Check out the Documentation section for a comprehensive overview of how to use Rāpoi.
Visit the Rāpoi Slack Channel for help, software requests or to communicate with others in the Rāpoi community.
Need an account on Rāpoi or access to the Slack channel? Log a request on the Service Desk Portal
or Contact the Rāpoi Admins:
Research Compute Specialist¶
Our research compute specialist is usually ready to assist you in getting started with your work on Rāpoi and effectively handling your research data within the cluster.
The Research Computing Specialist role—previously held by Rohit Duggal in ECS—is currently vacant. While a replacement is being sought, please direct any support queries to the #raapoi-help channel in UWRC Slack. This space is actively used by experienced cluster users who are likely to have the knowledge and expertise to assist you.
We appreciate your understanding and encourage peer collaboration in the meantime.

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Research Computing Specialist - Rāpoi
Position Vacant
Rāpoi Systems Administrators¶
Our admins from Digital Solutions build the cluster nodes and keep an eye on the hardware as well as provisioning new users. The listed folk in the team have other roles and are very kindly helping out on a best effort as time permits basis.


Rāpoi Moderators¶
Moderators are members of the research community who have kindly volunteered their time to help support Raapoi - they can help build software and limit users who are causing problems on the cluster. They're busy people, but they might find time to build your weird software package - on a best effort and as time permits basis.


Geoffrey Weal
Postdoctorial Fellowship
MacDiarmid Institute and iCeMS (Kyoto University, Japan)

Kelly Styles
PhD Student
School of Biological Sciences
Microbial genomics and pipeline creation

Rāpoi Admin Alumni¶
Folk who used to look after Raapoi.

Rohit Duggal
Research Computing Specialist - Rāpoi
Left September 2025

Andre Geldenhuis
Research Computing Specialist in the Center for Academic Development.
Left August 2023


Wes Harrell
Research Software Engineer

Alice Fage
Research Assistant who helped out greatly with cluster admin
Rāpoi Moderator Alumni¶
Folk who were moderators in the past.
SNAP Community¶
Connect with SNAP community here: SNAP - VUW-hub for Simulation, Numerics, Analytics and Programming