High Performance Computing
at
The University of Melbourne

Current HPC Usage:

HPC usage at the university is spread across a number of Research Groups with a strong computational focus, where HPC is an integral of the groups overall research interest, plus those individual researchers whose particular area involves the use of the HPC facilities although others in their area may not require their use.

Current users of the facilities include:

• Groups:
  
  
  • Chemistry - Group 1
    Dr. Carl Schiesser, Melissa Skidmore, Sonia Horvat, Tamara Perchyonok, Dr. Sean Graney
    This group is doing a number of projects with a particular focus on reaction mechanisms. Current projects include:
    
    • Free Radical Exchange Reactions at higher heteroatoms
    • Studies of free radical homolytic substituion reaction at silicon, germanium and tin.
    • Development of novel chiral organotin reducing agents for the synthesis of chiral compounds.
    • Effect of alpha chalcogen functionality upon free radical reactivity
    
    
  • Mathematics - Statistical Mechanics group
    Prof. Tony Guttman, Dr. Aleks Owczarek, Dr. Iwan Jensen
    This group has done extensive studies involving self-avoiding walks on various lattices. Current projects include:
    
    • Monte Carlo Simulations of lattice polymers
    
    
  • Chemical Engineering, Metallurgy Group
    Dr. Liow Jong-Leng, Peter Liovic, George Assaad.
    This group has been developing a volume of fluid code to simulate free surface flows of multiple fluids. Current projects include:
    
    • Modelling of gas-injection into multi-liquid baths
    • Free Surface flow of a two layer liquid
    
    
  • Earth Sciences, Meteorology group
    Mr. Ross Murray, Tim Butler, David Noone
    This group is concerned with athmospheric and ocean modelling. Current projects include:
    
    • Studies of water mass formation using a curvilinear ocean model.
    • Isotopic content of the Antarctic ice sheet and paleoclimates
    
    
  • Chemistry - Group 2
    Dr. Richard Harcourt, Dr. Evan Bieske, Dr. Jonathan White.
    This group is doing studies focused on the interpretation of experimental results. Current projects include:
    
    • Valence Bond Studies of Molecules
    • Ab Initio calculations of anion complexes

• Individual Projects:
  
  
  • David Whyte, Chemical Engineering and Mathematics & Statistics
    • Numerical modelling of droplet formation in photographic dispersion.
    
    
  • Matthias Eberspächer, Theoretical Physics
    • The inverse scattering problem for coupled channels
    
    
  • John Markham, Physics
    • Monte Carlo studies of lattice field theory
    
    
  • Brendan Owen, Electrical Engineering
    • Automated Visual Classification and Tracking - with Applications for fish species recognition
    
    
  • Dr. Evan Thomas, Physiology
    • Large scale simulation of the enteric nervous system
    
    
  • Edwin Yeow, Chemistry
    • Energy Transfer Dynamics in Macromolecules
    
    
  • Dr. Catherine Stampfl, Physics
    • First-principles calculations of the atomic and electronic structure, and formation of interfaces and point defects in diamond/III-Nitride systems