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<b>Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee</b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<b>CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ASTAC 2023-A</b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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** The current call for proposals closes at <b>8pm Friday 25th November 2022</b> **<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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The Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation call for proposals for Q1-Q2 2023 is now open. The deadline for this call is 8pm Friday 25th November 2022.<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></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). <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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The following resources are available:<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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NCI Astronomy Program: up to 4,000 kSUs on the Gadi system; <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></li><li class="x_x_x_x_xxxxxxxmsonormal" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
Swinburne: up to 2,000 kSUs on OzSTAR;<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></li><li class="x_x_x_x_xxxxxxxmsonormal x_x_x_elementToProof" style="margin-right:0cm; margin-left:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; display:block">
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Full details on ASTAC and the current call can be found at: <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></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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ASTAC is formed by Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL) and the ASTAC process is managed by Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS). <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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Jarrod Hurley (on behalf of ADACS and ASTAC)<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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