Month: August 2018

Fabiana Kubke1, Georgina Rae2, Nick Jones3 1University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, fabiana.kubke@auckland.ac.nz 2New Zealand eScience Infrastructure, Auckland, New Zealand, georgina.rae@nesi.org.nz 3New Zealand eScience Infrastructure, Auckland, New Zealand, nick.jones@nesi.org.nz   Training is integral to how NeSI supports New Zealand researchers...

Dr Chris Tuke Flanders1, Dr Tyne Daile Sumner1 1University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia   The Research Bazaar (est at UniMelb) is now in its 5th year as a global community with over 17 participating Universities worldwide.  #ResBaz is a grassroots...

Rakib Hassan1, John Wilford2 1Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia, rakib.hassan@ga.gov.au 2Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia, john.wilford@ga.gov.au   ‘Uncover’ Machine Learning Uncover Machine Learning is an initiative at Geoscience Australia to exploit recent advances in machine learning as a predictive analytics tool to...

Paul Box1, Kheeran Dharmawardena2 1CSIRO, Black Mountain, Australia, Paul.J.Box@csiro.au 2Atlas of Living Australia, Melbourne, Australia, Kheeran.Dharmawardena@csiro.au   Information infrastructure used by research comprising systems, data, processes and people providing this infrastructure (provider community) has evolved to underpin specific communities (user...

Mr Oliver Cairncross1 1Research Computing Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, o.cairncross@uq.edu.au   Summary Modern high throughput microscopy instruments, such as lattice light-sheet microscopy (LLSM), generate large volumes of data necessitating the development of new systems to facilitate computation and...

Piotr Szul1,Aidan O’Brien2, Robert Dunne3, Denis C. Bauer2  1Data61, CSIRO, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, piotr.szul@data61.csiro.au 2Health & Biosecurity, CSIRO, Sydney, NSW, Australia 3Data61, CSIRO, Sydney, NSW, Australia   INTRODUCTION Recent advances in genome sequencing technologies and bioinformatics have enabled whole-genomes  to...

Peter Walsh1, Emma Flukes2, Vanessa Lucieer3, Claire Butler4, Mark Hepburn5, Craig Johnson6 1Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, Peter.Walsh@utas.edu.au 2Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, Emma.Flukes@utas.edu.au 3Institute for...

Mr Melroy Almeida1,Dr Amir Aryani2 1Australian Access Federation, Brisbane, Australia, melroy.almeida@aaf.edu.au 2Research Graph, Melbourne, Australia amir.aryani@researchgraph.org   eResearch Infrastructure comprising of systems, data, instruments and people supporting the infrastructure continues to evolve providing higher education institutions and research organisations with...

Mr Lee Belbin1 1The Atlas of Living Australia, Carlton, Australia,lee.belbin@csiro.au   The Atlas of living australia The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA: http://www.ala.org.au) has around 75 million observations of species. The ALA has also collected over 500 regional, national and...

Dr Dale Peters1, Dr Elisha Chiware2 1UCT, Cape Town, South Africa, dale.peters@uct.ac.za 2CPUT, Cape Town, South Africa, ChiwareE@cput.ac.za   ILIFU is the isiXhosa word for Cloud, an apt representation of the first node in the data infrastructure funded by the...