Research computing

The University of Wollongong offers Partner Share access to Australia’s fastest supercomputer, Gadi, as part of the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) Collaboration Agreement. The UOW Partner Share serves as the university’s computational cluster.

UOW researchers are also encouraged to apply for competitive time on NCI resources through the National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS). Researchers may use the UOW Partner Share to benchmark their code to strengthen NCMAS applications. The UOW HPC Steering Committee can provide feedback on applications before submission.

Access & support

Applications for HPC resources

Academic staff (for new and existing projects)

  • Applications are welcome, and are governed by the UOW HPC Steering Committee.
  • Requests for access are initially reviewed by the HPC Steering Committee Chair and the Research Services Office
  • They are endorsed by the full HPC Steering Committee at meetings throughout the year

Current students

  • Applications are welcome
  • Proposed projects must be led by an established academic staff member (post-doc equivalent or higher)

Resources

Staff and students can find information on the UOW and NCI Partner Share Scheme NCI on UOW's NCI HPC resources page (Internal)

Upcoming deadlines

Compute and storage requests

  • Q4 2023 - 29 September 2023
  • Q1 2024 - 22 January 2024
  • Q2 2024 - 27 March 2024
  • Q3 2024 - 26 June 2024
  • Q4 2024 - 25 September 2024 

HPC support

Operational HPC support requests (e.g. queue issues, compilation failures, application/library installation requests etc.) are processed by our support partner, NCI.