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<b>Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee</b></p>
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<b>CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ASTAC 2024-A</b></p>
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** The current call for proposals closes at <b>8pm Friday 24th November 2023</b> **</p>
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The Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation call for proposals for Q1-Q2 2024 is now open. The deadline for this call is 8pm Friday 24th November 2023.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">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
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<p style="margin: 0px 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The following resources are available:</p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">NCI Astronomy Program: up to 4,000 kSUs on the Gadi system; </span></li><li style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;">
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Swinburne: up to 2,000 kSUs on OzSTAR and Ngarrgu Tindebeek. </span></div>
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Full details on ASTAC and the current call can be found at: </p>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/0ZHQCROND2uGZR3D7h9sdyu?domain=astronomyaustralia.org.au/" id="LPlnk914215" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://astronomyaustralia.org.au/committees-astronomy-australia-ltd/astac/</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/vEwmCVARKgC2Q5pnOCzhHn3?domain=astronomyaustralia.org.au" id="LPlnk700711" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://astronomyaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/ASTAC-call-2024A.pdf</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">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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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Best regards,</p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Jarrod Hurley (on behalf of ADACS and ASTAC)</p>
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