Skip to content
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
  • Home
  • About Us
    • About Us
      • History
      • The Pawsey Centre
      • Discover Setonix
      • Our green credentials
      • Centre Virtual Tour
    • Our People
      • Board & Management
      • Staff List
      • Pawsey’s business response to COVID-19
    • Documentation
      • Documents Library & Annual Reports
      • Pawsey Impact Study
    • Contact
      • Pawsey Friends
      • Jobs
  • Systems & Services
    • Training
      • Which service is right for me?
      • Intern Alumni Profiles
      • Intern Showcase Feb 2023
      • Pawsey Internships: Call for Projects
      • Pawsey Internships: Call for Students
      • Intern Project Guidelines for Assessment
      • Upcoming events
      • Past events
    • Supercomputing
      • Setonix
      • Galaxy
      • Garrawarla
      • Topaz
      • National Merit Allocation Scheme
      • Pawsey Centre for Extreme Scale Readiness (PaCER)
    • Data & Cloud
      • Acacia
      • Banksia
      • Data Portal
      • Nimbus
    • Visualisation
      • Visualisation
      • Nebula
      • Topaz RemoteVis
      • Visualisation Lab
  • New Technologies
    • New Technologies
      • Technology Refresh
      • Quantum Technologies
  • Science Showcase
    • Science Showcase
      • Case Studies
      • Project Allocations
      • 2023 Allocations
      • Publications
      • Voices of Science
      • COVID-19 Accelerated Access Initiatives
  • News & Events
    • News & Events
      • News
      • Events
      • Friends Newsletter
      • Technical Newsletter
      • Pawsey Conference/Event Support Guidelines
      • Pawsey In The Media
  • Support
  • User Portal
  • Status
Apply now
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
Apply now
  • Home
  • About Us
    • About Us
      • History
      • The Pawsey Centre
      • Discover Setonix
      • Our green credentials
      • Centre Virtual Tour
    • Our People
      • Board & Management
      • Staff List
      • Pawsey’s business response to COVID-19
    • Documentation
      • Documents Library & Annual Reports
      • Pawsey Impact Study
    • Contact
      • Pawsey Friends
      • Jobs
  • Systems & Services
    • Training
      • Which service is right for me?
      • Intern Alumni Profiles
      • Intern Showcase Feb 2023
      • Pawsey Internships: Call for Projects
      • Pawsey Internships: Call for Students
      • Intern Project Guidelines for Assessment
      • Upcoming events
      • Past events
    • Supercomputing
      • Setonix
      • Galaxy
      • Garrawarla
      • Topaz
      • National Merit Allocation Scheme
      • Pawsey Centre for Extreme Scale Readiness (PaCER)
    • Data & Cloud
      • Acacia
      • Banksia
      • Data Portal
      • Nimbus
    • Visualisation
      • Visualisation
      • Nebula
      • Topaz RemoteVis
      • Visualisation Lab
  • New Technologies
    • New Technologies
      • Technology Refresh
      • Quantum Technologies
  • Science Showcase
    • Science Showcase
      • Case Studies
      • Project Allocations
      • 2023 Allocations
      • Publications
      • Voices of Science
      • COVID-19 Accelerated Access Initiatives
  • News & Events
    • News & Events
      • News
      • Events
      • Friends Newsletter
      • Technical Newsletter
      • Pawsey Conference/Event Support Guidelines
      • Pawsey In The Media
  • Support
  • User Portal
  • Status
National Merit Allocation Scheme
National Merit Allocation Scheme

National Merit Allocation Scheme

The National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme is Australia’s premiere grant scheme for access to high-performance computing (HPC) resources. The two Tier-1 HPC facilities in Australia, the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) and the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, together offer hundreds of millions of hours of computing time to meritorious researchers.

NCMAS provides access, based on research and computational merit, for researchers at Australian universities and publicly funded research agencies, to resources at the major national HPC facilities.

Key dates

Dates Milestone
15 August 2022 Applications open
3 October 2022 Applications close at 7:00pm AEST (5:00pm AWST)
30 Nov, 1-2 December 2022 Allocation Committee meeting
12 December 2022 Allocations announced
1 Jan 2023 Access to allocations commences

 

APPLY FOR NCMAS HERE

Eligibility

An applicant (Lead CI) must be based in Australia and hold a substantive position at an Australian university, research institute, or Government science agency, with appointment at 0.2 FTE or greater.The primary applicant (Lead CI) must have a track record of research funding via ARC, NHMRC, or industry funding scheme.

There are three NCMAS Application Categories:

  1. Open (Unrestricted)
  2. Early Career Researcher (ECR)
  3. Special Consideration

ECR and Special Consideration allocations are the minimum allocation of the requested facility. ECR or Special Consideration applications must request compute on one HPC facility only.

Pawsey compute resources available in 2023

System  Total Allocation (kSU)  Equivalent Core Hours
 Setonix CPU 295,000 295,000,000
 Setonix GPU 160,000 275,000,000*

All references to computational resources in NCMAS supporting documentation will be in units of kilo-service-units; 1 kSU = 1,000 service units (SU).
* AMD GPU Compute Unit (CU) hours, with 220 Compute Units per single AMD MI250X GPU

Supporting Documentation

  • Information for Applicants
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • ORCID User Guide
  • Application Form – Quick View (Screenshots and descriptions)

Further supporting information for your NCMAS application can be found here https://my.nci.org.au/mancini/ncmas/2023/

Changes in Pawsey’s Supercomputing Services for 2023 

There have been some key changes to Pawsey’s Supercomputing Services for 2023 and we invite all researchers to read the summary of main changes to Pawsey supercomputing services in 2023, including changes in allocation schemes: https://support.pawsey.org.au/documentation/display/US/Changes+in+Supercomputing+Services+for+2023 

For any further queries or information, please contact help@pawsey.org.au

 

APPLY FOR NCMAS HERE

Back to top
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Science Showcase
  • News & Events
  • Support
  • User Portal
  • Contact
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is supported by $90 million funding as part of the Australian Government's measures to support national research infrastructure under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and related programs through the Department of Education.
Pawsey Computing Centre logo
Copyright Pawsey Computing Centre 2023
Website by harmonic