ResearchComputeAU & Indie Atlas v1.4

South Australia

Adelaide University

Adelaide University opened on 5 January 2026, combining the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia. The campus high-performance computer inherited from the University of Adelaide is Phoenix. Confirm the name and the login path with the university before you plan a long project around it.

Phoenix

Treated as a campus research machine. Who can log in after the 2026 merger needs confirmation.

A 2024 national survey recorded Phoenix as the University of Adelaide cluster: about 11,520 CPU cores and 200 NVIDIA A100 GPUs. The university’s old Phoenix page is the citation in that paper. The merger means the access rules may have changed.

How to get it

  1. Start at Adelaide University’s technology or research-computing pages and search for Phoenix.
  2. If the page has moved, email the research computing desk and ask whether Phoenix is still the right name, and whether former UniSA accounts were added.
  3. Use Nectar with your Adelaide login for anything that cannot wait on that answer.
  4. For a very large job, the national route is still NCMAS, which is closed for 2027.

Nectar

This university is on the Nectar member list captured for local allocations.

Read the Nectar page

Keep going

Check before you rely on this

  • Phoenix hardware figures are from a 2024 survey, not a fresh count.
  • Access after the January 2026 merger, including former University of South Australia staff and students, was not re-confirmed.
  • The historical Phoenix URL cited by the survey (adelaide.edu.au/technology/research/high-performance-computing/phoenix-on-premise-hpc) may have moved.

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