Open Call for Monash NCI Scheme 2025 Q2

17 March 2025

Monash eResearch, in partnership with the Faculties of Science, Engineering and IT, has acquired HPCaaS (HPC as a Service) capacity from the National Computing Infrastructure - NCI (https://nci.org.au/).  The allocations provide access to the NCI Gadi HPC cluster and project data storage. The resources are available quarterly to Monash researchers and HDR students through a competitive but lightweight application process.

Monash eResearch has also acquired HPCaaS capacity from the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, which is expected to be available in 2025 Q3.

Please review the NCI SU model to evaluate the SU budget required.

The request limits:

  • Minimum: 1 kSU
  • Maximum: 600 kSU

IMPORTANT:

  • The capacity available to Monash through NCI has increased in 2025, so eResearch is looking to support extra capacity for projects.
  • Applications will be accepted from Wednesday, March 20 2025, at 9:00am and close on Friday, March 28 2025, at 11:00pm AEDT.
  • Existing projects must submit a report before applying for more capacity. Please proceed to the report here.

Terms and Conditions

  1. HDR students are expected to apply themselves, but the allocations can be requested to be added to a joint project at NCI.
  2. Unused allocation will expire at the end of the term and can’t be rolled over automatically to the next term.
  3. For the approved grants greater than 300 kSU, 50% will be initially provided.
  4. Usage is monitored and might be reduced mid-term if it is below 30%.
  5. Excessive unused allocation by the end of the term will likely reduce the chances for an extension. eResearch recommends that researchers plan accordingly for compute and data requirements. Also, excessive unused allocation mid-term may be removed and returned to the resource pool for reallocation unless a valid assurance can be made that the allocation will be fully utilised by the end of the term.
  6. More resources can be requested if the provisioned allocation has reached 80% and is insufficient. Please contact Monash eResearch at hpc@monash.edu.

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Please contact hpc@monash.edu for any enquiries.

  1. Request a modest and realistic amount of compute and storage and ask to top it up when you are ready to use more.