With the help of QCIF and other eResearch providers, a team of women chemistry researchers at The University of Queensland were able to harness local and national high-performance computers to complete their project. The results of their work was published in the “Women in Computational Chemistry” special issue of an international chemistry journal.
Through QCIF, a Griffith University renewable energy researcher has taken his work to the next level with all-important access to national high-performance computers. Before contacting QCIF, Dr Yun Wang was facing the very real possibility of having to stop computational research due to a lack of HPC resources.
University of Southern Queensland PhD student Bonnie Green is looking at piano teaching practices and how they have either promoted or denied the creativity of those who go on to become piano teachers. She is using QRIScloud for data and document storage and is thankful to have a free, secure system.
CQUniversity-developed FruitMaps is a data tool that takes real-time data from multiple sources and displays them visually to provide a simple, free, online decision support tool adapted for use by farmers to assess fruit maturity and assist harvesting planning. The data collections that underpin the tool are stored on QRIScloud, QCIF’s cloud computing service.
University of Southern Queensland researchers are using drones to map farms to help form a more targeted, lower-cost and environmentally-friendly approach to eliminating weeds. Large volumes of aerial imagery and drone data being collected by the USQ team during the project’s current trial period are stored and managed on QCIF’s QRIScloud.
CQUniversity-developed DataMuster is a groundbreaking animal monitoring Web application that combines livestock management hardware with cutting-edge software so beef producers have a precise understanding of animal performance. QRIScloud provides the server to run the app and hosts the data.
Australia’s Threatened Species Index project is developing a tool to allow holistic reporting on the broad status of Australia’s biodiversity, as is routinely done for the economy. The project team is using QRIScloud to run the thousands of combinations of indices, and for data storage.
QCIF offers a number of services for researchers from our member universities who need to gain access to world-class HPC resources. These include training courses, face-to-face support, and a “grant” program to fund early-career researchers to get a track record in the use of national HPC facilities.
In a bid to reduce time and financial constraints, the University of Queensland’s Microbial Genomics Lab is increasingly using free cloud computing resources, such as QCIF’s, for a range of ARC and NHMRC-funded projects that use genomics to investigate multi-drug resistant superbugs.
Vegmachine is a free, fast online tool providing Australians with detailed ground cover analysis to help with grazing and land management decisions. QRIScloud provides storage for the satellite data powering Vegmachine. Australia’s Joint Remote Sensing Research Program (JRSRP) is the team behind Vegmachine.