The NCI Help Desk phone (02 6125 3437) remains non-accessible due to work from home and ANU phone configuration issues. Contact user support by email: help@nci.org.au and provide contact details if a phone or zoom discussion is required for a support matter.
Roger E on leave - . Support responses may be delayed during this time
Recruitments in Q2: 2x Staff Scientist (ANU7/ANU8)
Scheduled maintenance
Q2 scheduled maintenance: Tuesday (8:00 am to 6:00 pm AEST)
Q3 scheduled maintenance: Tuesday (to be confirmed)
Adapter scheme 2022
Revised Adapter scheme schedule for 2022
Committee EOI call Q1-Q2 – IN PROGRESS
Call for applications in Q2 May-June (for allocations in Q3)
Adapter: new merit-based allocation scheme providing mix of Gadi compute, cloud compute, Gdata storage.
Quarterly call for applications, for 20 MSU/Quarter resource share.
Adapter project allocations are up to 500 KSU/Q, or 250 KSU/Q for two consecutive quarters.
Adapter SU request => user specified combination of Gadi, Gdata, Cloud resources.
Adapter proposals require a data management plan. Quarterly call schedule requires that data entitlements will expire at grant completion. Data expiry grace periods to be confirmed.
Adapter is well suited to projects with:
mixed compute and storage requirements,
seasonal or sporadic workloads,
data-dependent workloads,
single-cpu or single-node workflows.
ALCG 2022 call for applications
Australasian Leadership Computing Grants: 2022 call for allocations FY 2022-2023.
150 MSU/year available to support successful proposals. Target: 2-4 projects.
ALCG call has two phases
Expressions of Interest – March 2022: 6 of 12 EOI's invited to submit full proposals; total compute request ~240 MSU.
Invited applications – April 2022: IN PROGRESS
Ambitious proposals are encouraged!
Gadi /scratch
Gadi scratch file quarantine-expiry will start in May 2022.