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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">Is your desktop not quite enough to run your latest code? Are servers at your university over-subscribed but you don't have the time to apply for time on a supercomputing facility?
Or maybe you want more control and/or ready access to the outside world? Then an OpenStack cloud virtual machine may be for you. Your free alternative to AWS and Azure. With dedicated support. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">In 2020 Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL) and Swinburne University of Technology announced a partnership to provide dedicated astronomy access on the Swinburne cell within the
NeCTAR Cloud network. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">The resources available for dedicated astronomy use consist of 2,000 virtual CPUs, with attachable volume storage and advanced networking (e.g. DNS zones, floating IP addresses,
virtual routers), utilised via the <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">OpenStack</span> cloud computing platform. VMs can be provisioned in a variety of different 'flavours' to accommodate a broad spectrum of workflows. Single VMs will
typically comprise up to 8 or 16 virtual CPUs and 16 or 32 GB RAM (although larger sizes are possible upon request as is GPU access). </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">Support for the usage of these resources is provided from within the Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS) team at Swinburne. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">We are keen to facilitate your usage of these resources and have a range of help options available. </span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Extensive user documentation is available at: </span></p>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Z9C2CROND2uvDy3gmc9YrMc?domain=supercomputing.swin.edu.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">https://supercomputing.swin.edu.au/rcdocs/</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">with information on how to get started and customised astronomy interfaces that can be utilised. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">Earlier this year we ran a training session that covered: </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">- a general introduction to cloud computing and <span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">OpenStack</span>; </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">- a demonstration on setting up a simple virtual machine (VM); </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">- a brief overview of some other possible, more advanced, workflows. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">The recording of this session is available at:
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Cx_8CVARKgCxnzpPwtzIDd_?domain=adacs.org.au/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">https://adacs.org.au/project/openstack-training-session-2021/</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">and provides a great starting point. </span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">We can also take questions via </span><span style="color: black;"><a href="mailto:openstack@adacs.org.au"><span style="">openstack@adacs.org.au</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"> at any point to assist with any queries
you may have, e.g. to discuss if a use case that you have in mind is applicable. Providing targeted sessions for your research group or department is also an option. Just get in touch. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">Note that it is envisaged that these resources will be of interest to small-job use cases that do not require the full blown infrastructure of a high-performance computing (HPC)
facility and/or will benefit from the flexibility of working outside of a HPC environment. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">Why would you want to use an OpenStack VM? </span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">Because you want the flexibility of setting up your own environment. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">Because you are tired of hitting walltime limits on your regular HPC system and want to be able to run your jobs when you like and for as long as you like. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">Because you want to be able to readily share data with collaborators. </span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size:11.5pt">However, there is currently no restriction on use case and we are keen to see how this resource can be of benefit to a variety of astronomy workflows.
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">All the best, </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">David & Jarrod</span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: black;">ADACS is a collaboration between Swinburne University of Technology and Curtin University. It is funded under the Astronomy National Collaborative Research Infrastructure
Strategy (NCRIS) Program via Astronomy Australia Ltd (AAL).</span></i><br>
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