Posted: 24 October
Australia’s first university cloud supercomputing facility, which allows researchers to test ideas and solutions up to 80 times faster than existing on-site servers, is now open to industry partners.
RMIT University’s AWS Cloud Supercomputing facility, or RACE, opened in July this year for RMIT researchers, who are now using it to power advances into battery technologies, photonics and geospatial science.
With its public launch this week, external research partners are now able to use it too.
RACE provides fast, secure and private connections – powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AARNet – ideal for workloads that require higher speed and fewer delays than the internet.
RACE Director Dr Robert Shen said the increased bandwidth gives researchers, students, and industry partners the ability make discoveries faster and for RMIT to fast-track the time between initial concepts and products going to market.
The new service is already making a difference for the RMIT research groups who’ve used it since July this year, prior to its public launch.
Professor Michelle Spencer has used it to analyse data and communicate a new ultra-fast way to screen hundreds of potential molecules that could make suitable electrolytes for lithium-metal batteries, which could potentially increase storage capacity by 10-fold.
