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<b>Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee</b></p>
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<b>CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ASTAC 2022-B</b></p>
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** The current call for proposals closes at <b>8pm Friday 27th May 2022</b> **</p>
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The Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation call for proposals for Q3-Q4 2022 is now open. The deadline for this call is 8pm Friday 27th May 2022.</p>
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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). </p>
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The following resources are available:</p>
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NCI Astronomy Program: up to 4,000 kSUs on the Gadi system; </li><li class="x_xxxxxxxxmsonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">
Swinburne: up to 2,000 kSUs on OzSTAR;</li></ol>
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Full details on ASTAC and the current call can be found at: </p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">or you can access the information sheet for the current call, including details on how to apply, directly via: </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/Nd5VCmO5glu5RrXk0SOV3mf?domain=astronomyaustralia.org.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14.6667px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" id="LPlnk476977">https://astronomyaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ASTAC-call-2022B.pdf</a><br>
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ASTAC is formed by Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL) and the ASTAC process is managed by Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS). </p>
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Best regards,</p>
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Jarrod Hurley (on behalf of ADACS and ASTAC)</p>
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