On-Premise + Cloud Integration

Local Accelerators (LocalTime)

Managed local cloud infrastructure combining discretionary on-premise hardware with seamless national cloud bursting.

Intersect’s LocalTime (OwnTime) provides universities and research institutions with a managed local compute zone. By physically housing custom local racks in your local datacentre and configuring them as an exclusive management zone within the Nectar Cloud, researchers enjoy zero-friction, self-service virtual compute with local hardware guarantees and national scale bursting.

Management Layer Managed OpenStack-as-a-Service (Intersect Cell)
Hardware Deployment On-Premise Racks in Local Institutional Datacentre
Capacity Bursting Direct Overflow to 32,000+ CPU Nectar National Fabric
Cost Governance Direct Chief Investigator (CI) Resource Attribution

Key LocalTime Capabilities

Uniquely engineered to remove local cloud management complexity while maximising institutional capital investment utility:

  • Dematerialised Infrastructure Management: Intersect handles the complex underlying OpenStack system administration, security shielding, and operational maintenance.
  • Seamless Capacity Buffering: When local demand surges beyond on-premise physical supply, workloads automatically buffer and burst into national Nectar Cloud capacity without downtime.
  • Pre-Configured Image & Virtual Lab Catalog: Instant deployment of community images, official Linux distros, and 15+ Nectar Virtual Labs for domain-specific pipelines.
  • Direct CI Spend Attribution: Precise statistical tracking and reporting tools that attribute consumption directly to specific research projects and grant owners.

Local Accelerator Deployment Models

Tailored options for institutional IT leaders and research department heads:

Dedicated Hardware

On-Premise Local Zone

Dedicated compute nodes physically housed in your local datacentre, configured as an exclusive local zone within Intersect’s cloud fabric.

  • Low-Latency Campus Network Access
  • Guaranteed Local Hardware Priority
  • Managed OpenStack Operations
Hybrid Scale

National Cloud Bursting

Dynamic capacity expansion that seamlessly offloads compute spikes onto the $68M NCRIS-subsidised national Nectar Research Cloud.

  • Zero Downtime During Peak Utilization
  • Access to 32,000+ Shared Cores
  • Unified Self-Service Interface
Domain Specific

Custom Domain Accelerators

Pre-packaged compute environments custom-built for physics simulations, high-I/O shared memory instances, astronomy, or AI data pipelines.

  • Pre-Installed Domain Toolstacks
  • AARNet High-Speed Optical Transit
  • Direct Intersect Analyst Support

Consult with an eResearch Cloud Architect

Interested in deploying a LocalTime zone, expanding your university's local hardware, or configuring custom domain accelerators? Contact our engineering team directly via email:

Email Cloud Architects → Or reach out to enquiries@intersect.org.au