Prof. Richard Sinnott1 1University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, rsinnott@unimelb.edu.au Almost 1000 Masters-level students at the University of Melbourne have been taught big data analytics on the NeCTAR Research Cloud since 2013 as part of the Cluster and Cloud Computing course....
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Dr Chris Hines1 1Monash eResearch Centre, Clayton, Australia Once upon a time, the CVL wanted to make graphical applications easy to use on HPC systems with big data storage. As part of this we created a simple tool that...
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Dr Chris Hines1 1Monash Eresearch Centre, Clayton, Australia Neural Networks are the new hawtness in machine learning and more generally in any field that relies heavily on computers and automation. Many people feel its promise is overhyped, but there...
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Prof. Richard O. Sinnott & the SWARM Team 1University of Melbourne rsinnott@unimelb.edu.au The Smartly-assembled, Wiki-style Argument Marshalling (SWARM) project was funded by the US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) as part of the Crowdsourcing Evidence, Argumentation, Thinking and...
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Mr Mike Grayson1 1Spectra Logic, Boulder, United States, mikegr@spectralogic.com As high performance computing (HPC) environments, universities, and research organizations continually tests the limits of technology and require peak performance from their equipment, the volume of data created each day will...
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Mrs Cassandra Sims1 1Elsevier, Chatswood, Australia, c.sims@elsevier.com Information systems supporting science have come a long way and include solutions that address many research data management needs faced by researchers, as well as their institutions. Yet, due to a fragmented...
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Dr Torben Kling Petersen1 1Cray Inc, Billdal, Sweden, tpetersen@cray.com Storage is becoming an increasingly more important component of modern HPC systems. The requirement for faster and larger solutions keep pushing the boundaries of what current hardware and software can...
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Nigel Rees1, Ben Evans2, Graham Heinson3, Jingbo Wang4, Lesley Wyborn5, Kelsey Druken6, Dennis Conway7 1The Australian National University (NCI), Canberra, Australia, nigel.rees@anu.edu.au 2The Australian National University (NCI), Canberra, Australia, ben.evans@anu.edu.au 3The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, graham.heinson@adelaide.edu.au 4The Australian National...
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Mr David Jericho1 1AARNet, Milton, Australia, david.jericho@aarnet.edu.au “Sync and Share is Dead. Long Live Sync and Share” discusses the increasing disinterest users have in simple file storage. Simple storage is a commodity service, with Google, DropBox, and other large providers...
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Dr Damien Watkins1 1CSIRO, Research Way, Clayton, Australia. Introduction Industry 4.0 (a.k.a. “fourth industrial revolution”) refers to the amalgamation of automation & robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), network communications, cloud/cluster computing, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction in manufacturing systems....
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