Mr. Dean Taylor1
1The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Biography:
Dean Taylor is a Senior DevOps Engineer specialising in research outcomes at the University of Sydney.
Abstract:
This talk is for anyone looking to work with CryoSPARC, responsible for research infrastructure or wants to pave the way to faster, supported research outcomes.
Cryogenic electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) is a cryomicroscopy technique applied on samples cooled to cryogenic temperatures.
CryoSPARC (Cryo-EM Single Particle Ab-Initio Reconstruction and Classification) is one of the sectors leading applications used for complete processing of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) data.
At the University of Sydney there has been significant investment to provide a richer array of services to the research community at scale. We have cherry picked the best of breed methodologies and products from the broader IT ecosystem to reduce overheads and improve turnaround times.
In this talk we will cover Cryo-EM and CryoSPARC. How we took an already exceptional product and wrapped it in:
– Automated application lifecycle management, including disaster recovery.
– Enhanced the security stance of the deployments.
– Introduced additional functionality such as multi-factor authentication (MFA).
– Managed multiple deployments at scale, including multi-user large-scale service to dedicated edge compute (CryoSPARC LIVE).
This is a repeatable pattern for many common research tools and provides a roadmap to a more agile and manageable environment so that researchers can just get on with the much cooler stuff.