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Deep Thought - High Performance Computing (HPC)

Specialised computer power and capability for your research

Research support High performance computing (Deep Thought)

Flinders University is home to Deep Thought, the University’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) platform. High Performance Computing (HPC) is the practice of aggregating computing power in a way that delivers much higher performance than one could get out of a typical desktop computer or workstation in order to solve large problems in science, medicine, engineering, or business.

The Deep Thought platform is based onsite, and is available to all research staff at the University to service your research computing needs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Deep Thought specialises in workloads that require:

  • High performance / large scale Central Processing Units (CPU)
  • General Graphics Processing Units (GPU)
  • High Rapid Access memory (RAM).

On this page

     Things to consider  Resources  Getting started  Contact support

Things to consider

  • Do I have a large dataset to process that would be impractical to do on a single computer?
  • Do I need to undertake intensive computations to simulate or model systems or processes?
  • Do I have a structured, repeatable pipeline I use to process my dataset?
  • Do I have specific software, libraries, or modules I need to process my dataset?
  • How quickly do I need my dataset to be processed?

Resources

The Deep Thought HPC, built upon high-end Dell hardware, has the following resources available to use:

  • 17 compute nodes, totalling 1376 cores and 6.28TB of RAM combined.
  • 2 login nodes, with High-Availability failover
  • 4 V100 Nvidia TESLA GPU’s with 32GB VRAM
  • 25Gbps network connectivity.

We also host private nodes for dedicated resource usage.

Jobs are scheduled on the HPC using Simple Linux Usage Resource Manager (SLURM) and resources allocated using the “Fairshare” algorithm to ensure fair access and allocation of resources to each user and College.

Please note: These resources are only available to members of the Flinders University research community.

     Deep Thought system specifications  Deep Thought SLURM fairshare algorithm

Getting started

Whether you’re new to the concept of an HPC or you’re a veteran, we actively work on documentation to help you get the best out of the Flinders University Deep Thought HPC. Can’t find what your after? Try taking a look at the Deep Thought documentation or reaching out to support for further assistance. Please note: The Flinders University Deep Thought HPC support is offered on a 'best effort' basis by Digital Research Services. 

View the support links below to get started with Deep Thought HPC.

  • Getting access
  • Transferring files to the HPC
  • Scheduling jobs
  • Accessing / loading software
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