High Performance Computing

Welcome to the Monash HPC service documentation. Please select from the options at the left to get started, or see below to learn more about HPC service options at Monash.

HPC Overview

A High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster is a system made up of thousands of CPUs (along with many GPUs) with very fast networking between them. This setup is ideal for workloads that can be parallelised, that is, jobs that can be split up into smaller chunks that can be run simultaneously. Parallelising such workloads can be dramatically faster than if you were to run that same workload on your personal computer.

HPC Facilities and Expertise in Data Processing, Modelling, Simulation & Visualisation

Monash researchers have access to a range of High-performance Computing (HPC) facilities to support complex data processing, modelling, simulation and visualisation tasks. These include the Monash HPC Cluster M3 (Previously MASSIVE), the MonARCH campus cluster, and Nectar Research Cloud.

In addition, Monash eResearch has partnered with Australia’s Tier 1 Supercomputing facilities — the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) and the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre — to provide streamlined HPC access for Monash researchers. These partnerships should be seen as a complement to the National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS) which supports very large compute requests.

Each facility has its own application process and independent deadlines, so we recommend reviewing the guidelines for the resource that best suits your research needs.