Program 2011

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Presentations are also available as PDF documents.

Sunday 6 November 2011: Meetings and Conference Welcome

14:00-17:45 Meeting space available Meeting space available Meeting space available
18:00-19:30 Conference Welcome Reception

Monday 7 November 2011: Conference Day 1

8:00-8:30 Registration and coffee
GREEN ROOM
8:30-8:35 Welcome
Dr. Nick Tate, Director, RDSI
8:35-8:50 Opening address: Professor Max Lu, DVC(Research), The University of Queensland
8:50-9:10 Mr John Ryan PSM
Chair of National Research Infrastructure Council (NRIC)
Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
Video
9:10-10:10 Repository as App: Functionality to attract Dark Data
Professor Bryan Heidorn
Director, School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona
President, JRS Biodiversity Foundation
PDF
Video
10:10-10:45 Morning break
10:45-12:20 Stream 1
Green Room
Stream 2
Yellow Room
Stream 3
Blue Room
Sponsors
Orange Room
10:45-11:05 OzTrack: Data Management and Analytics Tools for Australian Animal Tracking
Peggy Newman, Nigel Ward, Hamish Campbell, Matthew Watts, Craig Franklin and Jane Hunter.
Video
Lessons from Intersect’s Engagement Experience
Joe Thurbon
The Accelerated Computing Initiative
Sam Moskwa
PDF
Data Curation for eResearch: Using the Oracle Optimized Solution for Lifecycle Content Management
Doug Chamberlain, Oracle
PDF
11:10-11:30 Connecting the dots to unify research data and metadata
Salim Taleb and Peter Hicks
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Outcomes of the NeAT Program: eResearch tools and services for national research communities
Paul Coddington
PDF
Research Data Infrastructure Approaches
Ann Borda, Lyle Winton
Designing a Data Storage Architecture for e-Research
Adrian De Luca – Hitachi Data Systems
PDF
11:35-11:55 From the sea to the clouds: TsuDAT, a community-based tsunami simulation application hosted in the cloud
Nick Horspool, Jeffrey Johnson and Ben Evans
PDF
Video
Panemalia: visualising longitudinal datasets at the Australian Data Archive
Kevin Pulo, Ben Evans, Deborah Mitchell and Steven Mceachern
The ‘Imax’ of science labs – the next generation of eResearch
Michael D’Silva and Chris Myers
Spend 100% of Your Research Resources doing Research!
Clive Gold – EMC
PDF
12:00-12:20 Research repository models: can one size fit all?
Ann Morgan and Mark Baldock
PDF
Video
Visualising spatially-coded data at the Australian Data Archive
Rhys Hawkins, Ben Evans, Deborah Mitchell and Steven Mceachern
Implementing eResearch Projects using Agile Development
Nicholas May
PDF
From Petascale to Exascale
Matthias Reumann – IBM
12:20-13:40 Lunch
13:40-14:25 Stream 1
Green Room
Stream 2
Yellow Room
Stream 3
Blue Room
Sponsors
Orange Room
13:40-14:00 Teaching the Digital Humanities through Virtual Research Environments
Craig Bellamy
PDF
Video
Classifying Data Sharing Models for e-Health Collaborations
Richard Sinnott
Video
CABER – A Registry for Recording and Reporting Australian Algal Blooms
Ron Chernich, Peggy Newman, Simon Mcnaughton and Jane Hunter
Heterogeneous HPC Systems for E-Research – NVIDIA
Xenon
14:05-14:25 Analysis and Visualisation Tools for Spatially Integrated Social Science
Nigel Ward, Tung-Kai Shyy, Syed Irfanullah and Friska Dhen Ungkara
PDF
Video
Managing sensitive data across the data life cycle
David Eyers and Russell Butson
PDF
Video
Transforming Research in Ecosystem
Peter Isaac, Calvin Chow, Simon Yu and Virginia Gutierre
The Last Bottleneck: How Parallel I/O can attenuate Amdahl’s Law
Rex Tanakit – Panasas
PDF
14:25-14:55 Afternoon break
14:55-17:00 BoFs 1
Green Room
BoFs 2
Yellow Room
BoFs 3
Blue Room
BoFs 4
Orange Room
14:55-15:55 Joining the Dots
Belinda Weaver, Nigel Ward and Suzanne Morris
PDF
Mobility Research Tools Roundtable. “ A look at the current activity in the Research Sector with Mobile Devices and what they need to address within the changing research environment”
Andrew Alexander
Dark Data and the Long Tail of Science
Lesley Wyborn, Bryan Heidorn and Andrew Treloar
PDF
Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network
Richard Sinnott and Martin Tomko
16:00-17:00 Starting up in eResearch? How to Hit the Ground Running
Andrew Cheetham, Andrew Leahy and Peter Bugeia
PDF
Video
Open and shut (or not): Conversations about data, access and openness
Kylie Bailin and Joanne Croucher
PDF
OPeNDAP Server-Side Capabilities and Other Supports for Data-Intensive Science
David Fulker and James Gallagher
PDF
Epic Fails in eResearch
Joe Thurbon, Anne Cregan, Bill Appelbe, Paul Coddington, Rob Cook, Luke Edwards, Paola Petrelli and Phil Tannenbaum
17:00-18:15 Posters reception
In the Exhibition Area

