Outcomes
Allocations displayed below were determined in a meeting of the NCMAS Scientific Advisory Committee.
- All values are kilo-service units (kSU). 1 service unit (SU) does not necessarily equal 1 cpu-hour. Please refer to each facility's documentation for more information on their charging rates.
| Project ID | Lead CI | Institution | Project Title | Allocations (kSU) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gadi | Setonix CPU | Setonix GPU | Setonix Q Pilot | Total | ||||
| NCMAS- |
Fengwang Li | University of Sydney | Advanced Computational Frameworks for Accurate DFT Simulations of Electrocatalytic Reactions | 1,100 | 1,100 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Haoxin Mai | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | Halide Perovskite Optoelectronics Developed by Integrated Synthesis, Calculation and Artificial Intelligence Methods | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Matthew Field | James Cook University | Developing Bioinformatics Capability to Diagnose Infectious Diseases using Clinical Metagenomics | 2,200 | 2,200 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Zhenhai Xia | University of NSW | COMPUTATIONAL DISCOVERY OF NOVEL CARBON CATALYSTS FOR GREEN CHEMICAL PRODUCTION | 6,800 | 6,800 | |||
| NCMAS- |
David Edwards | University of Western Australia | Analysis of complex genomes | 4,000 | 300 | 4,300 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Min Hong | University of Southern Queensland | Computationally driven high-performance thermoelectric materials and devices | 1,000 | 1,000 | 2,000 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Jared Cole | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | The materials science of next generation quantum devices. | 1,500 | 1,500 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Jason Evans | University of NSW | Regional Climate Modelling in Australia | 7,300 | 2,900 | 10,200 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Abhirup Dikshit | University of NSW | Flash Drought & Fires | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Eduardo Eyras | Australian National University | A scalable computational pipeline for molecular design | 1,900 | 1,900 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Adrian Pudsey | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | Aerothermodynamics of High Speed Flight and Enabling Technologies | 5,100 | 2,400 | 7,500 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Liam Scarlett | Curtin University of Technology | Atomic and Molecular Collision Theory | 4,500 | 24,600 | 9,700 | 38,800 | |
| NCMAS- |
Ravi Jagadeeshan | Monash University | Sticky polymers in flow: Nexus between microscopic and macroscopic dynamics | 4,500 | 4,500 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Tanveer Hussain | University of New England | Computational Design of Electrode Additives for Sodium-Based Batteries | 1,000 | 1,000 | 2,000 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Julian Gale | Curtin University of Technology | Atomistic Simulation for Geochemistry and Nanoscience | 2,900 | 9,600 | 4,800 | 17,300 | |
| NCMAS- |
Tilo Ziehn | CSIRO | Exploring climate and carbon cycle uncertainties through large ensemble simulations with ACCESS-ESM1.6 | 10,188 | 10,188 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Zhigang Chen | Queensland University of Technology | Design thermoelectric materials using first-principle calculation and machine learning | 3,900 | 3,900 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Andrew Christofferson | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | Optimizing liquid systems for catalytic, biomolecular, and nanomedicine applications | 2,000 | 500 | 3,400 | 5,900 | |
| NCMAS- |
Catherine Stampfl | University of Sydney | First-Principles Investigations of Processes and Properties in Catalysis, Coatings, and Devices | 7,600 | 7,000 | 14,600 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Julio Soria | Monash University | Investigation of the structure, evolution and transport properties of turbulent wall-bounded shear flows using direct numerical simulations | 10,000 | 31,200 | 41,200 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Steven Sherwood | University of NSW | Improving atmospheric modelling across scales | 2,500 | 2,500 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Riddhi Gupta | University of Queensland | Quantum computing algorithms for biomedicine | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Tongliang Liu | University of Sydney | Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials for Transition State Modeling | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Christoph Federrath | Australian National University | From Interstellar Turbulence to the Formation of Stars | 8,800 | 24,000 | 800 | 33,600 | |
| NCMAS- |
