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Career opportunities

• QCIF is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead a collaborative effort in establishing large scale storage and compute facilities for Australian researchers. The successful applicant will be a key contributor to Australia’s largest research computing infrastructure commissioning exercises. Applications close Fri 18 May 2012
  
  
• QCIF is seeking a Senior Developer. This position focuses on the enhancement of the ReDBox system and supporting installations at a number of academic institutions.

  Applications close Fri 18 May 2012

 Launch imminent: Queensland Early Research Node

QERN is a 400TB/300 CPU core system being built by QCIF to prototype two key federal government initiatives, NeCTAR and ReDS (RDSI). NeCTAR provides servers to researchers; RDSI provides researchers with data storage and management mechanisms. QERN is being built by QCIF to enable the Queensland research community and QCIF member universities to gain experience in using and managing Research Cloud services (NeCTAR), and RDSI services, before the official release of these services. 

The key deliverables from this project are to;

• Train QCloud Team for running the infrastructure required for the research cloud
• Establish an RDSI-like and NeCTAR-like Cloud for early adopters to explore
• Help Queensland researchers migrate to cloud environments

The service is expected to be available to early adopters by the end of May 2012.
If you are a Queensland researcher interested in getting your project on QERN, please contact Graham Chen.

• Get more information about NeCTAR
• Get more information about RDSI

 2012 Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology

QCIF is a proud sponsor of the Winter School, to be held at UQ from 6-12 July.

The series of winter schools is designed to introduce mathematical and computational biology and bioinformatics to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers and others working in the fields of mathematics, statistics, computer science, information technology, complex systems analysis, and biological, chemical and medical sciences and engineering. Go to School website

The Winter School is structured to present one important topic (Topics) each day. Each day will consist of a mixture of extended lectures, software demos, and interactive discussions. Our lecturers, many of whom are leading national and international authorities, have been selected for their ability to make their topic accessible to and exciting for a non-specialist audience. Presentations each day will range from introductory to advanced, and will focus on both mathematical and biological issues.

UQ New Staff Expo

Our UQ eResearch Analyst, Justin Clark, explains the benefits of QCIF's Data Services to a new UQ researcher.

The February UQ New Staff Expo provides information to new staff and researchers about University services and facilities. With over 600 new staff and more than 20 services stalls in the bright and airy UQ Centre, the event was a great information sharing opportunity for all involved.

The next UQ New Staff Expo will be held in July. QCIF will be there, so come down and say hello!