Bunya
- About Bunya
- Getting a Bunya account
- Bunya training
- Bunya User Guide
- Bunya support
- Bunya technical specifications
About Bunya
Supercomputer Bunya was launched in December 2022 after a successful user testing phase.
Bunya, bought from Dell Technologies, uses novel methods of software deployment and management to allow for flexibility and ease of operation for researchers.
The HPC can perform across a wide range of research domains, from the sciences to the humanities.
Bunya, named after the native South-East Queensland tree, replaces three of UQ’s older HPCs that have served the University for almost seven years: Awoonga, FlashLite and Tinaroo. Awoonga and FlashLite have already been decommissioned. Tinaroo will be turned off in March or April 2023 (users have already been alerted about this via email).
Wiener, UQ’s imaging-intensive, GPU-enhanced supercomputer, will continue to operate.
UQ has allocated funding to expand Bunya’s capabilities and capacity over the next few years, so the single system should be a sufficient replacement for the three HPCs.
Bunya is available for UQ researchers and some QCIF member researchers.
Bunya is optimised for local users and campus infrastructure. It will start out as a traditional central processing unit (CPU)-based supercomputer with a number of high-memory capacity nodes for special uses.
Subsequent upgrades of Bunya will likely add different node types, such as high-performance accelerators, including GPUs.
RCC’s Metropolitan Data Caching Infrastructure (MeDiCI) data fabric enables research data collections to be accessed transparently via all UQ HPCs, including Bunya.
Read our article about Bunya, published 6 June 2022.
Getting a Bunya account
Click here for the Bunya application form via QRIScloud.
It's important to note that there are eight questions on the application form and all are mandatory.
Please try and copy the questions into the box on the form and answer each one. You will need to provide current six-digit FoR code(s). If you do not know what a FoR code is, or do not have one, please contact your supervisor. Incomplete applications will be rejected and applicants will have to fill in a new form.
/home, /scratch and /QRISdata will be available so there should be no need to move any data. However, Bunya has AMD CPUs, and not Intel CPUs like FlashLite or Tinaroo, therefore, if you use your own software you will need to reinstall.
You also need to move your scripts from PBS to Slurm. The Bunya User Guide has example scripts to show you how to do that.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact rcc-support@uq.edu.au.
Bunya training
RCC conducts regular 'Introduction to HPC' training on the last Friday of each month. Please visit RCC's training webpage for further information.
Please send enquiries via email to rcc-support@uq.edu.au for further information or to register your interest in future 'Introduction to HPC' training sessions.
Bunya User Guide
The Bunya User Guide is available via GitHub.
Bunya support
Non-UQ users should contact their local HPC/eResearch team for help.
UQ users of Bunya should submit support requests to: rcc-support@uq.edu.au.
Bunya technical specifications
The Bunya high-performance computer:
- was provided by Dell EMC Technologies Australia Pty Ltd
- features ~6000 AMD EPYC Milan series cores, 96 physical cores per node
- features 2 terabytes of memory per node on a standard compute node
- features 4 terabytes of memory per node on each of the three high-memory capability nodes
- features a blocking topology Infiniband HDR cluster interconnect, running at a native 200 Gbit/sec per port, per node
- includes three servers worth of early-access exploratory/cutting-edge systems containing AMD Instinct MI2xx series GPU accelerators
- runs a current generation RHEL-type Linux distribution.