Computational resources
ABLes computational resources are allocated to each project quarterly and additional resources can be requested by each project’s bioinformatics lead.
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.
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.
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Specialist expertise
ABLeS projects are supported by NCI, Pawsey and ABLeS specialists to install, develop, optimise and deploy tools and workflows.
Available 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 at Pawsey
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
Users at NCI also have access to the Australian BioCommons Tools and Workflows project, in project allocation if89. This is a repository of popular 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.
Details are available here.
Resource summary
| ABLeS Resources | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resource | Reference Data | Production Bioinformatics | Software Accelerator | |||
| NCI | Pawsey | NCI | Pawsey | NCI | Pawsey | |
| Compute infrastructure |
HPC and Cloud | |||||
| Temporary storage |
5 TB | 1 PB | 5 TB | 1 PB | 5 TB | 1 PB |
| Project storage |
5 TB | 5 TB | 5 TB | |||
| Default service units |
100 kSUs per Quarter | 50 kSUs per Quarter | 10 kSUs per Quarter | |||
| Time frame | Ongoing | 6-12 months | ||||
| Specialist support |
Yes | |||||
| Additional resources |
Yes | Yes if the previous usage is > 60% |
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