1.1 An Overview of the Systems Available
The main resources available to members of the ACCS are summarised below. Details on how to obtain and access accounts can be browsed using the menu at the left of this screen.| Location |
Access
Available to: |
Resources
Available |
| The High Performance Computing Facility at the University
of Queensland |
All UQ Staff and Students |
• Ozone (64 processor SGI
Origin 3000 computer and a 20 Terabyte storage system) • two SGI Altix 3000 systems, one with 64 and one with 16 processors |
| Maths (UQ) |
Staff and students of the School of Physical Sciences
and IMB |
“HOUND” – Sun Cluster (127 x 600 MHz Sun NetraX1,
33 x dual Intel 800 MHz) |
| IMB (UQ) |
IMB staff and students, and persons with research
linked to IMB |
• IBM Linux Cluster - 28
nodes each with dual 4GHz Opteron processor and 4GB memory • IBM p690 Regatta - 16 processors (1.3 GHz), 48 GB RAM |
| APAC National Facility (Australian National University,
Canberra) |
APAC members (Australian Partnership for Advanced
Computing)– basically any UQ member conducting publishable research |
• 127 x AlphaServer SC45.
Each AlphaServer SC45 contains 4 x Aplpha-EV68 1.25 GHz processor. • 150 node Linux Cluster. Each node contains 2.66 GHz Pentium 4 with 1 GByte ram |
All of the above resources can be accessed through SSH (secure shell). The following sections detail the above systems and describe how to gain accounts and access. Section 1.3 describes how to download, configure and use SSH for users not currently familiar with this protocol.