RCC staff and a close collaborator have had papers accepted for October conferences eResearch Australasia 2017 in Brisbane and eScience in Auckland, New Zealand.
RCC collaborator Jake Carroll, the Queensland Brain Institute’s Senior Information Technology Manager (Research), will present his paper titled ‘Don’t Forget the Workflows — the Drivers of the Compute and Storage Infrastructure’ at eResearch Australasia on Wednesday, 18 October, 2pm–2:20pm. He will discuss QBI’s and RCC’s efforts in the development and eventual use of a data locality, caching and workflow-aware storage infrastructure engine, known as MeDiCI (Metropolitan Data-Intensive Caching Infrastructure). He will also illustrate a real-life example of how MeDiCI is being used to deliver a multi-site, multi-supercomputing, multi-data locality-aware scientific outcome.
Immediately following Jake’s talk, RCC Systems Administrator Michael Mallon will discuss MeDiCI further in his presentation titled ‘MeDiCI can do that!’, based on a paper co-written by himself, Jake, and RCC Director Prof. David Abramson. Michael will describe the innovations behind MeDiCI, particularly how RCC was able to avoid the silos of storage issue when providing access to data in MeDiCI.
Also at eResearch Australasia, RCC/QCIF Program Manager for NCRIS-funded Health and Life Sciences Projects Dr Jeff Christiansen will present a multi-authored paper on the omics.data.edu.au portal on Thursday, 19 October, 2pm–2:20pm. The RDS-funded portal is a national first: a cloud-based system for both integrated biological data management and associated informatics analysis for four broad “-omics” data types (DNA, RNA, proteins and metabolites), which enables the sharing of data and collaborative analysis amongst members of a research consortium.
As Chair of eResearch Australasia 2017, RCC Director Prof. David Abramson will give the conference’s opening and closing addresses.
The conference is being held on 18–20 October at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. Early-bird registration closes Friday, 15 September.
eResearch Australasia 2017 will offer delegates the opportunity to engage, connect, and share their ideas and exemplars concerning new information-centric research capabilities, and how information and communication technologies help researchers to collaborate, collect, manage, share, process, analyse, store, find, understand and re-use information.
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) eScience conference in Auckland follows eResearch Australasia on 24–27 October. Five RCC staff have worked on two papers accepted for the international conference.
Prof. David Abramson, Dr Chao Jin, Michael Mallon and RCC collaborator Jake Carroll have had their paper about MeDiCI accepted for eScience. The paper describes the MeDiCI architecture and implementation and presents a number of performance metrics.
RCC’s Dr Hoang Nguyen and Dr Minh Dinh’s co-authored paper about a computational pipeline that performs a IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) risk assessment of the Meso-American reef ecosystem was also accepted for eScience. The paper is the result of a collaboration between Hoang, Minh and Dr Lucie Bland of Deakin University. The paper explored different ways to parallelise the computational model called CORSET (Coral Reef Scenario Evaluation Tool), which is heavily used in the IUCN risk assessment. All the runs were performed on RCC’s Tinaroo HPC cluster.
RCC Director Prof. Abramson is on eScience’s international steering committee.
The objective of the eScience conference is to promote and encourage all aspects of eScience and its associated technologies, applications, and tools.
