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What is the University's High Performance Computing Service?

Owned by Stephen Kolmann
Last updated: Jul 22, 2019
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The University of Sydney provides its researchers with on-demand access to a High Performance Computing (HPC) service to enable high quality research as part of our investment in building research infrastructure capacity.


This service is fully funded by the University with no charge to end users. This service is complementary to existing peak HPC facilities and integrates with the University’s Research Data Store (RDS).

The HPC service provides:

  • A solution responsive to the University research community
  • Improved access to research computing resources and expertise for researchers; and
  • Improved collaboration between research groups by providing a common set of tools and capabilities with consistent access mechanisms

The University's local system is called Artemis and consists of 4264 cores of capacity, including two high-memory (512 GB) nodes, three very high-memory nodes (6TB) and five high-end GPU nodes.

Allocations for the use of the HPC service are project based.  A researcher who belongs to one or more projects may have one or more HPC allocations subject to individual research projects. You can gain access to the Artemis HPC service by creating a project in Researcher Dashboard (DashR) with Artemis HPC access.