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eResearch@Melbourne Prof. Richard O. Sinnott Dr Steven Manos Dirk van der Knijff Bernard Meade Natalie Gilka Overview ITS Research Services The ITS Research Services unit supports the ICT requirements of researchers across the University that are beyond what can be provided at faculty level. It provides a range of physical resources (including computing, data and visualisation services) and advice, training and eResearch consultation. Current examples include: • The availability of a large-scale central research data storage facility (currently 400TB in capacity with expansion planned) • Three full-time expert staff members available to support researchers in the areas of research computing, high-performance computing, visualisation and collaboration tools including an OptIPortal • Establishment of research computing training programmes, including the delivery of a Matlab scientific computing and visualisation course in early 2011. Prof. Richard O. Sinnott (Director, eResearch) has been involved in numerous major e-Science initiatives in the UK and internationally. He was Director of the National e-Science Centre (NeSC) at the University of Glasgow, Deputy Director of the Bioinformatics Research Centre in Glasgow and been investigator on an extensive portfolio of eResearch projects across the e-Space. He joined the Melbourne eResearch Group in July 2010 and is responsible for shaping University-wide eResearch efforts . Dr Steven Manos (ITS Manager Research Services) Natalie Gilka: My role is to facilitate the use of High-Performance Computing (HPC) by the University’s scientific community. This covers issues of providing a networking platform for researchers who are involved in HPC as well as assessing the way HPC is used at the university, and investigating possible means of improvement. One of the most important aspects here is my interacting directly with the community of researchers - since my own research background lies in theoretical chemistry and mathematics, I have considerable common ground with scientists at the University of Melbourne. Dirk van der Knijff : Bernard Meade: Anthony Stell: has worked on a portfolio of The University of Melbourne continues to strengthen its eResearch capability through the maturation of a number of significant undertakings and collaborations across its research portfolio. The current scale of eResearch development at the University in 2010 is reflective of the increasingly critical role the field plays in delivering high impact research outcomes. In line with its position as top ranked in multiple national research indicators, the University of Melbourne is correspondingly building its position of leadership in eResearch through participation in high profile, high impact initiatives, largely funded from Government sources. This leadership enables the University to derive tactical and strategic advantage by leveraging these investments to build its own e-infrastructure for the long-term sustainability of research excellence. National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NeCTAR): www.nectar.org.au The University of Melbourne is lead agent on the $47m National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NeCTAR) project. The primary objectives of the NeCTAR project are to enhance research collaboration and research outcomes by providing Information and Communication Technology infrastructure that creates new information centric research capabilities; to significantly simplify the combining of instruments, data, computing, and analysis applications; and to enable the development of research workflows based on access to multiple resources. European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumours (ENSAT- CANCER): www.ensat.org This major 5-year EU funded project begins in 2011, and will develop an advanced, security-oriented eResearch platform for all aspects of research into adrenal cancer. The project comprises clinical data registries, biobanking capabilities and will support two major clinical trials (sponsored by drug companies) comprising 2500 patients in each from 15 clinical centres across Europe. This project will serve as a template for many of the collaborative requirements of clinical and biomedical researchers at Melbourne and the wider Parkville Precinct. Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN): www.aurin.unimelb.edu.au The University is lead agent for this $20M Super Science funded initiative, which will provide a targeted research infrastructure for built environment and urban researchers, designers and planners with infrastructure to facilitate access to a distributed network of aggregated datasets and information services. These datasets and services are essential to understanding patterns of urban development, and to form and model urban growth for a sustainable future. The data sets come from a rich source of providers including government organisations, commercial providers through to researchers themselves. Australian National Data Service (ANDS) projects (www.ands.org.au) The University has been awarded $1.25M to contribute to the Australian Research Data Commons as well as to develop various discipline-specific