AusSRC - Pawsey
Technical specifications
Overview
The Australian SKA Regional Centre will be working with the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre to support one (1) local team.
Technical specifications
The resources are allocated by Pawsey's Nimbus cloud platform with the following specifications:
Software - OpenStack
virtual cluster with 20x128GB/32vCPU compute nodes
shared file system 5TB
Per user resource
all of the above will be available to 1 team
Software installed
OpenStack, SURM, PostgreSQL, VO TAP, Apache Web
Volume of resource
We can support 1 team maximum, located in Australia.
GPUs if any
no
User access
Logging in
Users will be given accounts to SoFiAX platform.
How to run a workflow
Through SoFiAX portal https://github.com/AusSRC/SoFiAX
Accessing the data cube
Through SoFiAX portal
Software management
All software is in github repositories and deployed as containers https://github.com/AusSRC/SoFiAX_services
Containerisation
https://github.com/AusSRC/SoFiAX
Documentation
In the corresponding github repositories and AusSRC Confluence
Resource management
N/A
Support
AusSRC JIRA and github
Credits and acknowledgements
If the team used AusSRC/Pawsey resource in their publication, they are required to produce an acknowledgement:
This work was supported by the Australian SKA Regional Centre and Pawsey Supercomputing Centre (Federal grant SKA75597)
Summary
Resources per team: VM instance with SoFiAX deployed, virtual cluster with 20x128GB/32vCPU compute nodes, shared file system 5TB.
Resource Access: SoFiAX portal accounts
Data cube access: The dataset will be copied onto a persistent volume mounted as a shared file system
Resource management: N/A
Software management: All the software has been containerised, available through the tires of repositories and deployable on any platform.
Documentation: Documentation will be available on https://aussrc.atlassian.net/ site.
Support: Team members will be able to rise JIRA tickets to AusSRC as DC2 project
Resource location: Australia