Dr Slava Kitaeff1, Prof Wojtek Goscinski1, Prof Paul Bonnington1, Ms Farnoosh Sadeghian1, Dr David Poger2, Dr Kathryn Hall3, Dr Chao Suo1, Mr Dean Taylor4, Mr Jay Van Schyndel1, Ms Juliana Villa-Ortiz1
1Monash University, Clayton, Australia
2Microscopy Australia, Sydney, Australia
3The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
4The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
The Australian Characterisation Commons at Scale (ACCS) is a project funded by the Australian Research Data Commons with 11 project partners and other investors. The project is developing a coherent and accessible Characterisation Informatics landscape that promotes collaboration, increases return on investment, and delivers value to researchers in Australia who use characterisation techniques. The project also provides value to the facilities that run instruments and researchers using imaging collections. It creates a rich ecosystem of computing systems, data repositories, workflows, and services connected to the instruments.
The ACCS underpins a range of characterisation techniques, including electron and light microscopy, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG), electroencephalography (EEG), positron emission tomography (PET), X-ray Computerised Tomography (CT), nuclear and synchrotron techniques, cytometry, secondary-ion mass spectrometry, X-ray diffraction, scattering techniques, and nuclear magnetic resonance.
Through several work packages, ACCS is developing a suite of resources already accessible through a user portal.
This presentation will provide an overview and present a project update.
Biography:
Dr Slava Kitaeff is Associate Director eResearch (HPC) at Monash University. He previously worked as CTO at the Australian Square Kilometer Array Regional Centre (The University of Western Australia and CSIRO), where he has led an international group that is developing global architecture of the system that provides a solution for global data management and processing for the SKA Regional Centres. Prior to becoming the CTO of AusSRC, Dr Kitaeff was a Research Associate Professor in Data and HPC at the University of Western Australia working on new methods in remote data visualisation of multi-TB scientific datasets. He also led the development of a course in high-performance computing, which has been widely adopted.