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<b>Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee</b></p>
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<b>CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ASTAC 2026-A</b></p>
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** The current call for proposals closes at <b>8pm Friday 21st November 2025</b> **</p>
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The Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation call for proposals for Q1-Q2 2026 is now open. The deadline for this call is 8pm Friday 21<sup>st</sup> November 2025.</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 style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm;">
<div style="direction: ltr;" role="presentation">Swinburne: up to 2,000 kSUs on OzSTAR and Ngarrgu Tindebeek. </div>
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Full details on ASTAC and the current call can be found at: </p>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA201b23e0-cd11-8c14-ca35-b926ad01df4d" href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/S0pWCBNqjlCRvBMK8tzf9C2Tl7w?domain=astronomyaustralia.org.au/">https://astronomyaustralia.org.au/committees-astronomy-australia-ltd/astac/</a></span></p>
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<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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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA5b9c9bd1-78bc-eb77-e20e-995340d9c771" href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/OxuXCD1vlpTJX0nA3c5hDCj1gHI?domain=astronomyaustralia.org.au">https://astronomyaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ASTAC-call-2026A.pdf</a></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). </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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