Schemes

Researchers at The University of Sydney who held competitive grant funding active on 30 June 2024 are eligible to apply for fully subsidised research support and computing from the Sydney Informatics Hub (SIH) in 2026. Up to an estimated value of $50,000 per researcher throughout 2026 is on offer, which could be a combination of:

• A month’s H200 GPU time (720hrs) on the new Sydney GPU cluster

• Top-up compute allocation - a bonus MSU on the national supercomputer NCI Gadi on top of your regular Sydney Scheme allocation, or equivalent allocation on Pawsey Setonix.

• Up to 9 project weeks of expert SIH staff research support in any of our areas of expertise:

• AI & machine learning

• Data science 

• Bioinformatics 

• Statistics 

• Associated software development

• Natural language processing

• Text analytics

• Geospatial analysis

• Image processing

• Modelling & simulation

• High performance computing

• Parallelising & scaling up algorithms 

Half of the available funding will go towards researchers who held an NHMRC research grant active on active 30 June 2024, and the other half can go towards any researchers who held competitive research funding on the same date. Read more and apply under “USyd and NHMRC Equipment Grants” on the intranet here.

Apply here - Applications are now open and close Friday 6th February 2026 5pm. Outcomes will be announced mid-March 2026.

- NCI-Sydney Scheme: Free and open.

- NCMAS (Pawsey and NCI): Annually

- Ronin Cloud: Rolling trials and paid contribution

- For access options to commercial cloud (AWS, Azure) or National facilities (NCI, Pawsey) under Sydney Research Cloud or for any other systems contact us at: sih.info@sydney.edu.au

Sydney Informatics Hub Project Scheme

The Sydney Informatics Hub (SIH) Project Scheme is currently closed for applications but keep an eye out for our next call for applications. If you’d like to be notified when we next open applications, contact us at sih.info@sydney.edu.au. 

The Sydney Research Infrastructure Access Grants (formerly 'Core Research Facilities User Access Scheme') support access to Core Research Facilities and Research Service Units by researchers whose opportunities may otherwise be limited.

Access Grants can be used to enable work with other facilities, but do not apply to Sydney Informatics Hub.