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31/07/2026

Bunya Phase 4.0 nodes are now available to all users.

New CPU nodes are available in the Bunya general partition.

New GPU nodes are available in the Bunya user_test partition. Please note these nodes are still being tested and may be shutdown or rebooted without notice.

Bunya users, please see the “RCC HPC Alert” email sent this afternoon for more information about using the new nodes.

The Bunya user guide has been updated with information about Bunya Phase 4.0: https://rcc.uq.edu.au/systems/high-performance-computing/user-guides

Read our latest news article about Bunya Phase 4.0 for more general information about the upgrade: https://rcc.uq.edu.au/article/2026/06/advanced-bunya-upgrade-about-go-live

The latest upgrade of The University of Queensland’s main supercomputer, featuring the first GPU technology deployment of its nature in the Australian research sector, is due to go live this July.

22/07/2026

IBM has given a RCC staffer the honour of contributing to one of its in-depth technical publications.

Sarah Walters, RCC Research Systems Projects and Delivery Manager, is co-author of an IBM Systems’ Redbooks publication titled “IBM Storage Scale: Working with Abstract Data.”

RCC Director Jake Carroll said: “It’s very rare for a person outside of IBM to contribute to these types of publications.”

Read more: https://rcc.uq.edu.au/article/2026/06/rcc-staffer-adds-uq-case-study-ibm-redbooks

Sarah Walters, RCC Research Systems Projects and Delivery Manager, is co-author of an IBM Systems’ Redbooks publication titled “IBM Storage Scale: Working with Abstract Data.”

17/07/2026

We’re so proud of Dr Marlies Hankel, UQ RCC Senior Liaison and Policy Manager, being selected for a women in HPC ( ) panel at an international supercomputing conference in Germany last month.

Marlies joined three other panelists for a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at the ISC High Performance 2026 conference ( ) in Hamburg on Wednesday, 24 June.

https://rcc.uq.edu.au/article/2026/06/rcc-staffer-joins-global-women-hpc-panel

A University of Queensland Research Computing Centre staffer was included on a women in high-performance computing (WHPC) panel at an international supercomputing conference in Germany in June 2026.

30/06/2026

RCC’s newsletter out now!

Featured photo is of RCC’s Dr Marlies Hankel on a global women in HPC panel at in Hamburg, Germany.

Other news items include:

* Advanced Bunya upgrade about to go live
* Queensland Nectar Node transitions to UQ
* New job role created to enhance IBM and UQ partnership
* RCC staffer adds UQ case study to IBM Redbooks
* RCC staffer heading to Belfast for HPC conference

Advanced Bunya upgrade about to go live; Queensland Nectar Node transitions to UQ; New job role created for IBM & UQ partnership; RCC staffer on global women in HPC panel; RCC staffer adds UQ case study to IBM Redbooks; RCC staffer heading to Belfast for HPC conference.

23/06/2026

RCC staff Jake Carroll, Dr Marlies Hankel, & Irek Porebski are attending ISC High Performance 2026 in Hamburg, Germany this week.

Marlies is on a Women in HPC panel.

Jake is attending as part of the IBM@UQ Centre of Excellence and Innovation.

June 22-26, Hamburg, Germany: Europe’s Leading HPC, AI & Quantum Coference & Exhibition.

25/05/2026

RCC staffers Jake Carroll and Sarah Walters attended / in Japan earlier this year. Read their reports about industry trends and their experience at the landmark event for the Asia-Pacific supercomputing community.

https://rcc.uq.edu.au/article/2026/04/rcc-scahpcasia-2026-convergence-constraints-and-future-research-computing

Two RCC staffers attended SupercomputingAsia (SCA) and HPCAsia 2026, held in Osaka, Japan from 26–29 January, alongside more than 2,500 participants from academia, industry and government.

14/05/2026

We will take over operational responsibility for the Queensland Node of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Nectar Research Cloud from QCIF Digital Research from 1 July 2026.

This transition is building on UQ and RCC's extensive experience in delivering national research services and QCIF Digital Research's successful stewardship of the Queensland node since its inception.

https://rcc.uq.edu.au/article/2026/05/queensland-nectar-node-transition-uq

The University of Queensland's Research Computing Centre (RCC) will take over operational responsibility for the Queensland Node of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Nectar Research Cloud from QCIF Digital Research from 1 July 2026.

12/05/2026

RCC has deployed a new feature on its XNAT advanced imaging platform to make it easier for researchers to use their data with the latest research software and integrated analysis pipelines.

The new Australian Imaging Service (AIS) capability allows researchers to launch Jupyter Notebooks and the Neurodesk platform directly from their project on the UQ AIS XNAT platform, with access to their imaging data.

RCC Senior Principal Software Engineer/Developer Dr Mark Endrei said: “The Neurodesk Notebook provides researchers with a virtual desktop and an extensive suite of biomedical imaging tools with support for GPU acceleration.”

Aswin Narayanan, National Imaging Facility (NIF) Senior Imaging Informatics Fellow at UQ, said: “This integration brings UQ’s large repository of imaging data backed by XNAT and UQ Research Data Manager (UQRDM) together with hundreds of analysis tools and software into a single environment, removing the need to install software and transfer data.

“We’re excited to be the first node in the national AIS and NIF network to launch this integration,” said Aswin.

RCC is keen to hear from UQ XNAT users interested in piloting this new feature.

https://rcc.uq.edu.au/article/2026/04/new-feature-launch-neurodesk-xnat

RCC has deployed a new feature on its XNAT advanced imaging platform to make it easier for researchers to use their data with the latest research software and integrated analysis pipelines.

15/04/2026

A recent upgrade to The University of Queensland’s supercomputer will see better flexibility and faster results for researchers, especially for AI workloads.

The environment of UQ HPC Bunya has been modernised with the installation of Rocky Linux 9 (Rocky 9), a premier, stable and free enterprise-grade operating system (OS) for HPCs that is heavily used in modern cluster deployments.

RCC Senior Principal Scientific Frameworks Officer Oliver Cairncross said in recent production tests following the installation of Rocky 9, RCC’s team achieved a sustained throughput of approximately 4,500 tokens* per second using a single high-end GPU on Bunya.

“This allowed us to process complex structured classification tasks across 7,500 documents in under 45 minutes. This type of workload was previously inefficient or technically impossible to run at this scale,” said Oliver.

Read more:

A recent upgrade to The University of Queensland’s supercomputer will see better flexibility and faster results for researchers, especially for AI workloads.

02/04/2026

Our newsletter is out now! Articles on:
* Rocky 9 upgrade makes UQ HPC faster and more flexible
* New feature to launch Neurodesk from XNAT
* RCC staffer honoured in global women in HPC list
* RCC reports from SCA/HPCAsia 2026
* UQ celebrates 5 years of the IBM@UQ Centre of Excellence and Innovation
* RCC Director joins AeRO Executive Committee
* “Mr REDCap” Simon Forsyth retires.

Rocky 9 upgrade makes UQ HPC faster and more flexible; New feature to launch Neurodesk from XNAT; RCC staffer honoured in global women in HPC list; RCC reports from SCA/HPCAsia 2026; UQ celebrates 5 years of the IBM@UQ Centre of Excellence and Innovation; RCC Director joins AeRO Exec' Committee; “...

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