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Western Research Cloud(Intersect)

Hawkesbury Institute MARCS School of Computing

Specialised Campus Support

Approval

CentralIT

CentralResearch

MembershipManagement & Funding

Research Support

Group

Fortnightly report received from Intersect

At Research Support Group: - Discuss candidates for review- Assign action to relevant

eResearch Analyst to talk to researcher

If researcher confirms allocation can be deleted, then eResearch Analyst raises ticket with Intersect.

Intersect delete the relevant storage or compute products, returning that allocation to the pool

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Research Institutes

Schools

ITDS

Research Support Group

Hint: This is where the magic is.

Problem:

HPC user > 1 million SU/year

Approx 30% spent on testing and debugging

A standard practice for many years

Solution

16 core project setup with Intersect assistance to replicate HPC environment

Result

Now all HPC runs are production runs

Problem

Historically, long wait times to access IT resources

Led to researchers going and ‘doing their own thing’

Solution

Institute based resources for ready consumption

Result

Environments available within 30 minutes

Problem

Time wasted by researchers transferring data

10-40gb required to be download daily

Average time wasted 1 – 1 ½ hours

Solution

Move analysis into Western Research Cloud and connected to data

Result

No more downloads required. Analysis could be performed ‘live’

Problem

A need for real time 3d analysis for image manipulation

Western Research Cloud has no current internal capability to provide GPU access

Solution

A 3-way workflow between Intersect, Azure (GPU provider) and Platform9 (Integrator of cloud platforms)

Result

A real time 3d analysis system was realized and is available for future re-use.

Image Credit: Alice Gauthey

Western Research Cloud(Western Sydney University)

Research Cloud Computing Service

Hawkesbury Institute

MARCS

School of Computing

School of Medicine

Intersect Interconnect

• Working together with Intersect to design a secure integration between the WRC and some key University services

• Better Identity Management

• Windows Licensing

• Western Research Cloud has dramatically lowered the barriers to entry for researchers

• A genuinely researcher-centric service offering from central IT

• By using the WRC we heave learned a lot about requirements for Research at Western – including where the gaps are.