INCITE award provides access to one of the world's fastest supercomputers

A research group led by MEI’s Power Generation and Transport Program Leader Professor Richard Sandberg has recently won the INCITE award, providing the team with 570,000 node hours on the Summit supercomputer. The node hours will be used to simulate the flow in jet engines, for a collaborative research project with General Electric Aviation.

Photo by U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is a highly competitive scheme by the Department of Energy in the USA. The program promotes transformational advances in science and technology through large allocations of time on state-of-the-art supercomputers.

The 570,000 node hours awarded to Professor Sandberg’s team corresponds to an equivalent of approximately 410 million core hours on Australian systems. To put this into context, this is on par with what the Australian national computational merit allocation scheme for 2022 will award to all of Australia’s research computing, across all research domains (550 million when not including Setonix Phase 2). With $0.04/core hour, this is equivalent to a multi-million research award. This is the third consecutive year that the University of Melbourne has been successful in securing this award.