Other Data and Computation Resources

Spartan is just one of many research IT resources offered by The University of Melbourne, or available from other institutions.

MATLAB Distributed Compute Server (MDCS)

ResPlat offers a 256 core MDCS service for researchers. This offers a very simple way for MATLAB users to perform parallel calculations using parfor loops. Setup details are available here.

Nectar

Nectar is a national initiative to provide cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) resources to researchers. It's based on OpenStack, and allows researchers on-demand access to computation instances, storage, and a variety of application platforms and Virtual Laboratories.

Spartan runs some of it's computation resources in the Nectar cloud.

Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) VLSCI run three large HPC systems for life sciences researchers.

Multi-modal Australian ScienceS Imaging and Visualisation Environment (MASSIVE) MASSIVE is a HPC system at Monash University and the Australian Synchrotron which is optimized for imaging and visualization. It can run batched jobs, as well as provide a desktop environment for interactive work.

VicNode

VicNode provides data storage and sharing services to Victorian researchers and their collaborators. Here is a good overview of the different options/tools VicNode provide for different use cases.