CeBIT 2012

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CeBIT 2012

22-24 May 2012, Sydney

Event overview

If business is a game then it’s the toughest of all to win. The players, rules and goalposts are constantly changing. The cloud, mobile apps, eCommerce – if you stop moving you get left far behind. But get it right and your business can clean up.

At CeBIT 2012 you’ll learn how to play the game by its new rules, and how to win safely, securely and within your budget. You’ll hear from global and local thought-leaders, policy-makers and business-influencers. Plus, you can meet suppliers who can give you practical answers you can implement right now. CeBIT Australia provides a unique combination of three elements

Australia’s largest ICT Business Event – Over 600 exhibitors and 30,000 business visitors
CeBIT Global Conferences – A comprehensive program delivered by over 100 global thought leaders
Networking – CeBIT attracts and connects national and international leaders from industry and government

For more info visit the conference website

News

Budget 2012:

IT money, but no vision.
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Meet the Exascale Apps

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

Will we reach zettaflops?

Thomas Sterling, Professor of Informatics & Computing at Indiana University, doesn't think so.
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Up and running: Australian first

For the first time, an Australian national research cloud is here.
Read more or enter cloud

NeCTAR announcement

QCIF to share in $23 million

Events & Media

QUESTnet 2012

10-13 July, 2012, Cairns, Australia

MS 2012

The 23rd IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation. 3-5 July, 2012, Banff, Canada

QCIF seeks Senior Developer

QCIF is seeking an experienced Senior Developer. Applications close Fri 18 May 2012

QCIF Projects

Live traffic congestion mapping

Providing travellers with real-time information on traffic conditions and congestion in the South East Queensland area.

ReDBox 1.1

ReDBox, originally built by USQ with an ANDS grant, is being extended into version 1.1 by CQUniversity (CQU) and QCIF with further ANDs funding. The ReDBox and Mint platforms help the research community describe and share metadata about research data holdings.

Visualisation of methane gas on Little Nerang Dam

The interactive 3D visualisation shows how the greenhouse gas is generated in the dam's sedement zone. It allows non-technical stakeholders to make better informed decisions about methane management.

Improving the Automated force field Topology Builder (ATB) and repository

Helping the UQ Molecular Dynamics group to improve the capacity of their software to handle at least 100 molecules at a time, up from 20, QCIF has enabled the group to continue its disease research at the cutting edge.

Tropical Data Hub

The Tropical Data Hub (TDH) is a JCU developed centralised data store making it easier for researchers to manage data related to the tropics. An open portal, it facilitates a multi-disciplinary approach to issues around climate change and conservation.