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July 30, 2021 The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) cloud supercomputing facility is designed to help more researchers and students within RMITs industry hubs including Industry 4.0, advanced manufacturing, space, fintech, digital health, and creative technologies to innovate beyond the limitations of on-premises HPC infrastructure and accelerate time-to-science.

The cloud supercomputing facility will use AWS to provide elastic, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure forresearchers and students within RMITs industry hubs including Industry 4.0, advanced manufacturing, space,fintech, digital health, and creative technologiesto run high performance computing (HPC) applications with seamless access.

Workloads such as genomic sequencing, autonomous vehicle simulations, and atmospheric modelling are often too large to run using traditional servers. HPC on AWS provides virtually unlimited compute capacity that meets the infrastructure requirements of almost any application, allowing researchers to process huge volumes of data to help solve some of the worlds most complex challenges in far less time from disease prevention, extreme weather forecasting, and citizen safety.

RMIT will leverage AWSDirect Connectwhichenables customers to have low latency, secure and private connections to AWS for workloads which require higher speed or lower latency than the internet.The increased bandwidthwill giveresearchers, students, staff, andindustrypartnersthe ability to experiment and test new ideasand discoveriesinvolvinglarge data setsat speed, fast-tracking the time between concept andproducts thatRMITare ready to take to market.

RMIT will also collaborate withtelecommunicationsprovider,AARNet, which will providehigh-speedinternet and communicationservices,andglobal technology company,Intel,foritsadvanced technology solutionsto process, optimise,store,and movelarge, complicateddata sets.

RMITDeputy Vice-Chancellor (STEMCollege) andVice President Digital Innovation,ProfessorAleksandarSubicsaid the facility, supported by theVictorian Government Higher Education Investment Fund,is a pioneering example of innovation in theuniversitysector.

Ourcollaborationwith AWS, Intel,and AARNET toestablishAustralias firstcloudsupercomputing facilityrepresents a step change in how universities and industriesaccessHPCcapabilitiesfor advanced data processing and computing,Subic said.

Byleveraging AWS Direct Connect,RMITis set toaccess tremendous HPC processing powerusing a unique service modelthat provides seamless access to allourstaff, researchers, and students.

Ourindustry partnerswill also haveaccess to thenewcloudsupercomputing facility through joint projects and programs.

The facility will be operated by our researchers and studentsin another example that shows how industryengagement and work integrated learning are in our DNA.

AWSDirector andCountryLeaderfor Worldwide Public Sectorin Australia and New Zealand, Iain Rouse,said AWS helps researchersquickly analyse massive amounts of data, and share their results with collaborators around the world.

With access to the broadest and deepest portfolio of cloud services, RMIT can innovate beyond the limitations of on-premisescomputing,and keep up with scientific advancesworldwide.

We are proud to support ground-breaking research initiatives in collaboration with RMIT,which is set to enable researchers, students, and industry acrossabroadrange of sectorstodesign solutions and bring them to market sooner, all of which wouldnt be possible at the speed and scale without the elasticity of the cloud.

AARNetCEO Chris Hancock saidAARNethad provided RMIT and other Australian universities with leading-edge telecommunications services to enable transformational research outcomes for decades.

Weve also been connecting researchers to the cloud for many years, but nothing on this scale, he said.

Were excited to be partnering with RMIT on this project that uses our ultra-fast network to remove the barrier of geography and distance for research across Australia and beyond.

RMITs newSchool of Computing Technologies, a centre for digital innovation, world-class research, and education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, launched earlier this year. The centre will support the development and operation of the cloud supercomputer, building on its sector-leading capabilities in cloud technologies.

Source: Amelia Harris, RMIT

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RMIT to Implement Dedicated Cloud Supercomputing Facility on AWS to Boost Research Capabilities - HPCwire