data capture projects. Projects soon to be underway at the University include: • Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre Bioinformatics Development Project • Longitudinal qualitative and quantitative survey data capture and reuse, Youth Resource Centre • Optimising Metadata Capture, Data Sharing Procedures and Long-term reuse of Video data in the Social Sciences • Human and mouse neuroimaging collections in the national data commons • Humanities and Social Science Data at the University of Melbourne • Capturing multimodal data to support research in cardiovascular and neurological medicine • Founders and Survivors Project University of Melbourne eResearch Activities Melbourne eResearch Group ( www.eresearch.unimelb.edu.au ) The Melbourne eResearch Group (MEG) exists to provide guidance and strategic advice on the development, support and delivery of eResearch platforms to the University’s research community, and to deliver eResearch platforms directly. The Group is seeking to grow a team of e-Enablers that can rapidly develop prototype research-oriented systems for the University research community, through to hardening and maintaining production-level research environments used in mission critical environments. The initial focus of the work is on the delivery of e-Security platforms to underpin data management, and collaborative services with potential applications across most research domains. The MEG and ITS Research Services are increasingly involved in delivering educational services either as stand alone initiatives or in conjunction with other eResearch centres or University departments. Contacts Professor Richard Sinnott [email protected] Dr Steven Manos [email protected] Melbourne eResearch Group Linkages The Melbourne eResearch Group collaborates with and leverages expertise from other University based groups such as: Digital Archiving and Preservation working group which is exploring the many challenges in supporting long term data management and digital data archiving; Victoria eResearch Strategic Initiative which provides advice and direct hands on collaborative support across a range of eResearch projects; eResearch Scholarship Centre which provides expertise in cultural informatics, archives, data preservation and sustainable information systems for research; Victoria Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) which provides a major high performance computing facility for the life sciences and is directly shaping many of the post- genomic life science efforts in Melbourne. Victoria Partnership for Advanced Computing which provides expertise, resources and collaboration on a range of eResearch projects at the university.
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eResearch@Melbourne Prof. Richard O. Sinnott Dr Steven Manos
Dirk van der Knijff Bernard Meade Natalie Gilka
Overview
ITS Research ServicesThe ITS Research Services unit supports the ICT requirements of researchers across the University that are beyond what can be provided at faculty level. It provides a range of physical resources (including computing, data and visualisation services) and advice, training and eResearch consultation. Current examples include:
• The availability of a large-scale central research data storage facility (currently 400TB in capacity with expansion planned)• Three full-time expert staff members available to support researchers in the areas of research computing, high-performance computing, visualisation and collaboration tools including an OptIPortal• Establishment of research computing training programmes, including the delivery of a Matlab scientific computing and visualisation course in early 2011.
Prof. Richard O. Sinnott (Director, eResearch) has been involved in numerous major e-Science initiatives in the UK and internationally. He was Director of the National e-Science Centre (NeSC) at the University of Glasgow, Deputy Director of the Bioinformatics Research Centre in Glasgow and been investigator on an extensive portfolio of eResearch projects across the e-Space. He joined the Melbourne eResearch Group in July 2010 and is responsible for shaping University-wide eResearch efforts .
Dr Steven Manos (ITS Manager Research Services)
Natalie Gilka: My role is to facilitate the use of High-Performance Computing (HPC) by the University’s scientific community. This covers issues of providing a networking platform for researchers who are involved in HPC as well as assessing the way HPC is used at the university, and investigating possible means of improvement. One of the most important aspects here is my interacting directly with the community of researchers - since my own research background lies in theoretical chemistry and mathematics, I have considerable common ground with scientists at the University of Melbourne.
Dirk van der Knijff :
Bernard Meade:
Anthony Stell: has worked on a portfolio of security-oriented projects at the NeSC in the UK including the EU FP7 Avert-IT project where he was sole software developer and which ran a major multi-centre clinical trial in the brain trauma domain exploring prediction of hypotension in a live clinical setting. He is the primary software developer on the ENSAT-CANCER project.
