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Gadi, pronounced `gar dee`, after the words `to search for` in the language of the Ngunnawal people, the traditional owners of the Canberra region, is Australia's peak research supercomputer. The high performance computing system is hosted at National Computational Infrastructure on ANU The Australian National University's Acton campus.  It has been Gadi was launched in Nov. 2019 and replaced its predecessor Raijin in Jan. 2020.

Gadi has 10 login nodes, 6 data mover nodes, and 184264 CPU cores in 4243 and  4000+ compute nodes including 160 GPU compute nodes that also provide 640 NVIDIA V100 GPUs. There is 1.67 PiB storage available locally on compute nodes and also a 22 PiB Lustre parallel filesystem in Gadi. Its inter-connect network of HDR Infiniband technology in a Dragonfly+ topology is capable of transferring data at 100 Gbps among nodes, and between nodes and the parallel filesystem. The system ran at 9264.3 TFLOP/s as of May 2020 and ranking 24th on the June 2020 top 500 list.

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HOW TO USE THIS USER GUIDE

The first section `Welcome Welcome to Gadi` Gadi covers most of the basics you would like need to know before submitting the your first job and the rest of the sections keep more in-depth topical articles and frequently asked questions in their own categories..

These sections provide more detail and answer frequently asked questions:

  1. User, Project and Scheme `User, Project and Scheme` focuses on the management of user accountaccounts, project projects and schemes. It shows what can be done through my.nci.org.au and how to do it.
  2. `Compute Compute Grant and Job Debiting` Debiting helps to understand how the project compute grant is allocated and consumed by jobs.
  3. `Storage Storage and Data Management` Management introduces filesystems available on Gadi, and keeps our suggestions for data management and I/O operations on different filesystems.
  4. `PBS Jobs` PBS Jobs is the knowledge base for job submissions, scheduling, and monitoring. 
  5. `Software Applications` Software Applications explains how to run software applications on Gadi `Parallelism` is the showcase of jobs that benefit from the large scale parallelism provided by Gadi.

We also have two cheat sheets at part of this user guide. The `Linux Gadi Quick Reference Guide gathers Gadi specific facts together and can be used for quick lookups. The Linux Command Quick Reference` Reference is for users who need help to get familiar with the basic commands. The `Gadi Quick Reference Guide` gathers Gadi specific facts together and can be used for quick lookups.

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We are going to actively develop this user guide in the next couple of months and update it on a regular basis during the entire lifespan of Gadi. Any suggestions for its improvement are welcome. Please reach us by launching tickets at help.nci.org.au or sending

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