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Setonix will experience downtime in the beginning of January 2023 while final acceptance testing is carried out

Most important changes

  • Submissions From 2023 allocation round, submissions to NCMAS and Pawsey Partner Schemes can now include Setonix CPU and Setonix GPU requests.
  • Minimum allocation request size is now 1M Service Units.
  • New accounting Accounting model for Setonix now includes Service Units definition for both Setonix CPU and GPU partitions.    
  • There will be is no Pawsey Partner top-up allocations starting from 2023 allocation round. Researchers can apply to both NCMAS and Pawsey Partner Scheme subject to the eligibility and conditions of these schemes.
  • Pawsey has improved technical review process, scalability criteria is now covering both CPU and GPU parallel scalability as well as data workflows scalability.
  • The new Preparatory Access Scheme is is now available for researchers who need to port and benchmark their codes and workflows before applying to one of the merit allocation schemes.

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15th August 2021 - 18th September 2022 (5pm AEDT 30 Nov, 1-2 December 2022
MilestonePawsey Partner SchemeNCMAS

Call Open

15th 21st August 2022 2023 - 3rd October 2022 (5pm AWST)

October 2023 (5pm AWST) extended to 9th October 2023 (5pm AWST)

21st August 2023 - 3rd October 2023 (5pm AWST)
Submissions Portalhttps://ssl.linklings.net/organizations/pawsey/https://my.nci.org.au/mancini/ncmas/20232024/

Committee Meetings

1st half of December 2022

7th December 2023

4-5 December 2023

Applicants Notified

22nd December 20222023

 12 18 December 20222023


Available resources for

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2024 allocations (Pawsey Supercomputing Centre)

Single application to National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS) and Pawsey Partner Merit Allocation Scheme schemes can now include Setonix-CPU and Setonix-GPU requests. Researchers can apply only for Setonix-CPU allocation, only for Setonix-GPU allocation or for both.

The minimum allocation request for National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS) and Pawsey Partner Merit Allocation Scheme is 1M Service Units.

Resources available in 2023 2024 allocation round are presented in table 1.

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Table 1. Resources available on Setonix for the 2023 2024 allocation round

Scheme

Request

full year

National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme

Scheme total capacity

455M 485M Service Units Total:

  • 295M 325M Service Units (core hours) on Setonix-CPU
  • 160M Service Units on Setonix-GPU
Minimum request size

1M Service Units

Pawsey Partner Merit Allocation SchemeScheme total capacity

540M 575M Service Units

  • 350M 385M Service Units (core hours) on Setonix-CPU
  • 190M Service Units on Setonix-GPU
Minimum request size1M Service Units


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