Table of Contents
- Call for Merit Allocations for 2007
- Plans to transition to New Data System at the National Facility
- AC change to SLES 10
- Updates to Software
- Scope resource access extended to some partner facilities
- APAC Summer School at QUT
- OzViz2006: October 30-31 at UWA
- Summer Internships
- APAC Courses
- Staffing updates
| Call for Merit Allocations for 2007 |
A call for applications to the Merit Allocation Scheme for NEW and EXISTING projects
for compute time from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2007 is now open. The form also provides for
applications for time on APAC partner systems via the National Grid.
Information on the Merit Scheme and how to submit applications is at http://nf.apac.edu.au/accounts/call_for_applications.php. Applications close on 6 November 2007. Please distribute this information to colleagues in your area. |
| Plans to transition to New Data System at the National Facility | |
| AC change to SLES 10 | |
| Software update |
New software is continually being added to the AC. In particular there have been recent upgrades to dmol3
and more Matlab Statistics Toolbox licenses have been purchased.
Details on using software is
given at
http://nf.apac.edu.au/facilities/software/ |
| Scope resource access extended to some partner facilities | |
| APAC Summer School at QUT |
The APAC Summer School in Computational Science is being held in Brisbane at the QUT from December 4-8.
It is funded by APAC to provide training in the
techniques and tools of computational science. It is aimed at postgraduate students and completing
honours students, but summer vacation scholars will also be considered. Interested academics are also
able to attend.
The workshop will be of benefit to students who already have some experience in writing computer code and who are using or planning to use intense computations in their research. In particular the school may be of interest to people in the following disciplines, among others:
Applications for scholarships to the Summer School have now closed but more information can be obtained from the school web site, http://auriga.qut.edu.au:8080/apacsummerschool |
| OzViz 2006: October 30-31 at UWA | The
Western Australian Supercomputer Project (WASP) are hosting the fifth
annual OzViz workshop. The OzViz workshops are a chance for Australian visualisation and VR practioners to get together and share experiences. Works in progress and students talks are encouraged, as well as more visualisation research oriented presentations. To quote the web site - 'This workshop will be held in the spirit of previous ones: short, practical presentations by people who are active practitioners in the visualisation field.' |
| Summer Internships | |
| APAC Courses |
Staff of the APAC National Facility provide a range of training courses on using the
National Facility machines and programming techniques.
The full list is given on the
training web page. These courses have
been updated to be relevant to the Altix Cluster and several of them
have been held recently at ANU and iVec.
If you would like any of these courses given at a different partner site please contact us and it can be arranged. As these are hands-on courses we ask that a representative from the site arranges for access to a computer teaching lab with web access and a method of obtaining secure shell logins to the AC. |
| Staffing Updates |