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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear All, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL) and Swinburne University of Technology are pleased to announce the availability </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">of up to 2,000 virtual CPUs </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">for dedicated astronomy access on the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Swinburne
cell within the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">NeCTAR Cloud network. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">These CPUs will be utilised via OpenStack Virtual Machines (VMs), which can be provisioned in a variety of different </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">'flavours' to accommodate a broad spectrum of workflows.
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VMs will typically comprise up to 8 or 16 virtual CPUs </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">and 16 or 32 GB RAM (although larger sizes
will be possible upon request), as well as attachable storage, a DNS zone </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">and a floating IP address.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It is envisaged that this resource will be of interest to small-job use cases that do not require the full blown infrastructure </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">of a high-performance computing (HPC) facility and/or will benefit from the flexibility of working outside of a HPC </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">environment. However, there is currently no restriction on use case and we are keen to see how this resource can be </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">of benefit to a variety of astronomy workflows. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To facilitate usage we have developed a customised astronomy interface which comes with a range of software </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">packages included. We expect this interface to develop further over time based on the needs of the community. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At this stage we would like to hear from anyone who thinks that this resource may be of benefit to their research. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please contact
</span><span style="font-family: Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(81, 167, 249);">openstack@adacs.org.au</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> to register your interest, discuss your use
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">All the best, </span></div>
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