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Research Infrastructure at Monash

Monash is involved in the establishment of major research infrastructure facilities within the Clayton campus and Clayton Innovation Precinct.

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Australian Synchrotron

Monash is a co-investor in the Australian Synchrotron. The Australian Synchrotron provides experimental workstations (‘beam-lines’) for a diverse range of applications:

  • The Australian Synchrotron will also provide a virtual beam-line capability for remote participation.

For further information please visit Monash Centre for Synchrotron Science. 

Monash electron microscopy facility (MCEM)

Monash has established a major electron microscopy centre in a new (purpose-built) building at Clayton Campus. 

For further information please visit Monash Centre for Electron Microscopy.

Monash optical microscopy facility (MMI)

Monash also has a comprehensive optical microscopy facility which provides consultation, instrumentation, services and training, collaborative research and project development in the areas of:

  • Optical and fluorescence microscopy
  • Confocal microscopy
  • Live cell imaging
  • Transmission electron microscopy
  • Scanning electron microscopy
  • Cryo methods for tissue preparation
  • Digital imaging and image analysis

The Director of MMI, Dr Ian Harper, recently installed a 16-panel OptiPortal high resolution display wall for visualising detailed microscopy images. The slide below was produced by Ian Boundy, the Lab Manager and Histologist in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Monash.

OptiPortal - Clayton campus

(The Faculty of IT has installed a 16-panel OptiPortal at the Monash Caulfield Campus.)

For further information please visit Monash Micro Imaging.

 

Monash petabyte data store (LaRDS)

Petabyte data storage facility

Monash has a petabyte data storage facility to house and preserve large research data sets from these major research facilities and other research activities at Monash.  The facility is separate from Monash’s corporate data store. Current capacity is:

  • 250 TB high performance FC SATA on-line disk plus
  • 1.3 PB near-line tape robot library

LaRDS tape library currently has storage capacity for 2.2 PB.  The facility can grow to many times this size over time.

For further information please visit LaRDS.

High performance computing (HPC) and the Monash Campus Grid (MCG)

Monash presently has the following HPC facilities:

  • The Monash Sun Grid, a high-performance Linux cluster with over 900 CPU cores running on a gigabit network; and

  • The SPONGE Condor pool, a high-throughput system utilising the idle CPU cycles from 450-500 Windows PCs across student laboratories across four campuses.

For further information please visit MCG.

Monash researchers also have access to NCI, VPAC and VLSCI high performance computing services. To discuss and arrange access please email: merc@adm.monash.edu.au, or contact Russell Keil (ext. 54782) / Anthony Beitz (ext. 58681).