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MonARCH (Monash Advanced Research Computing Hybrid) is the next-generation HPC/HTC Cluster, designed from the ground up to address the emergent and future needs of the Monash HPC community.

Through the use of advanced cloud technology, MonARCH is able to configure and grow dynamically. As with any HPC cluster, MonARCH presents a single point-of-access to computational researchers to run calculations on its constituent servers.

MonARCH aims to continually develop over time. Currently, it consists of the following servers

Name	CPU	Number of Cores / Server	Usable Memory / Server	Notes
mi*	Xeon-Gold 6150 @ 2.70GHz	36	158893MB
hi*	Xeon-Gold 6150 @ 2.70GHz	27	131000MB	Same hardware as mi* nodes, but with less cores/memory in the VM
ga*	Xeon-Gold-6330 @ 3.10GHz	56	754178MB	Each server has two A100 GPU devices
gd*	Xeon-Gold-6448Y @ 4.1GHG	64	774551MB	Each server has two A40 GPU devices
hm00	Xeon-Gold-6150 @ 2.70GHz	26	1419500MB	Specialist High Memory ~1.4TB machine. Please contact support to get access
md*	Xeon(R) Gold 5220R @ 2.2GHz	48	735000MB	The most recent Monarch Nodes which are baremetal
mk*	Xeon-Platinum-8260 @ 2.50GHz	48	342000MB
ms*	Xeon-Gold-6338 @ 2.00GHz	64	505700MB	The most recent Monarch Nodes

For data storage, we have deployed a parallel file system service using Intel Enterprise Lustre; providing over 300 TB usable storage with room for future expansion.

The MonARCH service is operated by the Monash HPC team and continuing technical and operational support from the Monash Cloud team, and eSolutions Servers-and-Storage, and Networks teams.

Acknowledgement and Citation

If you have found MonARCH useful for your research, we will be very grateful if you kindly acknowledge us. Find out how to acknowledge MonARCH in your publications.