NCI

Get an account on the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)

QCIF holds a share of the NCI facility. This entitles QCIF members to access time on the Raijin supercomputer at the NCI and use about 3.4 million service units annually (SU, a service unit, is approximately one CPU hour). Queensland researchers can use Raijin at NCI either by applying directly to NCI for an allocation of time under the NCMAS scheme (a merit allocation scheme) or by applying for an allocation from QCIF’s partner share.

Please apply for QCIF's share via the application form on the QRIScloud portal. (Please note: if you are a first-time user of the portal, you will be asked to create an account before you can create the request).

Events

International Digital Curation Conference

4–7 February 2019, Melbourne

Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology 2019

1–5 July 2019, UQ St Lucia

Tech Talk back in 2019

1 February 2019, nationwide

Brisbane Microscope Facility Forum

Monthly, UQ St Lucia

News

Euramoo is being re-built as the Awoonga HPC cluster

QCIF and UQ’s Research Computing Centre are re-building Euramoo as a new high performance compute cluster called Awoonga.

Highlights from Research Bazaar Brisbane 2017

Brisbane’s Research Bazaar at UQ attracted more than 300 participants across its three days from 7–9 February.

QFAB celebrates its 10th anniversary

QFAB is celebrating its 10th birthday and a decade of providing leading bioinformatics services to life science and health researchers.

Health Hack winners create Australia’s first data set for recognising Auslan

The team behind a platform for translating Australian sign language (Auslan) over video conferencing systems won first prize at this year’s QCIF-sponsored Brisbane Health Hack.

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?