This page outlines the computational infrastructure, specialist support, and software resources available to ABLeS project teams. Quick links and how-to guides are included to help you make the most of these resources.
1. Computational resources
ABLeS projects may receive compute and storage allocations on both the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre and the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI).
| NCI | Pawsey | |
|---|---|---|
| Compute infrastructure | HPC and Cloud | |
| Temporary storage | 5 TB | 1 PB |
| Project storage | 5 TB | |
| Default service units | 50 kSUs per Quarter | |
| Specialist support | Yes | |
Notes:
- These allocations are reviewed quarterly.
- Additional resources may be granted as long as the required resources are available.
- Time frame: Software projects are limited to 6 - 12 months
About the resources available at each computational facility
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
ABLeS includes 10 million service units (SUs) of compute capacity on Setonix and flexible storage on the fast S3 based Acacia storage system. These SUs can be utilised across CPU and GPU nodes.
Centrally installed software and popular bioinformatics reference datasets are available on Pawsey. You can find more details here.
National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)
ABLeS encompasses 16 million SUs of compute capacity and 500 TB of storage available per annum on the Gadi supercomputer at the NCI. These SUs can be utilised to run jobs on different nodes of Gadi that are equipped with either CPUs or GPUs.
2. Specialist expertise
ABLeS projects can access expert support from NCI, Pawsey, and ABLeS specialists to install, develop, optimise and deploy tools and workflows.
Pawsey training
Pawsey offers a range of in-person and online trainings, workshops, and activities to help you best use Pawsey resources.
NCI training
NCI provides training resources and in-person training courses throughout the year to help develop the skills of the NCI user community.
3. Software and reference data
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
Software
There is a wide range of centrally installed software for Setonix users, including popular bioinformatics tools. More information about software on Setonix.
Setonix users can also install their choice of software on the /software partition. We also encourage usage of containers with Singularity. Users are able to download any containers they like!
Reference datasets
Popular bioinformatics reference datasets are available on Pawsey. Additional reference sets can be requested via help@pawsey.org.au
National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)
Centrally supported software: /apps
Centrally supported software available through NCI can be viewed here.
Shared repository of tools and software: project if89
All NCI users can also join the Australian BioCommons Tools and Workflows project: in project allocation if89. This is a repository of popular software tools, containers, and workflows that can be used by anyone in the NCI system.
Anyone from an NCI project is also invited to contribute to if89, and add more software installations that can be shared with others.