Three RCC staff took the opportunity to attend Australia’s first Supercomputing Asia conference last month.
RCC Director Jake Carroll, Senior Systems Administrator Ashley Wright and Systems Administrator Michael Mallon travelled to Sydney for Supercomputing Asia 2024 (SCA24), the first time the conference has been held outside of Singapore.
The event was held at Sydney’s International Convention Centre across 19–22 February.
Michael and Jake both spoke at the conference, with Jake speaking at IBM’s Storage Scale User Group meeting pre-conference and at the S3 object workflows birds of a feather session within the main conference program.
Also, as part of the main program, Michael spoke alongside IBM’s Madhu Punjabi on next--generation global data fabrics and how carefully considered container infrastructure can assist and enhance scientific research.
Jake, Michael, and Ashley also spent time at the conference meeting with UQ RCC industry technology partners to discuss roadmaps for the year ahead, next-generation technologies and global industry trends.
Jake said SCA24 was well attended by the local HPC community. “It was an opportunity to reconnect with our peers locally around the Asia-Pacific region, but also to catch up with colleagues from as far away as Europe and the United States,” said Jake.
Former RCC Director Professor David Abramson was also at SCA24.
Read our article, published last November, about the Supercomputing Asia conference being held in Australia for the first time.
RCC staff attend AeRO Forum 2024
The Australian eResearch Organisation (AeRO) ran its first forum for the year alongside the Supercomputing Asia Conference 2024.
Former RCC Director Professor David Abramson ran the forum in his new capacity as President of AeRO.
The forum focused on the model that David and colleagues have been developing over the course of last year for a Research Data Reference Architecture for the eResearch sector.
More than 70 representatives from eResearch organisations, software and infrastructure providers and vendors attended the interactive event.
The forum was designed to road test the recently proposed Research Data Reference Architecture model by workshopping individual features, providing real-world context, as well as identifying implementation challenges from different perspectives.
A number of additional reference criteria were suggested, which will be considered for implementation in the next iteration of the model.
RCC Director Jake Carroll, who attended the forum, said: “It was well attended, highly engaging and left the attendees wanting a follow up to discuss next steps and how we collectively progress the discussion.”
Read more about Australia’s first Research Data Reference Architecture (RDRA) working group, and read more about last month’s AeRO Forum.
RCC Director Jake Carroll presenting at Supercomputing Asia 2024. (Image: Prof. David Abramson, UQ).
