Monash High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities

The Monash Campus Grid (MCG)

The Monash Campus Grid (MCG) provides a variety of high-performance computing capabilities. For access contact Neil Clarke.

Ongoing development of the MCG is described here. A unified access process covering MCG, VPAC and APAC high performance computing facilities is currently being developed.

The Monash Campus Grid (MCG) high performance computing facilities currently comprise:

• Monash Sun Grid (MSG) – central Monash compute facility  
• Monash SPONGE – harvested capacity on desktop computers using CONDOR  
• VPAC Brecca facility – using Globus
• Faculty of Information Technology compute cluster facilities – using NIMROD
• Large Research Data Store (LaRDS) – central storage facility

Components of the Monash Campus Grid (MCG) can be accessed in a variety of ways:

• Login to the MSG head node
• Using Globus
• Using NIMROD (for more information on NIMROD, see here)     
• Using CONDOR

Mathematical analysis packages

Monash is currently reviewing whether it is feasible to establish a site license for MatLab.

In addition, a number of popular public domain analysis packages are available on the Monash Campus Grid:

• R 
• Octave
• Scilab

Different packages are more suitable for different purposes - for advice please contact: Philip Chan.

Statistics on the Monash Campus Grid can be obtained here (login required): http://www.monash.edu.au/eresearch/services/mcg/mcg-stats.