the Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS) Grid. This means that users no longer need annual certificate renewals via ARCS. They instead have access to ten-day certificates on the fly from within Nimrod.

This new version was developed and is being maintained by the Monash e-Science and Grid Engineering (Message) Lab of the Faculty of Information Technology, and by the Monash e-Research Centre (MeRC). 

For registration details please visit: http://www.messagelab.monash.edu.au/Nimrod/WhereToRunNimrod

Condor

• For short jobs, which may be run in under 2.5 hours, access idle Monash workstations with Condor.

National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)

Talk to MeRC about accessing.

Please email: merc@adm.monash.edu.au, or contact Russell Keil (ext. 54782) / Anthony Beitz (ext. 58681).

Access to the MASSIVE Specialised Facility for Imaging and Visualisation (due to commence in March 2011) will be available Australia-wide through the NCI Merit Allocation Scheme (MAS): http://nci.org.au/access/merit-allocation-scheme/ .

For advice on applications please contact the Coordinator of MASSIVE:
massive-coordinator@monash.edu.

Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC)

Talk to MeRC about accessing VPAC grid networks.

Please email: merc@adm.monash.edu.au, or contact Russell Keil (ext. 54782) / Anthony Beitz (ext. 58681).

Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI)

Talk to MeRC about accessing.

Please email: merc@adm.monash.edu.au, or contact Russell Keil (ext. 54782) / Anthony Beitz (ext. 58681).