Services

QCIF offers a range of eResearch services to help researchers tackle real-world challenges

Video Collaboration

EVO is a free, fully supported desktop video collaboration tool. Set up an account easily, share files and text and face-to-face communication in real time.

>Launch EVO >Read more on EVO
AccessGrid is a room based group-to-group video collaboration tool. Access Grid video conference rooms are located at most Australian universities and are free for research use. Read more

Data Services

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

>Read more about our Data Services

Compute Cloud

Access a range of HPC cluster systems across Australia and New Zealand

>Get Started >Read more about the Compute Cloud

High Performance Computing

QCIF operates high performance computers across the major Queensland universities available to researchers upon obtaining an account.

>Get an account on Barrine, the UQ facility >More on HPC, and other facilities in Qld

News

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
Read more or see press release

The HPC Hat Trick:

Number Crunching, Data Crunching and Energy Efficiency.

Get eResearch Australasia 2011 conference presentations

Presentations now available as pdf documents.
Read more

Events & Media

EDUCAUSE 2012

6-9 November, 2012, Denver, Colorado or Online

MS 2012

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

Project case studies

Download pdf versions of some of our highlighted projects

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.