ANU Merit Allocation Scheme

2020 Outcomes

Allocations determined in a meeting of the ANU Allocation Committee on Wednesday 11 December 2019 (NCI Board Room). Values are in both kilo-core-hours (Kcore-hours) and kilo-service units (KSU). 1 core-hour is equivalent to 2 service units (SU) for Gadi.

Project Code Lead CI Institution Project Title Gadi Allocation (Kcore-hours) Gadi Allocation (KSU)
ek9 Christoph Federrath College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Modelling Turbulence, the Formation of the First Stars, Magnetised Clouds, Supernova Explosions, and Binary Star Formation 24200 48400
x77 Andrew Hogg College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences The Dynamics of the Southern Ocean 24200 48400
y89 Martin Asplund College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences 3D magneto-hydrodynamical stellar modelling and 3D non-equilibrium radiative transfer 15000 30000
ml39 Sean Smith College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Materials for Sustainable Energy Applications 11000 22000
g15 Ben Corry College of Medicine, Biology and Environment Simulation studies of biological and synthetic channels 8800 17600
q95 Megan O'Mara College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Biomolecular recognition, self-assembly and dynamics 8250 16500
xd2 Rhodri Davies College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Revealing the 4-D Evolution of Earth's Engine 6600 13200
jh2 Mark Krumholz College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Star Formation and Feedback in a Turbulent Interstellar Medium 6600 13200
x69 Michelle Coote College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Computer-aided Chemical Design of Catalysts and Control Agents 5000 10000
n72 Geoffrey Bicknell College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Astrophysical Jets and Winds and their Interactions with the Ambient Medium 3300 6600
xe8 Malcolm Sambridge College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Unleashing the power of data: the next generation of geophysical inference 3300 6600
xe2 Justin Borevitz College of Medicine, Biology and Environment Linking Genotype, Phenotype and Landscape to improve Plant Energy 2200 4400
w09 Adrian Sheppard College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Understanding petrophysical and multiphase flow properties of rock through experiment, 3D imaging and modelling 2200 4400
tz21 Sebastien Allgeyer College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Earth deformation and mass transport 1760 3520
te53 Simon Easteal College of Medicine, Biology and Environment The National Centre for Indigenous Genomics 1650 3300
nm03 Callum Shakespeare College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Wave-eddy-mean flow dynamics 1650 3300
xc17 (12720) Eduardo Eyras College of Medicine, Biology and Environment Unveiling the complexity of genomes and transcriptomes with nanopore sequencing 1650 3300
u86 Carola Vinuesa College of Medicine, Biology and Environment Computational identification of medically-relevant, personal genetic variation from the largest volumes of human genome sequences. 1540 3080
ib54 Barry Pogson College of Medicine, Biology and Environment A computational approach to enable precision control of drought resilience 1100 2200
kl43 Joe Hope Faculty of Science Deep Quantum: an exploration of many-body quantum mechanics at the lower limits of temperature and energy 700 1400
p12 Christian Wolf College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences SkyMapper and the Southern Sky Survey 660 1320
xz2 Colin Jackson College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Computational Structural Biology and Protein Engineering 550 1100
em78 (12730) Hrvoje Tkalcic College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Studying the Earth’s interior using global correlation wavefield 440 880
p08 Robert Stranger College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Computational studies of the Mn/Ca cluster in Photosystem II and its relevance to bio-mimetic Hydrogen generation catalysts 440 880
kn3 Marcus Doherty College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences First principles innovation of solid-state quantum technologies 440 880
xa1 John Pye College of Engineering and Computer Science Modelling of high-temperature concentrating solar thermal energy systems 360 720
ik06 (12727) Wen Jiayu College of Medicine, Biology and Environment Single-cell RNA-seq for discovering cell-type-specific gene expression patterns and gene regulatory landscape 330 660
ck06 (12732) Yun Liu College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Materials Design for Hydrogen Storage 330 660
ix81 (12735) Naomi McClure-Griffiths College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Simulating the Build-up of Magnetic Fields in High Velocity Clouds 330 660
y08 Matthew Hole College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Computational Applications in Equilibrium and Instabilities of Advanced Plasma Confinement Geometries 330 660
ac76 (12573) Albert Van Dijk College of Medicine, Biology and Environment National biodiversity trends and accounts 330 660
eo34 (12711) Mark Humphrey College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences DFT and TD-DFT Studies of Organometallic Systems 330 660
xm00 Tom Gedeon College of Engineering and Computer Science Deep learning from psychophysiological data 330 660
pq84 (12704) Matthew Field College of Medicine, Biology and Environment Developing Bioinformatics Capability to Diagnose Infectious Diseases using Clinical Metagenomics 250 500
ot77 Qing-Hua Qin College of Engineering and Computer Science Topology Optimisation of Mechanical Metamaterials and Multifunctional Materials 220 440
xc8 Brendan McKay College of Engineering and Computer Science Extremal graph theory and Ramsey theory 220 440
p05 Thomas Welberry College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Computation of X-Ray Diffraction Patterns for 3D Model Systems 220 440
vk39 (12611) Vigleik Angeltveit College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Ramsey number upper bounds 220 440
zm61 (12225) Philip Taylor College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences The COCKATOO Simulations 200 400
q80 Cedric Simenel College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Microscopic and Macroscopic Studies for Nuclear Reactions 200 400
v89 Lexing Xie College of Engineering and Computer Science Promoting Fairness in Online Attention 200 400
ya21 Vanessa Robins College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Persistent homology analysis of structural phase transitions 200 400
y48 Chennupati Jagadish College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Nanostructured optoelectronic devices: new materials and applications 154 308
mg82 (12734) Bin Lu College of Engineering and Computer Science The role of solar photovoltaics in a 100% renewable energy future 110 220
pi66 Josh Milthorpe College of Engineering and Computer Science Chapel on accelerators 110 220
lf10 Rippei Hayashi College of Medicine, Biology and Environment deciphering splicing code during development 110 220
tq90 (12690) Md Zakir Hossain College of Engineering and Computer Science Deep learning for facial expression and/or emotion recognition 110 220
TOTAL 138424 276848