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High performance computing

A number of high performance computing options are availble for Research staff and students at the Faculty of Engineering.

BC727 - Engineering Faculty's Beowulf Cluster. (http://bc727.eng.monash.edu.au/ *)
*Access restricted to engineering subnets

The Faculty of Engineering's ECMS together with the FLAIR group, Mechanical Engineering operates a beowulf cluster exclusively for Engineering staff and students. The Engineering cluster is designed to utilise the processing power of computers in labs during after hours 7am - 7pm. The are also a number of dedicated PC on racks which are dedicated to run 24 hours.
MSG - Monash Sun Grid (http://www.monash.edu.au/eresearch/activities/msg.html)
The Monash Sun Grid is a high-performance compute facility ideally suited to development of tasks prior to dispatch to VPAC/APAC, or for tasks that those external compute facilities are not well suited to.

The Monash Sun Grid was commissioned in April 2005 to meet the needs of high-end compute researchers within Monash
VPAC - Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (http://www.vpac.org)

VPAC's mission is to provide independent expert services, training and support in Advanced Computing to its Members, industry and other organisations. VPAC provides professional R&D services in the application of advanced computing in the fields of Computational Engineering, Computational Software Development, Geospatial Sciences, Grid Computing and Life Sciences to assist Members, industry and other organisations to create innovations in research and development.
NCI - National Computational Infrastructure (formerly APAC - Australian Partnership for advanced computing) (http://nf.nci.org.au/)

NCI is supported by the Systemic Infrastructure Initiative as part of the Australian Government's Backing Australia's Ability program, administered through the Department of Education, Science and Training.

Its role is to contribute to the advanced computing, communications and information infrastructure (eResearch) for Australia's research communities.