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With a mission to foster ambitious and aspirational research objectives, the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) in Australia is building world-class computing services through a collaboration of national organizations and research-intensive universities.As an increasing number of applications such as bioinformatics start to leverage Big Data, and more virtual laboratories call for self-service and research results sharing, it becomes apparent for NCI that a high performance cloud is needed. This cloud must combine the virtues of cloud to support multi-tenancy, self-service and Big Data type of applications, and of HPC to support compute-intensive parallel.

In this presentation, NCI and Mellanox will join hands to discuss the various approaches experimented to construct a high-performance cloud, comparison of the pros and cons of each of the approaches, preliminary performance results, and the role of high-speed network for enhancing cloud performance and efficiency.