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Latest News

Call for New Projects at the NCI National Facility The NCMAS is calling for applications for new projects for the remainder of 2013.Resources are available at the NCI National Facility, the Specialised Facility for Bioinformatics at UQ , the VLSCI Peak Computing Facility and the Massive Facility. See ncmas.nci.org.au/applications for more details. The closing date is Monday June 3, 2013
Job opportunities
March/April 2013
The ANU is advertising several positions in the NCI National Facility. See here for details of open positions at ANU. The currently advertised positions are for a manager of data storage services (closing date April 14), manager of user services (closing date April 28) and academic consultant (closing date April 28).
Annual Report Call
Annual reports on both compute and data intensive projects with usage on the NCI NF and/or the NCI Specialised facilities during 2011 are due by 31 Oct 2012.
Job opportunities
10th July 2012
The ANU is advertising several positions in the NCI National Facility closing July 24. See sf.anu.edu.au/Positions_Vacant/ for details.
Petascale HPC System Tender
18th July 2011
The ANU has advertised an invitation to pre-register interest in responding to the upcoming NCI Petascale HPC System Tender.
Vayu build complete.
6 April 2010
The final two racks of the Sun/Oracle Vayu system have been put into production today. This brings vayu to its full complement of over 11900 cpus or even 140 TFlops peak computational capacity.
Vayu second stage in production.
11-12 March 2010
The second stage of the Sun/Oracle Vayu system is being merged and will be in production from Friday. The new Vayu will be a ~7x increase in capacity over the first stage.
Vayu increased in capacity
12 Feb 2010
The first stage of the new Sun Constellation cluster, vayu, was doubled in capacity today. See the following email to users for further details on the system status.
Interim Sun System Accepted
18 Sept 2009
The first stage of the new Sun Constellation cluster, vayu, has passed acceptance and is now in production.
Sun Hardware Arrives
17 July 2009
The crates containing the first stage of the new Sun hardware have arrived. The system will be installed starting 22 July 2009. It will take a few weeks for installation of the Sun hardware and the ANU software before acceptance testing commences. We expect the system to be available to users in the second half on September.
For more information see this email.


Current Notices

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Software Updates List of the latest software updates on the NCI National Facility systems.
MAS Grants Grants Information for the present and past years. The grants for each 3 month quarter are available at 0000hrs on the first day of the new quarter.

Latest Newsletter Newsletter for July 2010.
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