Liangzhi Kou | Queensland University of Technology | Data-Driven Exploration of 2D Functional Materials for Physical and Chemical Applications | 3,200 | 3,400 | 6,600 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Michelle Spencer | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | Modelling Nanoscale Materials for Catalysis, Sensing and Device Applications | 3,900 | 8,900 | 12,800 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Kiet Tieu | University of Wollongong | Numerical Modelling of MXenes Nanoparticles in Lubrications | 2,800 | 2,800 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Junxian Liu | Queensland University of Technology | Electrocatalytic C−N Coupling for Sustainable Urea and Formamide Synthesis | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Zhe Liu | University of Melbourne | Integrated Computational Materials Engineering for Energy Materials | 6,900 | 19,000 | 2,000 | 27,900 | |
| NCMAS- |
Christoph Arns | University of NSW | Multi-scale multi-physics modelling for geostorage applicatons | 7,400 | 7,400 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Steven Armfield | University of Sydney | Large Scale Natural Convection Boundary Layers with Variable Fluid Properties | 1,100 | 2,600 | 3,700 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Lars Goerigk | University of Melbourne | Theoretical and Computational Quantum Chemistry Including Development of Computational Methods and Computational Materials Science | 1,100 | 1,100 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Jack Evans | University of Adelaide | Simulations of materials for gas separations and heterogeneous catalysis | 1,400 | 1,400 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Ha Bui | Monash University | Modelling gravity-induced rock fracture and fragmentation flow in cave mining: bridging laboratory and field scales | 3,100 | 3,100 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Ben Corry | Australian National University | Molecular simulation of membrane channels, transporters and receptors | 5,800 | 12,300 | 18,100 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Katrin Meissner | University of NSW | Abrupt climate change events in the past, present and future | 7,000 | 7,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Chao Xiong | University of Western Sydney | How climate extremes shape microbiome functions and plant disease | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Giuseppe Barca | Australian National University | High-Accuracy, AI- and Quantum-Driven Digital Drug Design | 10,100 | 12,500 | 22,600 | ||
| NCMAS- |
David Pontin | University of Newcastle | Probing the origins of the Solar Wind with global-scale MHD simulations | 1,500 | 1,500 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Rhodri Davies | Australian National University | Revealing the 4-D Evolution of Earth's Engine | 8,300 | 6,300 | 14,600 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Leon Chan | University of Melbourne | Numerical simulations of rough-wall boundary layers | 3,300 | 3,500 | 1,800 | 8,600 | |
| NCMAS- |
Nicolas Flament | University of Wollongong | The influence of mantle dynamics on the evolution of complex life | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Luke Bennetts | University of Melbourne | Assessing wave–sea ice interactions in a coupled ocean–sea ice–wave model | 3,400 | 3,400 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Fangbao Tian | UNSW Canberra | Bio-inspired Unmanned/Micro Aerial Vehicles and Aerodynamics on Mars | 6,600 | 6,600 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Bishakhdatta Gayen | University of Melbourne | The role of convection and turbulent mixing in ocean circulation | 2,700 | 11,000 | 13,700 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Tyler Rohr | University of Tasmania | mCDrive: Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Impact and Validation Experiments | 3,100 | 3,100 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Santiago Badia | Monash University | Towards large-scale forward and inverse solvers for multiphysics problems with moving interfaces | 1,300 | 1,300 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Charlotte Petersen | University of Melbourne | Predictive Modelling of Metallic Nanoglasses: Structure, Dynamics, and Machine-Learned Glass Formability | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Nicholas Chilton | Australian National University | Nanoscale magnetic memory elements | 2,800 | 2,800 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Susanna Guatelli | University of Wollongong | Development and use of Monte Carlo particle transport simulations for medical physics applications | 4,300 | 4,300 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Haibo Yu | University of Wollongong | Computer simulations of molecular systems and computer-aided molecular design | 4,000 | 7,300 | 7,200 | 18,500 | |
| NCMAS- |
Yan Jiao | University of Adelaide | Design Clean Energy Conversion and Storage Materials by Molecular Modelling | 8,800 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 11,200 | |
| NCMAS- |
Mark Krumholz | Australian National University | Star Formation and Feedback in a Turbulent Interstellar Medium | 10,000 | 12,300 | 22,300 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Daniel Chung | University of Melbourne | Direct numerical simulation of wall-bounded and buoyancy-driven turbulent flows | 1,600 | 25,000 | 700 | 27,300 | |
