CSIRO-NCI Cluster
Solutions through collaboration
A compute cluster and storage environment is being established to meet the needs of the Australian researcher (which researcher/team/body?). Features include:
- Integrated workflow management environment as well as command line access
- Algorithms can be tested in a dedicated area in conjunction with the QFAB team prior to release on the cluster
- Datasets (mirrored using SRS) are made available for comparative analyses
- Standard analysis tools as well as specific tools as requested by users
This high performance cluster, supported by the National Computational Institute, Queensland Cyber Research Foundation, University of Queensland and CSIRO, has a blend of software applications including open source and proprietary. It incorporates a heterogeneous environment of multiple small nodes as well as larger nodes with 0.5 terabyte RAM for those computationally intensive investigations.
The system is expected to be available in early 2010. Until then, QFAB is supporting a smaller cluster for use by CSIRO as an interim solution. It includes a web interface where users can lodge jobs and see the progress through the system.
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