NCI Gadi Guide for USyd researchers

This document contains instructions for how to access and utilise NCI’s HPC, Gadi for University of Sydney researchers. Please be mindful this is not an exhaustive resource for using the NCI Gadi HPC. It is only intended to orientate you to the system and navigate the Gadi user documentation.

NCI’s HPC systems are designed to handle complex computational tasks, such as simulations, data analysis, and modeling, for a wide range of scientific disciplines, including climate modeling, genomics, astronomy, and materials science.

The University of Sydney provides its researchers with subsidised access to NCI’s infrastructure. After creating an NCI account and project, visit https://nci.sydney.edu.au/ to request Service Units for your project (note: you must be on the University of Sydney Network/VPN).

Support

SIH is limited in the support it can provide for NCI Gadi users. If you are new to HPC and Gadi, we expect you will attend SIH’s Intro to HPC and NCI’s Intro to Gadi courses. Additionally, familiarise yourself with Gadi using the NCI Gadi user guide:

For additional support, please contact the following people depending on your needs:

Type of issue	Who	How	Details
Service unit allocation for running jobs	SIH	Make a request	SIH schemes
An issue with NCI Gadi	NCI Helpdesk	Log an NCI ticket	Provide your error, log file, jobid
Any error returned in running a job	NCI Helpdesk	Log an NCI ticket	Provide your error, log file, jobid
A bug in an SIH pipeline	SIH	Submit an issue on Github	Provide details e.g. this issue
Bioinformatics advice	SIH	Log an SIH ticket	Provide relevant context, errors, tool names, scripts

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