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National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS) committee - EOI

Expressions of interest are sought from appropriately qualified people to join the National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS) committee for a period of up to three years. The NCMAS provides access, based on research and computational merit, for researchers at Australian universities and publicly funded research agencies, to resource shares at the major national computational facilities.

To augment the size of the committee, and to provide for better coverage of research disciplines than presently exists, up to six positions are to be filled. Applicants must hold a substantive appointment at an Australian  university or a publicly funded research organistion. Women are under-represented on the committee and, accordingly, applications from suitably qualified women are strongly encouraged.

If you believe that you are well placed to contribute to the work of the Merit Allocation Committee, and share the vision of the major national computational facilities, and that of their co-investing partners, of wanting to provide access on research merit to world-class facilities through a respected and transparent allocation process, please consider submitting an Expression of Interest.

Information about the NCMAS, the work of the Committee, and details about information required in the expressions of interest is contained in the attached document – click here.

NCI’s advanced computing infrastructure, comprising a petascale HPC system, a large-scale compute cloud (primarily for data-intensive services), and multi-petabyte high-performance storage, is funded through programs of the Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, while its operations are sustained through the substantial co-investment by a number of partner organisations including ANU, CSIRO, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Geoscience Australia and a number of Australia’s research-intensive universities through the Australian Research Council.

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