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High Performance Computing and Research Support Group (HPC)

Bernadette Savage b.savage@qut.edu.au

x83004

Ray Duplock r.duplock@qut.edu.au

x83962

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10 minutes about us......

HPC has a small number of staff located at Gardens Point; we specialise in one of these areas:

Qualitative methods

Quantitative methods

Data modeling

Data visualisation

Data simulation

Survey Web software and support (via Key Survey)

Programming and code optimisation

Scientific software

Supercomputing resources and support

Small group, so our emphasis is to try to give you the skills and expertise to

undertake any of the above activities in your research work

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HPC services that may assist you?

• Qualitative Research Assistance (Bernadette Savage)

Qualitative research methods

Consultations

Seminars

NVivo tutorials (introductory and advanced)

Leximancer tutorials

• Quantitative Modelling (Ray Duplock)

Statistical learning algorithms (from a regression perspective -- CART,

Bagging/Boosting algorithms, LAR and Lasso regressions etc)

Statistics (regression based statistical models)

Statistical software problems [SPSS, Stata, Salford Predictive Miner]

Please note, to get access to any of the above software (e.g., NVivo, Leximancer, SPSS,

Stata etc) contact the ITS helpdesk via their Web contact form at:

http://www.ithelpdesk.qut.edu.au/ or phone x84000

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• Online Survey System -- Key Survey (Donald Gee)

This online survey tool allows you to develop and administer online surveys

Free to QUT staff and students (not for personal consultancies)

Consultations using Key Survey

Workshops (introductory and advanced)

Please note, Donald will not develop your survey – he will advise you on

software related issues if necessary

Key Survey is widely used in QUT and has supported over 2,200 active surveys and

210,000 responses. See the website http://survey.qut.edu.au

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Other services

• Mathematical modeling

• Data visualisation

• Complex programming support (this does not include SPSS

syntax scripts)

• Geographic Information Systems support

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Supercomputing Facilities at QUT

The HPC Group provides access to centrally supported supercomputing facilities for

research projects.

SGI Altix XE Cluster 212 compute nodes 3780 x 64bit Intel Xeon Cores: 127 TeraFlop Theoretical (Double Precision), 271 TeraFlop (Single

Precision) 34 TeraBytes (TB) of main memory: FDR Infini-Band interconnect between nodes and to the file

servers for fast input/output

SUSE Linux Operating System

Installed research software

HPC File Store The HPC platform also includes the HPC File Store - a fully backed-up research data storage facility with over 1800TB of disk capacity

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Software Available

SPSS SAS Stata NVivo Leximancer

Data Analysis Tools

Data Visualisation

Maya Rapidform

ANSYS CFX FLUENT

3D Modelling Environments CFD Packages

MATLAB (and SYMULINK)

ABAQUS ANSYS MSC.NASTRAN MSC.PATRAN MSC.Marc LS-DYNA

NAG & IMSL Libraries Intel Compilers and tools Graphics Libraries

Simulation Modelling Environments

Finite Element Analysis Packages Software Development Tools

AVS/Express Volume Visualisation tools VTK & ITK

Data Mining Tools Salford Predictive Miner DTREG MATLAB SAS/Enterprise Guide R modules

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HPC Visualisation Lab

• GP V711 (top floor of the Library)‏ specialised visualisation laboratory

• Range of Workstations

Dual Processor, 64bit Workstations

Range memory configurations (16GB, 24GB, 32GB)‏

Multi-screen setups, including 30”LCD‏monitors

3-D Scanners (laser and contact)‏

• Virtual Vis Lab – remote access machine to suit your needs

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Contact Details

Emails addresses

• HPC Group email: hpc-support@qut.edu.au

• Key Survey email address: survey-dec@qut.edu.au

Seminars/Workshops/Tutorials

• https://www.library.qut.edu.au/events/categories/hpc/

Web pages

• HPC web site: http://www.itservices.qut.edu.au/researchteaching/hpc/

also https://qutvirtual4.qut.edu.au/group/staff/technology-and-facilities/technology-services/hpc/

• Key Survey web site: http://survey.qut.edu.au