Victoria
Swinburne University of Technology
Swinburne operates two supercomputers, OzSTAR and Ngarrgu Tindebeek. They are serious machines, with a public emphasis on astronomy and gravitational waves. Ask before you assume a general coursework account exists.
OzSTAR and Ngarrgu Tindebeek
Operated for Swinburne research, with a strong astronomy role. General access is something to confirm, not something this guide promises.
Ngarrgu Tindebeek has more than 11,000 AMD CPU cores and 88 NVIDIA A100 GPUs. OzSTAR was installed in 2018 and underpins the gravitational-wave group hosted at Swinburne. A 2024 survey counted about 15,860 cores and 300 GPUs across the two systems.
How to get it
- Read the Swinburne supercomputing site and write to the contact there with a one-paragraph description of the job.
- Say whether you need CPUs or the A100 GPUs.
- If the answer is that these machines are reserved for astronomy projects, use Nectar for the general work and keep Kaggle as the GPU you can touch today.
- Do not buy a long rental until Swinburne has said no.
Nectar
This university is on the Nectar member list captured for local allocations.
Keep going
Check before you rely on this
- Whether every Swinburne researcher can get an account, or only astronomy-related projects, was not stated on the public supercomputing page.