[ASA] Reminder - ASTAC Call for Proposals for astronomy supercomputing time in Q1-Q2 2022 (ASTAC 2022-A) closes this Friday

[Jarrod Hurley]

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Subject: [ASA] ASTAC Call for Proposals for astronomy supercomputing time in Q1-Q2 2022 (ASTAC 2022-A)



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Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ASTAC 2022-A

** The current call for proposals closes at 8pm Friday 26th November 2021 **





The Astronomy Supercomputer Time Allocation Committee (ASTAC) call for proposals for Q1-Q2 2022 is now open. The deadline for this call is 8pm Friday 26th November 2021.


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/md_3CXLW2mUXozAOZh65ls3?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/N4TwCYW8NocL24YAXfG8cjG?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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