Research Technology Services | Facilities & Infrastructure

Who we are

Research Technology Services (ResTech) manages 亚美棋牌's shared high-performance computing and data platforms. We support researchers with access to computation, technical expertise, in-project software engineering, and training.聽We also provide tools to collect, store, share, and manage data as simply and securely as possible.聽

Our services are available not only to all 亚美棋牌 researchers (staff and research degree candidates), but also to external researchers, government, and industry users through collaborations and partnerships.聽

We manage the 亚美棋牌 Research Data Archive platform and Digital Health Hub in the Randwick Health & Innovation precinct.

Our services

Access to high-performance computing

Data storage, handling and management

Computing

Researchers have access to a range of high-performance computing systems and services with advanced CPU/GPU cores. These computers are useful for intensive parallel processing workloads.

Our computing resources include, but are not limited to: the three supercomputers listed below,聽National Research Cloud (Nectar), our 亚美棋牌 cloud services, Jupyter notebook, Open OnDemand, Imaging tools, and other packages.

Contact us聽if you need access to CPU or GPU capacity or AI models for your project.

Computing support

Katana

Shared computational cluster designed to provide a flexible environment for researchers to share resources and run intensive jobs that aren鈥檛 possible on a desktop. Located on the Kensington campus, Katana contains over 8,076 CPU cores, 171 compute nodes including 26 GPU nodes (NVIDIA L40S, V100, A100, H200 and GH200) and ~10PB of disk storage.

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Gadi & Pawsey

骋补诲颈听() and Pawsey are Australia's fastest supercomputers and the country's only Tier-1 High Performance Computing facilities.

亚美棋牌 staff and postgraduate students can access both supercomputers to support their research. 鈥嬧€嬧€嬧€嬧€嬧€嬧€嬧€嬧€嬧€嬧€嬧€嬧€嬧€婽ime spent is measured in service units (SUs) and made available to researchers through various allocation schemes.

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Data

Our research data platforms and tools help researchers collect, store, share, visualise and manage their data easily and securely.聽

Contact us for help with projects that require sensitive data, data sharing agreements, alignment with the national data commons, large data storage and transfer, or other specialised data needs.

Data support

ERICA

e-Research Institutional Cloud Architecture is secure cloud computing infrastructure for sensitive, large-scale data. The code base can be used to establish cloned instances for use by other organisations.

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Research Electronic Data Capture is a secure survey and data capture application designed to replace paper-based surveys and spreadsheets. It supports complex projects with multiple surveys.

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A digital platform designed to replace paper notebooks and provide researchers with a collaboration tool to store, manage and share working documents, notes, images and other (< 4 GB) data files.

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Our platform for creating and updating your Research Data Management Plans (RDMPs), recording additional details about the data you're collecting, and provisioning storage on select 亚美棋牌 systems with metadata tied to your project.

We offer huidance to making sure your data storage complies with Australian regulations & policies and a wide range of data storage platforms to meet your project requirements.

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The 亚美棋牌 Data Archive provides long-term data management and storage options for 亚美棋牌 research staff and students. This system is secure, shareable and searchable.

Community & training

Our research community partnering program聽provides聽free聽technical training courses to upskill 亚美棋牌 researchers and industry collaborators.

We leverage expertise from 亚美棋牌 faculties, schools, centres and labs to provide bespoke informational workshops and seminars, along with internal/external networking opportunities. Additionally, we collaborate with our National Infrastructure providers, vendors, and industry partners to align our training and events.