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Policies

Conference attendance policy

QCIF recognises that conferences are an important part of the academic, community engagement and commercial activities of its member Universities. Participation in conferences provides significant benefits for QCIF and its member employees through the sharing of knowledge and resultant enhancement of the image of QCIF and its members.

The purpose of this policy is to outline in general terms the policy for funding or part funding for persons wishing to attend conferences.

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QCIF National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) Share Allocation Policy

QCIF has invested in a partner share at the National Computation Infrastructure (NCI). This entitles QCIF members to access the NCI National Facility (NCI NF) and use about 3.4 million service units annually (SU, a service unit, is approximately one CPU hour).

Queensland researchers can use the NCI NF either by applying directly to NCI for a MAS (merit allocation scheme) allocation of time on the HPC facility or by applying for an allocation from QCIF’s partner share.

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SeeVogh

SeeVogh is the next generation in video collaboration software produced by EVOGH, the makers of EVO. SeeVogh is a cloud-based, high-definition, multi-point, video collaboration solution. SeeVogh permits users to connect in a dynamic display of multiple video images, multiple simultaneously shared desktops with public and private text chat.

QCIF will provide SeeVogh as a trial free service from 1st of September 2012 to 30th June 2013.  With Commonwealth funding no longer being provided, QCIF is providing a pathway that will allow users to continue to benefit from video-collaboration.  The EVO service will be discontinued from 1st November and we recommend that existing users transition to SeeVogh before this date.

Regular users of this service will be encouraged to obtain their own license, as this trail service will discontinue from July 2013.  SeeVogh has many licenses modelling, allowing users to the install the SeeVogh software on their own infrastructure, using cloud infrastructure or using their "prepaid service".  The costs associated with this is generally a fraction of the costs compared to other mainstream Video Conferencing/Collaboration services.  SeeVogh has been adopted by Internet2 in the United States and is becoming a mainstream service for the research sector.

SeeVogh benefits include:

  • High-definition video provides high-quality visual information meetings that can be created by anyone with a SeeVogh account. Information on how to obtain an account can be found below (see Accounts Section);
  • Only the person creating a meeting requires an account. Meeting invitees are not required to login in or to authenticate. This works wells with communicating with international colleagues or industry partners;
  • Meetings may be password-protected for security purposes;
  • Desktop Streaming allows sharing of presentations, documents, web pages and computer program displays;
  • Provides the ability to connect to H.323/SIP devices. The moderator of the meeting can dial a H.323/SIP device. Additionally, currently in beta, SeeVogh allows H.323/SIP devices to dial directly into a meeting;
  • Text chat for instant group messaging, or individual messaging;
  • Easy installation and auto-updating for new releases;
  • Available for Android;
  • Available for iPad (3rd generation and higher) and iPhone (iPhone 4 and higher).
  • Access Grid and Phone bridging.

Features coming soon:

  • Multiple Camera Support

QCIF has licensed SeeVogh and has made it available for free for download and use by the Australian research and academic community.

Get an account

If you require a SeeVogh account (you need an account in order to create a meeting) please contact the QCIF SeeVogh administrators at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .  Please provide your reason for requiring a SeeVogh and account, and some info on how it will relate to the Australian Research and Academic community.

Getting Started

The following Links provide information on getting started.

Creating a Meeting

Registered users will log into the SeeVogh website. Once Authenticated, simply select the "My SeeVogh" menu option and select "Create a Meeting".

It is suggested that first-time users watch the two-minute video on how to create a meeting.

Meeting Quality notes:

  • Generally - selecting quality "high" will provide the best experience for general SeeVogh meetings.
  • Selecting the quality "720p" or "1080p" will requires significant computer system capabilities to process this level of video quality. This is not recommends for users who will be connecting using an older computer system, or connecting from a limited network capability.
  • When creating a meeting, ensure to select more time and participates than required. SeeVogh currently doesn't allow you to extend or add extra participants.

Testing SeeVogh

If you would like to Test SeeVogh without having to create a meeting, you can join the QCIF SeeVogh Test Room.  Please be aware that you do not require a SeeVogh account use this Test Room.  This facility has been made available to allow users to test SeeVogh, thus ensuring everything is working as expected. Currently this "Test Room" has no participants, but we are developing a system to ensure some recorded videos are looped to provide an even greater testing facility.

QERN

QERN (the QCIF Early Research Node) 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. 

Key project deliverables;

  • 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.

  • More information about NeCTAR
  • More information about RDSI

 

Members

Established in 2000, the QCIF membership currently comprises six of the Queensland public universities as full members, and one as associate member:

the-university-of-queensland-australia     The University of Queensland

queensland-university-of-technology      The Queensland University of Technology

griffith-university        Griffith University

james-cook-university-australia          James Cook University

cq-university-thumb                Central Queensland University

university-of-southern-queensland       The University of Southern Queensland

thumb-university-of-the-sunshine-coast-queensland-australia            Associate member: The University of the Sunshine Coast

 

The QCIF Board of Directors is made up of representatives from the six founding member universities, an independent Director, and an independent Chair.

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