| NCMAS- |
Nikhil Medhekar | Monash University | Nanoscale Materials: From Atomic Structure to Functional Properties | 9,600 | 9,800 | 19,400 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Ekaterina Pas | Monash University | Development of Next-Generation Density Functional Theory | 7,400 | 1,000 | 8,400 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Rajib Rana | Australian University | Closing the Causality Gap: A Computational Framework for Validating Allosteric Drug Mechanisms | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Jessica Jein White | CSIRO | Quantum vs Classical: Investigating Geochemically Relevant Small Molecules on Setonix-Q | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Amir Karton | University of New England | AI-Driven Discovery for Regional Australia: Predictive Quantum Chemistry for Energy and Water Solutions | 2,000 | 2,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Lisa Alexander | University of NSW | Extreme rainfall in regional climate model simulations | 2,900 | 2,900 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Lei Wang | Griffith University | LiteMotion: Learning Efficient and Scalable Video Motion Representations | 2,400 | 2,400 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Simon Ringer | University of Sydney | Exploring structure-property correlations in advanced materials: Nexus between computational simulation and atomic resolution microscopy | 7,000 | 1,500 | 8,500 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Hrvoje Tkalčić | Australian National University | Seismological Studies of Earthquakes and Earth’s Internal Structure at a Plate Boundary | 4,000 | 4,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Luca Casagrande | Australian National University | Modelling the Evolution and Spectra of Stars: 3D Magneto-Hydrodynamic Stellar Atmosphere, Non-Equilibrium Radiative Transfer, and Machine Learning Generative Models | 8,500 | 8,500 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Karen Wilson | Griffith University | Elucidating CO2-to-Organonitrogen Conversion via Enhanced Sampling Simulations with Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials | 2,500 | 2,500 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Andrew Ooi | University of Melbourne | Fluid Mechanics in Environmental Sustainability: Numerical Simulations, Data-Driven Insights and Mathematical Models | 5,100 | 9,800 | 7,200 | 22,100 | |
| NCMAS- |
Angli Xue | Garvan Institute of Medical Research | Identifying and characterising gene regulatory networks of autoimmune diseases at single-cell resolution | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Francesco Campaioli | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | Controlling the relaxation rate of Rydberg atom arrays | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Huijun Li | University of Wollongong | Accelerating Single Atomic Catalyst Design for CO2 Electrochemical Reduction through Synergy of Advanced Computational Machine Learning Techniques | 1,700 | 1,700 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Claire Vincent | University of Melbourne | Clouds, rain and Climate: Mapping a hierarchy of cloud, ocean feedbacks and rainfall processes to our global climate system. | 5,100 | 5,100 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Nehad Elsalamouny | University of Wollongong | Computer Simulations of Biomolecular Systems: Unveiling Mechanisms and Functions | 400 | 600 | 1,000 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Christopher Leonardi | University of Queensland | Direct numerical simulation of multiphase flows in complex geometries | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Xiaotian WANG | University of Wollongong | Topological phonons in solids | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Tiffany Walsh | Deakin University | Development and application of nano interfacial simulations | 2,300 | 2,300 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Mark Thompson | Monash University | Transition, stability and control of bluff body flows and wakes | 1,800 | 1,800 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Edward Doddridge | University of Tasmania | Antarctic systems and future change | 9,000 | 9,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Junming Ho | University of NSW | Accelerating the Design of Novel Catalysts and Drugs through Computational Chemistry | 3,700 | 600 | 5,400 | 9,700 | |
| NCMAS- |
Matthew England | University of NSW | Past, present and future climate variability and change in the Southern Ocean | 9,700 | 9,700 | |||
| NCMAS- |
James Zanotti | University of Adelaide | Quantum chromodynamics in focus: hadron structure and high-precision tests | 6,200 | 11,500 | 12,300 | 1,000 | 31,000 |
| NCMAS- |
Alan Mark | University of Queensland | From molecules to cells: Probing the structural, dynamic and quantum dynamic properties of cellular components at an atomic level. | 4,900 | 14,600 | 9,800 | 29,300 | |
