News

Welcoming your feedback: QCIF’s customer survey 2017

QCIF recently launched its 2017 customer survey, providing users with the opportunity to give feedback.

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The feedback will help improve existing services and to inform the introduction of new services to meet researcher, research community, and member needs.

This year’s survey has been sent to more than 1,400 users of QCIF’s services — doubling the outreach of last year’s survey.

This is the third annual survey that QCIF has run. The comments have been invaluable with many suggestions that have driven service improvements. During previous surveys users mentioned some services needed simplification, others needed additional features and QRIScloud needed new services. In response, QCIF has developed and deployed such tools as Nextcloud, Mediaflux, and Aspera, and a range of applications within Murano.

We look forward to receiving your feedback from this year's survey and further improving our services and service quality as a result.

If you did not receive the survey but wish to participate, please contact Stephen Bird, QCIF Service Delivery Manager: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Events

eResearch Australasia 2017

16–20 October 2017, Brisbane

JCU to host two workshops on HPC, Python, Unix and Git

26–27 September 2017 and 9 October 2017, Townsville

USQ's Software Carpentry with R workshop

25 September 2017, Toowoomba

QFAB workshops on Galaxy, Python, R and surveys

July–September 2017, Brisbane

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Brisbane HealthHack 2016, event report

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QCIF Projects

Live traffic congestion mapping

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

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.

Adapting to climate change: Terra Nova

There's an important distinction between climate change and climate change adaptation. Research into climate change looks at questions of how the climate is changing and how this change will affect the environment. Climate change adaptation looks at how we can respond to these changes – how we can reduce the impacts of stresses on human and natural systems including our cities and regions, our agriculture and aquaculture, and the biodiversity of our environment, and how we can harness any beneficial opportunities. In other words, what should we do to prepare and adapt?