NCI LIEF (LE190100021) Information

The University of Melbourne is pleased to announce our partnership in a LIEF grant to provide access to 10 million Service Units (SU) per annum at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) for the University of Melbourne research community.  This allocation will be available to researchers wishing to establish computationally intensive research projects, to extend existing NCMAS projects, or to explore the potential of the national peak facility.

The program has already launched for 2019, so we are looking for proposals for immediate allocation in Q1.  Allocations are awarded for each quarter and are reviewed by a resource allocation committee and a technical team. See below for the 2019 deadlines.

Access is at no cost to the user, but is based on merit.

Quarter

Submission deadline

Notification date

Q1 2019

Feb 22*

Mar 01

Q2 2019

Mar 15

Mar 22

Q3 2019

May 31

Jun 14

Q4 2019

Aug 16

Aug 30

*This is a nominal deadline because we are already over halfway through Q1, however we are still happy to receive applications for Q1 up until the credits for Q1 have been allocated.  Subsequent applications will be pushed to Q2.

You can find a copy of the submission template here.

Please email any questions and completed forms to bmeade@unimelb.edu.au

Frequently Asked Questions
  • What is a Service Unit?
    A Service Unit (SU) is a way of calculating the usage of services, and is based on core hours.  
    For example, a XSU = factor * wall time * core hours, where the factor for UoM researchers is 1.0.
  • Can I run containers at NCI?
    There is limited container support using Singularity.  A consultation with the NCI support team will be required to set this up.
  • What is the price per core hour at NCI?
    Cores are charged at a rate of $0.04 per hour (this is not charged directly to the user)
  • What computing platforms are available at NCI?
    You can find a list of the NCI compute hardware here: http://nci.org.au/systems-services/peak-system/raijin/