ARCS eResearch Collaborative Services provides a host of data services that enable researchers to focus their attention on gathering new information while ensuring that existing data is readily available. Store large volumes of data for more collaboration. Quickly transfer data for faster analysis and results. Share material for convenience and control. All without requiring extensive technical expertise.
Regardless of discipline, researchers are faced with ever-growing volumes of data. To stay on top of everything, they often require more IT knowledge and technical capabilities than they possess. As a result, researchers either are not able to access and process all data relevant to their projects – or they spend more effort managing their IT systems than they do on research. ARCS offers Internet-based services designed to help researchers conveniently and efficiently control their data.
With ever increasing volumes of research information, effective data collaboration becomes increasingly difficult. Dealing with maintaining, accessing and distributing data is a significant challenge. ARCS’ data services provide researchers with the tools, services and expertise necessary to address the fundamental requirements surrounding data storage, sharing and transport.
ARCS Data Fabric – Australia's national system for storing research data
ARCS Database Service – Provides database hosting for collaborative research efforts
ARCS Data Transfer Service – Custom-tailored solutions for transferring research data
IT money, but no vision.
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In what will be a three-decade span between gigascale and exascale computing, HPC capability will have increased by a factor of one billion, but the apps that are projected to use this enormous increase in capability look pretty much like the gigascale ones. Read more
Thomas Sterling, Professor of Informatics & Computing at Indiana University, doesn't think so.
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For the first time, an Australian national research cloud is here.
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QCIF to share in $23 million
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