MS 2012

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MS 2012

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

Event overview

The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) is a non-profit organization devoted to promoting economic and cultural advancement. Established in 1977, IASTED organizes multidisciplinary conferences for academics and professionals, mainly in the fields of engineering, science, and education. IASTED holds conferences and courses in both industrialized and developing nations.

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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.
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NeCTAR announcement

QCIF to share in $23 million

Events & Media

Project case studies

Download pdf versions of some of our highlighted projects

CeBIT 2012

22-24 May 2012, Sydney

ISC'12 - The HPC Event

17-21 June 2012, Hamburg, Germany

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.