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Supercomputing 2012 Conference: a student perspective

Early in November QCIF was proud to offer PHD student, Chaminda Prasad Karunasena Helambage, a competative travel scholarship to attend the SC2012 conference in Salt Lake City, USA. This annual event is widely considered to be the world's premier supercomputing, attracting scholars and industry experts from across the globe to meet and share cutting-edge findings and trends in the field. Read more about Chaminda's SC2012 experience

Couldn't make it to eResearch Australasia 2012?

QCIF was a proud sponsor of the eResearch Australasia 2012 conference. Watch a selection of presentation recordings here

New NeCTAR Research Cloud nodes announced

NeCTAR is partnering with Australian institutions and research organisations to build a National Research Cloud to empower researchers with new self-service abilities to publish research data, share knowledge and rapidly deploy and access software applications without the burden of operating their own computer servers. The University of Melbourne built the first node of the research cloud, operational now.

The Queensland NeCTAR Research Cloud Node (NeCTAR project funding $2 million; co-investment $1.5 million) will be operated by QCIF, and will build on current cloud applications for genomics, ecology and characterisation research communities, as well as support NeCTAR Virtual Laboratories and Research Tools in other areas.

First partners announced for research 'big data' project

A $50 million Federal Government project that aims to transform the storage of research data has revealed the location of its first five nodes — in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide and Hobart.

The University of Queensland (UQ) is leading the program on behalf of the Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIISRTE).

Dr Nick Tate, RDSI Project Director who is based at UQ, said each of the five nodes would receive funding under the Research Data Storage Infrastructure scheme. He announced that:

• Intersect will establish a primary node in Sydney
• Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) will establish a primary node in Brisbane
• Australian National University will establish a primary node in Canberra
• eResearch SA (eRSA) will establish a primary node in Adelaide 
• The University of Tasmania will establish an additional node in Hobart