The Business School maintains a high performance computing cluster for use by staff and research degree students within the School for undertaking complex computational research. The cluster is composed of four Helios nodes all running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7. The cluster was established in 2009. The Helios nodes were upgraded to their current configuration in February 2020. The cluster has been configured to meet the specific demands of Business School researchers who are working on research projects with large data sets which are memory and storage intensive. The cluster has also been configured to meet current and future demands of Business School researchers who are undertaking research involving machine learning and deep learning models.The configuration of the Helios nodes are as follows:

Nodes 1 to 3:

2 x Intel Xeon 6252 2.1 GHz 24 cores 35.75 MB L3 Cache (Max Turbo Freq. 3.7 GHz, Min 2.8 GHz)
384 GB 2933 MHz ECC DDR4-RAM (Six Channel)
2 x 1.8 TB 10,000 RPM SAS II Hard Drives (Raid 1) and 6 x 1.8 TB 10,000 RPM SAS II Hard Drives (Raid 10)
2 x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 (3072 Cores, 384 Tensor Cores, 16 GB Memory) (GPU)

Node 4:

2 x Intel Xeon 6252 2.1 GHz 24 cores 35.75 MB L3 Cache (Max Turbo Freq. 3.7 GHz, Min 2.8 GHz)
768 GB 2933 MHz ECC DDR4-RAM (Six Channel)
2 x 1.8 TB 10,000 RPM SAS II Hard Drives (Raid 1) and 6 x 1.8 TB 10,000 RPM SAS II Hard Drives (Raid 10)
2 x NVIDIA Quadro GV100 (5120 Cores, 640 Tensor Cores, 32 GB Memory) (GPU)

Staff have access to a range of software on the cluster including Fortran and C compilers as well as Mathematica, Matlab, OX, SAS, Stata/MP, SAS, R, SPSS and IMSL Fortran numerical libraries. The clusters are configured for undertaking parallel processing computations with either LAM or MPICH and also have GPU units available in each of the Helios nodes. Click here to find more detailed information on the cluster.

Staff also have access to a range of other high performance computing resources through the following institutions.

  • Intersect High Performance Computing Infrastructure - Intersect Australia Ltd is the eResearch services organisation in NSW. Intersect is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee, established by its founding members to provide eResearch services and solutions. Intersect’s establishment was funded through a $2.8 million grant from the NSW State Government. UTS was a founding member.
  • NeCTAR (National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources) - NeCTAR is an Australian Government project to build new infrastructure specifically for the needs of Australian researchers. NeCTAR is a $47 million dollar, Australian Government project, conducted as part of the Super Science initiative and financed by the Education Investment Fund.
  • National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)