| NCMAS- |
Judy Hart | University of NSW | Design and development of photoactive and catalytic materials for efficient solar conversion | 2,500 | 2,500 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Adele Morrison | Australian National University | The Ocean’s role in the climate system: from kilometres to global scales, from weeks to centuries | 9,200 | 9,200 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Stephan Rachel | University of Melbourne | Testing a next-generation quantum computer under real-world conditions | 2,200 | 2,200 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Anna Trigos | Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre | High performance compute for better personalised medicine for cancer patients | 1,700 | 1,700 | 3,400 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Joanna Achinger-Kawecka | University of Adelaide | Establishing the Regulatory Function of Transposable Elements in Cancer | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Richard Sandberg | University of Melbourne | High-fidelity simulations of turbulent flows in power generation and transport | 5,000 | 9,000 | 12,800 | 6,000 | 32,800 |
| NCMAS- |
Cheong Xin Chan | University of Queensland | Comparative and Evolutionary Genomics of Microbes from Diverse Marine Environments | 7,300 | 7,300 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Vincent Wheatley | University of Queensland | Advancing the Science of Hypersonic Propulsion and Aerothermodynamics | 11,200 | 11,200 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Michelle Coote | Flinders University | Computer-aided Chemical Design of Catalysts and Control Agents | 9,100 | 9,100 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Xiaoguang Duan | University of Adelaide | Molecular Insights into Single Atom Catalysis for Water Decontamination | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Robert Edwards | Flinders University | Combining metagenomics and AI to discover and understand novel bacteriophages and viruses | 3,300 | 12,600 | 15,900 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Ben Woodcroft | Queensland University of Technology | Large scale reconstruction of novel microbial genomes | 4,400 | 4,400 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Fatemeh Vafaee | University of NSW | AI-Driven Precision Medicine and Drug Discovery | 2,000 | 2,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Rajib Rahman | University of NSW | Multiscale Multiphysics Simulations of Silicon Quantum Information Processing Units | 8,800 | 8,800 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Evatt Hawkes | University of NSW | Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Combustion | 5,500 | 17,700 | 12,600 | 35,800 | |
| NCMAS- |
Kasimir Gregory | University of New England | GPU-Accelerated Molecular Simulations for Circular-Economy Photovoltaics | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Emilio Echevarria | CSIRO | Hybrid Modelling of Coastal Hazards Using Synthetic Tropical Cyclones and Machine Learning Surrogate Models | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Toby Allen | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | Mechanisms of ion channel function and modulation. | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Debra Bernhardt | University of Queensland | Molecular systems out of equilibrium: theory, simulation and application | 2,000 | 8,000 | 2,700 | 12,700 | |
| NCMAS- |
Olga Zinovieva | UNSW Canberra | High performance process-structure-property-performance simulations for advanced manufacturing | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Mohsen Talei | University of Melbourne | Developing predictive tools for cleaner combustion | 4,000 | 7,600 | 11,600 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Megan O'Mara | University of Queensland | Multiscale Simulations for Precision Biotechnology: Molecular Self-Assembly in Dynamic Environments | 7,700 | 7,500 | 6,400 | 21,600 | |
| NCMAS- |
Albert Henry | Garvan Institute of Medical Research | DINGO: Drug Target Identification using Next-Generation Omics | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Hongwei An | University of Western Australia | Advanced numerical modelling for developing safer and more efficient ocean infrastructure | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Carla Verdi | University of Queensland | First-principles design and characterisation of materials for quantum technologies, clean energy and spintronics | 3,500 | 3,200 | 6,700 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Bram Hoex | University of NSW | Agentic Multimodal Large-Language-Model Framework for Autonomous De Novo Inorganic Crystal Design | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| NCMAS- |
Alexander Heger | Monash University | 3D Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae | 6,300 | 7,400 | 13,700 | ||
| NCMAS- |
Gemma Galbraith | James Cook University | Resolving Depth-Dependent Connectivity | 1,000 | 1,000 | |||
| Total | 384,888 | 325,000 | 160,000 | 12,000 | 881,888 | |||

