The development of new tools under the banners of eResearch, the Grid and advanced visualisation are changing the way science and engineering will be carried out now and into the future. In Australia, the roll out of the APAC grid and the development of advanced visualisation facilities will significantly add to this phenomenon. The motivation behind this proposal is to create educational resource materials to inform research and other students about those new technologies that are driving science and engineering and to create specific case studies in areas such as advanced visualisation. It is expected that the outcomes from this project could be used by universities to introduce a range of students, including higher degree research students, to the available APAC grid technologies, HPC systems, commonly used problem solving environments such as Matlab and data visualisation/data mining applications. The project will develop a core set of materials that would be of benefit to most researchers in science and engineering. It will also develop, examine and evaluate other areas that have specific discipline appeal (e.g. portals for specific research groups, such as GeoDise for engineering). It is envisaged that the materials could be used to deliver an embedded postgraduate subject, a stand-alone course or awareness courses on a range of topics.
The materials will cover:
- advanced visualisation
- HPC, PSEs (problem solving environments)
- grid technologies (eg Access Grid)
- interactive environments (eg immersive visualisation environments)
For progress reports on this program, please go to the following links: