Facilities
QCIF has made a strong investment in high performance computing infrastructure since its inception in 2000. QCIF's major HPC facilities are housed at, and maintained by the University of Queensland
This infrastructure includes:
- One SGI Altix (64 bit) 3700 supercomputer
- A 16 processor SGI Altix
- A StorageTek Tape robot (populated with 300 TeraByte, but with 1 Peta Byte capacity)
- SGI DMF Hierarchical Storage Management system
- SGI CXFS San (Storage Area Network)
- ViSAC - The Visualisation Laboratory at the University of Queensland
The QCIF facilities are available for use by researchers and students (through their supervisors) from within the QCIF partner institutions.
The QCIF Merit Allocation Scheme has been established to allow researchers access to the QCIF HPC facilities, located at UQ based on merit. A substantial proportion of the QCIF HPC computational resources are available for distribution under this Scheme by the QCIF CEO Advisory Committee.
For ViSAC Lab Clients
Information for clients of the ViSAC visualisation and advanced computing laboratory, including information for students and for lecturers and presenters.
Matlab installation instructions for researchers on the UQ network (licenses were funded by QCIF) .
NCI National Facility
The NCI National Facility (NF) is available for use by researchers and postgraduate students (through their supervisors) at Australian universities and the CSIRO.
The NCI NF operates on a resource share model whereby the resources of the NF systems have been allocated to NCI (for the Merit Allocation Scheme (MAS)) and other share-holders (mainly NCI partners like QCIF) in accordance with the contributions they have provided to the NF. As a result of this model, researchers granted resources under the MAS or by the partners are not charged by NCI for their use of the systems at the NF.