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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-AU">Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-AU">CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ASTAC 2021-A</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-AU">** The current call for proposals closes at <b>5pm Friday 20th November 2020</b> **</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-AU">The Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation call for proposals for Q1-Q2 2021 is now open. The deadline for this call is 5pm Friday 20th November 2020.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-AU">Within this call we have 6 million service units available to allocate to the astronomy community on national supercomputing facilities (including allocations for CPU-only and GPU-specific applications) and up to
500 virtual CPUs to allocate on OpenStack virtual machines on the NeCTAR network. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-AU">The following resources are available:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
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<li class="x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-AU">NCI Astronomy Program: up to 4,000 kSUs on the Gadi system; </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></li><li class="x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-AU">Swinburne: up to 2,000 kSUs on OzSTAR;</span></li><li class="x_x_x_x_x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-AU">OpenStack Virtual Machines: up to 500 virtual CPUs.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-AU">Full details on ASTAC and the current call can be found at: </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-AU"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/sLyJCBNqjlC5DYZPFzg-9w?domain=astronomyaustralia.org.au" id="LPlnk646298" style="">http://www.astronomyaustralia.org.au/astac.html</a><br>
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or you can access the information sheet for the current call, including details on how to apply, directly via: </p>
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<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ZDqlCE8wmrt5lEA1Fp0TkX?domain=astronomyaustralia.org.au" id="LPlnk362402" style="">http://www.astronomyaustralia.org.au/uploads/4/8/2/5/48250739/astac-call-2021a.pdf</a><br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-AU">ASTAC is formed by Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL) and the ASTAC process is managed by Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS). </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-AU">Best regards,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-AU">Jarrod Hurley (on behalf of ADACS and ASTAC)</span></p>
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