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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Dear All,</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">We would like to announce an upcoming training session for prospective and current users of</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">the
OzSTAR high-performance computing (HPC) environment at Swinburne. This session will introduce users to the Ngarrgu Tindebeek supercomputer - the latest addition to the OzSTAR HPC infrastructure. </span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">The session will be conducted via Zoom on Wednesday August 2nd at 11am and will run for an hour. </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Topics covered will be: </span></span></p>
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<li class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">Gen</span>eral overview of the hardware, user documentation and how to get started; </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"></span></li><li class="elementToProof" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Differences (and similarities) between OzSTAR and Ngarrgu Tindebeek; </span></li><li class="elementToProof" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Time for questions. </span></li></ul>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To register your interest please send an email to <ozstar2023@adacs.org.au> noting your name and institution. </span><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 10px; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Details
for connecting</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">to the event will be sent to those who have registered prior to the date.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Content
will also be recorded and made available at a later date. </span></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt" class="ContentPasted0">Ngarrgu Tindebeek translates as "Knowledge of the Void" in the local Woiwurrung language indigenous to the
land on which Swinburne is situated. Installed in 2023 the machine features over 11,500 AMD EPYC 7543 compute cores and 88 NVIDIA A100 GPUs. More details can be found at <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/jSf7CgZ0N1iq5MRx7FNdrIt?domain=supercomputing.swin.edu.au" id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview">https://supercomputing.swin.edu.au/ngarrgu-tindebeek</a></span></span></p>
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and user documentation at <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/sc4fCjZ1N7iY1WXMvsR_2xP?domain=supercomputing.swin.edu.au/" id="LPlnk284480">https://supercomputing.swin.edu.au/docs/</a></div>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Ngarrgu Tindebeek sits alongside the OzSTAR supercomputer which has been in operation since 2018. Thanks to support from Astronomy
Australia Limited (AAL) and Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS) the national astronomy community will have access to both supercomputers while they operate in parallel. </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">The training event is jointly provided by ADACS and the </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">OzSTAR support
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a collaboration between Swinburne University of Technology, Curtin University and Macquarie University. It is funded under the Astronomy National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) Program via Astronomy Australia Ltd (AAL). Funding for
the Ngarrgu Tindebeek hardware was provided by the Victorian Higher Education State Investment Fund (VHESIF). </span></p>
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