From mita.brierley at astronomyaustralia.org.au Mon Nov 25 16:06:22 2013 From: mita.brierley at astronomyaustralia.org.au (Mita Brierley) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:06:22 +1100 Subject: [ASA] Reminder: Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee Call for Proposals for Q1-Q2 2014 - closes in a week Message-ID: <009b01cee99c$159d6690$40d833b0$@astronomyaustralia.org.au> Reminder: Call closes 9am AEDT Monday 2nd December 2013 Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee: Call for Proposals - NCI peak facility and Green II (gSTAR/swinSTAR) ** Call closes at 9am (AEDT) Monday 2nd December, 2013 ** Attached is a call for proposals for time on two Australian Supercomputer Facilities for Q1-Q2 in 2014. The same information is available on the Astronomy Australia Limited website at http://www.astronomyaustralia.org.au/commitees/astac We would like to draw your attention to the following key points: 1. ASTAC encourages potential applicants to contact us should you require any technical or scientific advice. 2. The GPU facility gSTAR, part of the Swinburne University of Technology Green II machine, offers users an opportunity for very high performance computational power for appropriately written code. 3. The deadline for this current round of proposals is 9am (AEDT), Monday 2nd December, 2013 so that there is adequate time to prepare a good proposal. 4. ASTAC is particularly keen to encourage graduate students and early career researchers to become involved in this rapidly developing field, which offers the capacity to perform simulations of numerous astrophysical situations at high resolution and in three dimensions. Advisers are available to assist people in getting started in this area. 5. For this call, ASTAC is allowing applications to be led (Lead Chief Investigator) by PhD students, with their thesis supervisor as a Chief Investigator. PhD students who would like to lead their application please contact Mita Brierley (mita.brierley at astronomyaustralia.org.au) by Monday 25th November, 2013. ASTAC would like to highlight the benefits of showing leadership on successful time allocation applications to a student's CV. 6. Along with this call for proposals, ASTAC is circulating a Supercomputer Resource document to outline and clarify for users the high-performance computing facilities and access avenues available to Australian astronomers. If you would like to directly receive ASTAC news and announcements, you can sign up to our mailing list at: http://www.astronomyaustralia.org.au/commitees/astac ASTAC Mark George Beckett (iVEC representative; ex-officio), Geoff Bicknell (Australian National University), Ben Evans (NCI representative; ex-officio), Luke Hodkinson (Swinburne supercomputer user consultant), Jarrod Hurley (Swinburne Supercomputer Manager; ex-officio), John Lattanzio (Monash University), Geraint Lewis (Chair, University of Sydney), Katherine Mack (University of Melbourne), Steve Ord (Curtin University), Jon Smillie (NCI user consultant). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ASTAC Announcement Q1-Q2 2014.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 141711 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Supercomputer Resources v2-1.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 73942 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00001.txt URL: