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.

The NCMAS round for 2016 is open for applications now.

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

eResearch Australasia 2017

16–20 October 2017, Brisbane

QFAB workshops on Galaxy, Python, R and surveys

July–September 2017, Brisbane

EMBL-ABR Roadshow with Monica Munoz-Torres

3–4 July 2017, Townsville & 11–13 July 2017, Brisbane

Data to Drive Innovation and Advance Business

16 June 2017, Brisbane

News

New QRIScompute service supporting research community portals

QRIScloud has a new compute service designed to host research portals that support communities of researchers and research groups by giving their members access to a portfolio of data collections and computational tools.

Faster, wider access to the 1000 Genomes Mirror

As part of a program to make large reference data sets more widely available, QCIF recently exposed the complete 1000 Genomes data set to the Euramoo and FlashLite compute clusters.

150 GB of storage available to users of QRIScloud’s Nextcloud service

QRIScloud has made 150 GB of data storage available to each user of its Nextcloud service.

Pre-packaged applications on the Nectar Research Cloud

Nectar recently announced its Application Catalogue, releasing a number of new applications to all Research Cloud users through the Nectar dashboard.

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?