From john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au Mon May 20 08:46:11 2013 From: john.obyrne at sydney.edu.au (John O'Byrne) Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 08:46:11 +1000 Subject: [ASA] Call for ASA Council nominations Message-ID: To ASA voting Members, (sorry, that excludes Students and Associate members) All voting members are invited to nominate another member for the 2013-2015 Council - or to get themselves nominated. Note that the recent constitutional changes extends most Council terms to 2 years to improve its operation. As required by the Constitution, the current Council has prepared a full list of candidates, listed on the attached nomination form. Any further nominations must be received by either Marc Duldig or myself on or before 4 June 2013. If you have any questions about this process, please contact Marc Duldig or myself . 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URL: From mita.brierley at astronomyaustralia.org.au Tue May 21 11:22:32 2013 From: mita.brierley at astronomyaustralia.org.au (Mita Brierley) Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 11:22:32 +1000 Subject: [ASA] NCMAS mid-year call In-Reply-To: References: <9B65ECDE-B3C9-4197-AA3C-5F66FAFF76F8@anu.edu.au> <519ABF3E.3010802@anusf.anu.edu.au> <012801ce55bb$cf654950$6e2fdbf0$@astronomyaustralia.org.au> Message-ID: <013801ce55c1$aac2b820$00482860$@astronomyaustralia.org.au> Mid-year call for time on NCI supercomputing facilities ASTAC would like to bring to your attention NCI's mid-year call for applications for new projects using their facilities, including their new peak system coming on line in Q3 2013. See the email below for further details. The NCMAS call is open to all disciplines. A reminder that ASTAC has also put out a separate mid-year call for applications for astronomy-dedicated time on the NCI peak facility and on Swinburne's swinSTAR/gSTAR supercomputer. Details of the ASTAC call can be found on the AAL website: http://www.astronomyaustralia.org.au/commitees/astac Astronomers wishing to apply for time on the NCI facilities are welcome to apply through either scheme. For further clarity on the availability of, and various access avenues to, HPC facilities for Australian astronomy researchers, please see the attached document prepared by ASTAC. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: NCMAS mid-year call Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 17:26:23 +1000 From: Margaret Kahn To: all at nci.org.au If anyone knows of places to publicise this or people who may be interested please pass it on. I have done Notices and News, vayu MOTD, ANU Notices, emailed to partners and NCMAS committee members etc. Margaret ---- As the new Fujitsu Primergy, named raijin, will be available for quarter 3 the National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme is currently calling for mid-year applications for new projects requiring computational resources (processor time and related data storage) on four facilities, * the NCI National Facility ( http://nf.nci.org.au) * the Specialised Facility in Bioinformatics ( http://ncisf.qfab.org) and * the VLSCI Peak Computing Facility ( www.vlsci.org.au) * the MASSIVE Facility ( www.massive.org.au) Note that this is a call for applications for new projects. It is not intended for requests for an increase in the current grants for q3 and q4. Under the NCMAS, resources are allocated to researchers on merit through a process which assesses applications on their research quality and computational requirements and needs. Access under the NCMAS is provided for by Commonwealth (NCRIS) funding and presently researchers provided with resources under this scheme are not charged by NCI for the services provided. For the second half of 2013, the value of these resources is approximately $0.04 per core hour, an amount which can be stated as an in-kind contribution to research granting bodies (e.g., ARC, NHMRC). The closing date for applications is Monday, June 3 2013. The Call for Applications at ncmas.nci.org.au/applications provides additional background and information about the NC Merit Allocation Scheme. Please make this information available to researchers within your organisation. -- Dr Margaret Kahn, Academic consultant, ANU Supercomputer Facility, NCI National Facility, Building 143, Cnr Garran Rd and Ward Rd, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 Australia Telephone : +61 2 6125 4541 Fax : +61 2 6125 8199 E-mail : Margaret.Kahn at anu.edu.au WWW : http://nf.nci.org.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Supercomputer Resources.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 239045 bytes Desc: not available URL: