RCC Director Prof. David Abramson presented at two national technology conferences in July 2017 — NextGen Government 2017 and Australian CIO Summit 2017.
On Thursday, 20 July, he gave a talk in Sydney at NextGen Government 2017, a public sector conference examining the processes and technologies that underpin a digital government.
Prof Abramson discussed RCC's work building digital infrastructure for data-intensive science projects. His talk was listed under the conference heading "Overcoming Procurement Challenges When Moving to Digital."
On Friday, 21 July, he gave a similar talk, titled "Taming the Data Tsunami", as the closing keynote address at the Australian CIO [Chief Information Officer] Summit 2017 on the Gold Coast.
He discussed building a strategy to provide superior compute infrastructure for data-intensive operations. Specifically, he spoke about the supercomputer FlashLite he helped design for data-intensive research, and about UQ's new data storage fabric, MeDiCI.
In his presentation abstract, Prof Abramson wrote: "The promise of data analytics is huge, but the practical side of providing adequate frameworks to realise that promise is still a challenge to be mastered by most organisations."
In his talk, he demonstrated how RCC had successfully and cost-effectively leveraged off-the-shelf technologies by hardware partners, such as DDN, IBM and SGI as well as open source software.
