Sustaining and strengthening merit-based access to National Computational Infrastructure

该项目使澳大利亚研究人员能够开放、择优地访问国家计算基础设施（NCI）的高性能计算设施。NCI为大学、科学机构和工业界的研究人员提供世界一流的综合高性能计算/数据服务，使每个科学技术领域的高影响力研究成为可能。核心资本基础设施通过NCRIS计划提供支持，管理组织和合作伙伴组织为运营成本提供资金。该项目为不在合作伙伴组织工作的澳大利亚研究人员提供了NCI设施30%的工作时间。其好处包括确保所有研究人员都能根据自身能力使用这个国家设施，加速能源、卫生和信息技术部门新材料的设计，了解我们的海洋和大气如何驱动影响农业生产的气候变化和极端天气，以及开发对抗多药耐药感染的新疗法。

This project enables Australian Researchers open, merit based access to the National Computational Infrastructure’s (NCI) high-performance computing facility. The NCI provides researchers in universities, science agencies and industry with world-class, integrated high-performance computing/data services that enable high-impact research in every field of science and technology. The core capital infrastructure is supported through the NCRIS program, and the Administering Organisation and the Partner Organisations fund the operational costs. This project provides 30 per cent of the operational time of the NCI facility to Australian researchers who are not based at a Partner organisation. Benefits include ensuring merit based access to this national facility for all researchers, the acceleration in the design of new materials for the energy, health, and IT sectors, understanding how our oceans and atmosphere drive climate variability and extremes that impacts agricultural production, and the development of novel therapeutics for fighting multidrug-resistant infections.