[ASA] Reminder: ASTAC Call for Proposals for Q1-2 2013 closes Tuesday 27th Nov 2012

[Mita Brierley]

Reminder: *Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee: Call for
Proposals - NCI, gSTAR/swinSTAR, Epic*

 

Call closes 9am (AEDT) Tuesday 27th November 2012

 

Attached is a call for proposals for time (total of 3.2 MSU) on a number of
Australian Supercomputer Facilities for Q1-Q2 in 2013. The same information
is available on the Astronomy Australia web-site at
<http://astronomyaustralia.org.au/astac.html>
http://astronomyaustralia.org.au/astac.html

 

We would like to draw your attention to the following key points:

 

1. The time available to Australian researchers for computational
astrophysics on world-class facilities has increased markedly over the last
few years. This is a great time to be working in this area.

 

2. The GPU facility gSTAR, located at Swinburne, offers users an opportunity
for very high performance computational power for appropriately written
code.

 

3. The deadline for this current round of proposals is 27 November, 2012 so
that there is adequate time to prepare a good proposal.

 

4. We are particularly keen to encourage graduate students and early career
researchers to become involved in this rapidly developing field. Modern
computer hardware and software offers the capacity to perform simulations of
numerous astrophysical situations at high resolution and in at least three
dimensions. 

Advisers are available to assist people in getting started with their
computational projects.

 

 

ASTAC

Geoff Bicknell (Chair, Australian National University), Ben Evans (Associate
Director, NCI; ex-officio),  Jarrod Hurley (Swinburne Supercomputer Manager;
ex-officio), Mark George Beckett (Deputy Director, iVEC; ex-officio), John
Lattanzio (Monash University), Geraint Lewis (University of Sydney), Jon
Smillie (NCI user consultant), Luke Hodkinson (Swinburne supercomputer user
consultant)

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