TPAC offers the following HPC facilities for research purposes:

Hardware:

All systems are provided

• 100TB of DMF cache
• 70TB of SAS scratch
• 2PB of tape storage
• Fully connected via Infiniband fabric

NOTE: One node in kunanyi has 512GB RAM instead of the standard 128GB.  Jobs requesting more than 128GB of RAM will automatically be routed to a queue this node is dedicated to.

Supported Libraries / Modules:

The following is a sample of some of the modules that are installed.  Use “module avail” to view specific versions provided on the system you are using:

R
ansys
bzip2
chkfeature
curl
dot
ferret
gaussian
git
het
intel
matlab
matlab-compiler
merlin
mira
module-cvs
module-cvsblast
module-info
module-infoblender
modules
modulesbundler
mpfr
mpt
mrbayes
mvapich2_inteldavfs2
ncl
nco
neon
netcdf
null
nullgaussian
octave
openmpi
paup
pcre
perfboost
perfcatcher
perfcatchergit
pism
plink
povray
python
rsync
scirun
stacks
starccm+
structure
svn
test
udunits
use.own
use.ownkmh
valgrind
zlib

Supported usage profile:

A default user has access to up to 128 cores, and can schedule jobs into a number of queues. For further information please contact TPAC.

For users requiring more compute we recommend the following options:

• NCI (National computational infrastructure).
• Other AeRO (Australian e-Research Organisations.

If you would like to use the TPAC HPC facilities, you will need to sign up for an account, and meet the requirements outlined here.