[ASA] ASTAC Call for Proposals for astronomy supercomputing time in Q1-Q2 2021 (ASTAC 2021-A) - UPDATED DEADLINE AND LINK

Jarrod Hurley jhurley at swin.edu.au
Thu Nov 12 13:16:24 AEDT 2020



 Please note that the ASTAC call for 2021-A proposals has been updated with an extended deadline and an updated link for accessing the information sheet (in the earlier announcement the hyperlink took you to the sheet for the previous call).

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Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ASTAC 2021-A

** The current call for proposals closes at 8pm AEDT Monday 23rd November 2020 **





The Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation call for proposals for Q1-Q2 2021 is now open. The deadline for this call is 8pm Monday 23rd November 2020.


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) and up to 500 virtual CPUs to allocate on OpenStack virtual machines on the NeCTAR network.



The following resources are available:

  1.  NCI Astronomy Program: up to 4,000 kSUs on the Gadi system;
  2.  Swinburne: up to 2,000 kSUs on OzSTAR;
  3.  OpenStack Virtual Machines: up to 500 virtual CPUs.

Full details on ASTAC and the current call can be found at:


https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/SFk5C71R2NTNxA0yI8KUv1?domain=astronomyaustralia.org.au


or you can access the information sheet for the current call, including details on how to apply, directly via:


https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/lQiMC81V0PTqZ6AQC1Z0lE?domain=astronomyaustralia.org.au



ASTAC is formed by Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL) and the ASTAC process is managed by Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS).


Best regards,

Jarrod Hurley (on behalf of ADACS and ASTAC)








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