The University of Melbourne continues to strengthen its eResearch capability through the maturation of a number of significant undertakings and collaborations across its research portfolio. The current scale of eResearch development at the University in 2010 is reflective of the increasingly critical role the field plays in delivering high impact research outcomes. In line with its position as top ranked in multiple national research indicators, the University of Melbourne is correspondingly building its position of leadership in eResearch through participation in high profile, high impact initiatives, largely funded from Government sources. This leadership enables the University to derive tactical and strategic advantage by leveraging these investments to build its own e-infrastructure for the long-term sustainability of research excellence.
National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NeCTAR): www.nectar.org.au The University of Melbourne is lead agent on the $47m National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NeCTAR) project. The primary objectives of the NeCTAR project are to enhance research collaboration and research outcomes by providing Information and Communication Technology infrastructure that creates new information centric research capabilities; to significantly simplify the combining of instruments, data, computing, and analysis applications; and to enable the development of research workflows based on access to multiple resources.
European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumours (ENSAT-CANCER): www.ensat.orgThis major 5-year EU funded project begins in 2011, and will develop an advanced, security-oriented eResearch platform for all aspects of research into adrenal cancer. The project comprises clinical data registries, biobanking capabilities and will support two major clinical trials (sponsored by drug companies) comprising 2500 patients in each from 15 clinical centres across Europe. This project will serve as a template for many of the collaborative requirements of clinical and biomedical
researchers at Melbourne and the wider Parkville Precinct.
Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN): www.aurin.unimelb.edu.auThe University is lead agent for this $20M Super Science funded initiative, which will provide a targeted research infrastructure for built environment and urban researchers, designers and planners with infrastructure to facilitate access to a distributed network of aggregated datasets and information services. These datasets and services are essential to understanding patterns of urban development, and to form and model urban growth for a sustainable future. The data sets come from a rich source of providers including government organisations, commercial providers through to researchers themselves.
Australian National Data Service (ANDS) projects (www.ands.org.au)The University has been awarded $1.25M to contribute to the Australian Research Data Commons as well as to develop various discipline-specific data capture projects. Projects soon to be underway at the University include:
• Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre Bioinformatics Development Project• Longitudinal qualitative and quantitative survey data capture and reuse, Youth Resource Centre• Optimising Metadata Capture, Data Sharing Procedures and Long-term reuse of Video data in the Social Sciences• Human and mouse neuroimaging collections in the national data commons• Humanities and Social Science Data at the University of Melbourne• Capturing multimodal data to support research in cardiovascular and neurological medicine• Founders and Survivors Project
University of Melbourne eResearch Activities
Melbourne eResearch Group (www.eresearch.unimelb.edu.au) The Melbourne eResearch Group (MEG) exists to provide guidance and strategic advice on the development, support and delivery of eResearch platforms to the University’s research community, and to deliver eResearch platforms directly. The Group is seeking to grow a team of e-Enablers that can rapidly develop prototype research-oriented systems for the University research community, through to hardening and maintaining production-level research environments used in mission critical environments. The initial focus of the work is on the delivery of e-Security platforms to underpin data management, and collaborative services with potential applications across most research domains. The MEG and ITS Research Services are increasingly involved in delivering educational services either as stand alone initiatives or in conjunction with other eResearch centres or University departments.
ContactsProfessor Richard Sinnott [email protected] Dr Steven Manos [email protected]
Melbourne eResearch Group Linkages
The Melbourne eResearch Group collaborates with and leverages expertise from other University based groups such as: Digital Archiving and Preservation working group which is exploring the many challenges in supporting long term data management and digital data archiving;Victoria eResearch Strategic Initiative which provides advice and direct hands on collaborative support across a range of eResearch projects;eResearch Scholarship Centre which provides expertise in cultural informatics, archives, data preservation and sustainable information systems for research;Victoria Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) which provides a major high performance computing facility for the life sciences and is directly shaping many of the post-genomic life science efforts in Melbourne.Victoria Partnership for Advanced Computing which provides expertise, resources and collaboration on a range of eResearchprojects at the university.
