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NCI is pleased to announce that the highly requested Internet access capability in the ARE service (Australian Research Environment) is now operational. Jobs running in ARE will now be able to communicate directly with the Internet, facilitating more interactive usage.

Since its launch, ARE has provided NCI users with a Web-based interface to access NCI's HPC capabilities without the need to install additional tools or utilities locally.

ARE supports the full range of Gadi capabilities and high-performance access to the underlying /g/data filesystems. It provides users with a variety of specialised queues to access the GPU-equipped Visualisation nodes, Large memory nodes and a variety of CPU generations based on processing requirements. Read the ARE User Guide to find out more.

With ARE now supporting external internet access, NCI will be closing down the Open On Demand (OOD) service around the end of June 2023. OOD provided an early access environment during the implementation of ARE.

NCI projects currently using OOD should migrate their workflows to the ARE environment as soon as possible. Please follow the instructions for copying files from OOD to ARE to complete this migration.

Please note that ARE uses NCI Service Units as its basis for charging the jobs that are run. An allocation of SUs, acquired through merit schemes, partner share or other access mechanism, is required to use ARE. Please get in touch with NCI at help@nci.org.au if you have any questions.

Our Cloud Service Associate Director Andrew Howard will give a presentation and answer questions at 11am, June 20. registration for zoom meeting is: https://anu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtcu2hqjIvGt36FHpIrbVwvQROeYMobF8a