Research Computing Centre

Partners

Our Partners

IBM@UQ Centre of Excellence and Innovation

UQ has partnered with IBM Australia to launch a Centre of Excellence which will support researchers working across a broad range of disciples, providing opportunities in infrastructure, software platforms and workflows.

See our separate webpage about the IBM@UQ Centre.


QCIF

RCC leverages investment by government in initiatives such as QCIF (Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation) and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). 

In collaboration with QCIF, RCC manages QRIScloud, the Queensland node of the national ARDC Nectar Research Cloud. 

UQ is a long-time full member of QCIF, meaning UQ research staff and HDR students gain access to most QCIF services at no extra cost.

RCC is the conduit for UQ researchers to access QCIF services, such as cloud computing, and expertise in data science, including bioinformatics, statistics, and sensitive data, as well as grant support.

QCIF also provides digital skills training for research staff and HDR students, including courses on Python, R, and Unix programming, high-performance computing, machine learning, and a range of courses specifically for the life sciences.

Please visit the QCIF website for more information: qcif.edu.au
 

AeRO

UQ is a long-time member of Australasian eResearch Organisations (AeRO) and was its first institutional full member in 2016.

AeRO membership enables UQ to work closely with all AeRO members. It means UQ is able to engage, participate in and influence the directions of projects to improve national and collective eResearch capability and infrastructure.

UQ’s significant investments in eResearch are coordinated through RCC. RCC occasionally sponsors participation in AeRO events for UQ staff and HDR students in specific research domains, and for UQ/RCC collaborators.

AeRO manages and runs the annual eResearch Australasia Conference, usually held in October in either Brisbane or Melbourne. Former RCC Director Professor David Abramson was the Conference Chair in 2017 and 2023. David is currently the President of AeRO and also served as AeRO’s chairperson in 2023.


ARDC

RCC leverages investment by government in initiatives such as QCIF and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). 

RCC works with QCIF and ARDC to provide simple and effective solutions in research.

In collaboration with QCIF, RCC manages QRIScloud, the Queensland node of the national ARDC Nectar Research Cloud. UQ researchers have access to data storage on  QRIScloud. See our Cloud Computing webpage for more information about the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud.

UQ researchers have access to a large range of capabilities on QRIScloud including national platforms such as CryoSPARC as a Service, various repositories such as OMERO and XNAT, and GPU-accelerated computing infrastructure.

RCC has a history of working on ARDC-funded projects, includng current project "Environments to Accelerate Machine Learning-Based Discovery."
 

NCI

See our National Facilities webpage for information about National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), an Australian National University-based facility that operates the Gadi supercomputer.
 

Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre

See our National Facilities webpage for information about the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, a Curtin University-based facility that operates the Setonix supercomputer.


Australian BioCommons

The Australian BioCommons, supported by Bioplatforms Australia, is a large-scale investment in digital infrastructure to ensure Australian life science research remains globally competitive.

The BioCommons provides access to the tools, methods and training life science researchers require to respond to national challenges such as food security, environmental conservation and disease treatments.

RCC works with the Australian BioCommons on a number of projects and to co-deliver and underpin services to support the local research sector. Examples include providing infrastructure for Galaxy Australia, and indexing services allowing researchers to run their code in a portable way across other Bioplatforms Australia initiatives.

See the Australian BioCommons’ website for more information about the digital infrastructure capability.