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Other Services

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  • What eResearch Otago offers beyond the Aoraki cluster
  • Hosted applications, cloud native platforms and training
  • Who to ask when you are not sure what you need

Not every research computing problem is a batch job. Alongside the Aoraki cluster we run and support a number of other services — some of them hosted applications you simply log in to, some of them platforms we help you build on.

Most are available to any University of Otago researcher. Where a service needs to be set up for you first, the page says so.

Hosted Applications

Applications we run for you, reached through your browser.

Applications hosted by eResearch Otago
Service What it is
CryoSPARC Cryo-EM single particle analysis, on dedicated hardware and the cluster's GPU nodes
Database hosting PostgreSQL and MariaDB instances for research data
Large Language Models and GenAI An OpenAI-compatible gateway to LLMs hosted on campus
SAS Studio The SAS Studio IDE, with access to your HCS shares
ShinyProxy Hosting for R Shiny apps and other containerised applications
Speech-to-Text and Transcription Offline transcription, subtitling and translation of audio and video
Translation An on-campus machine translation interface and API

Cloud Native

Research platforms built on containers and Kubernetes, hosted on campus
Service What it is
Cloud Native Containers, microservices, workflows and the Kubernetes clusters behind them
Function-as-a-Service Running registered Python functions on remote compute through Globus Compute

Training

Learning to use these tools
Service What it is
Workshops Carpentries workshops in foundational coding and data skills, and instructor training

Not Sure What You Need?

Describe the problem rather than the tool and we will point you at the right one. Email the eResearch Support team at rtis.support@otago.ac.nz — the Support page covers what to include.

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