Tuesday 8 November 2011: Conference Day 2

8:00-8:30 Registration and coffee
8:30 -10:30 Stream 1
Green Room
Stream 2
Yellow Room
Stream 3
Blue Room
Sponsors
Orange Room
8:30 -8:50 Licensing Australia’s Research Outputs Under a Single Framework
Baden Appleyard
CSIRO eResearch Architecture
Liam O’Brien
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A National Environmental Satellite Data Virtual Labortory
Edward King, Ben Evans, Lesley Wyborn, Wenjun Wu, Leo Lymburner, Medhavy Thankappan, Peter Tan, Fei Zhang, Mark Gray, Joseph Anthony, Muhammad Atif, Matt Paget, Stefan Maier and Thomas Schroeder
PDF
Data Centric Computing
Bill Mannel – SGI
PDF
8:55 -9:15 Towards an e-Infrastructure for Australian Urban Research
Richard Sinnott, Martin Tomko, Gerson Galang and Robert Stimson
PDF
Video
Karaage – Cluster account management and reporting
Andrew Isaac and Sam Morrison
PDF
Sustainable Solutions to Intellectual Property and Ethical Complexities in Building a National Corpus
Robyn Rebollo, Michael Haugh, Simon Musgrave and Xiaobin Shen
PDF
Scalable Solutions for Geo-Distributed Collaborative Research
John Josephakis – Data Direct Networks
9:20 -9:40 Outcomes of the Marine and Climate Data Discovery and Access Project (MACDDAP)
Peter Blain, Paola Petrelli, Jason Lohrey and Nathan Bindoff
PDF
Video
Taking TARDIS Into New Dimensions: Results and Reflections
Steve Androulakis, Ulrich Felzmann, Alistair Grant, Ian Thomas, Ryan Green, Grischa Meyer, Anthony Beitz, Paul Bonnington, Chris Myers, Heinz Schmidt and Ashley Buckle
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OpenCL implementations of principal component analysis for large scale data analysis and benchmarking of heterogeneous clusters
Joshua Bowden
PDF
Cisco and Openstack
Ram Durairaj
Cisco
9:45 -10:05 Platforms for Research Data Management: Lessons Learned
Anthony Beitz
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The SkyNet: Harnessing the Power of the Community for Radio Astronomy Research
Andrew Buttsworth, Rhys Newman and Pete Wheeler
Nationwide Collaboration for Research Infrastructure & Services
Mary Hobson, Andrew Rohl, Rob Cook, Ian Gibson, Bill Applebe and Nathan Bindoff
Accelerating the Path to Exascale
Matthew Jones – Intel
10:10-10:30 CSIRO Remote Visualisation Capability
Justin Baker and Peter Tyson
PDF
Video
Provenance-Aware Automated Data Quality Control
Qing Liu, Greg Timms, Yanfeng Shu, Daniel Smith and Andrew Terhorst
The Tropical Data Hub (TDH) – A virtual research environment for tropical science knowledge innovation and discovery
Trina Myers, Jarrod Trevathan, Ian Atkinson, Rob Cook Cook and Jeremy Vanderwal
PDF
Software, Community and Sustainability
Ian Dolphin and Paul Walk – VERSI
PDF
10:30-11:00 Morning break
Green Room
11:00-12:50 Australian eResearch infrastructure 2012 and beyond Forum
Forum Chair –
Dr Ron SandilandPanel – Prof Tom Cochrane
Ms Cheryl Kut
Dr Rhys Francis
Prof Andrew Pitman
Video
12:50-14:10 Lunch
14:10-14:55 Stream 1
Green Room
Stream 2
Yellow Room
Stream 3
Blue Room
Sponsors
Orange Room
14:10-14:30 Lessons for data sharing from institutional repositories
Rebecca Parker, Dana Mckay and Terrence Bennett
PDF
Video
The CSIRO eResearch Strategy: Transforming the way research is done in CSIRO
John Taylor
Data (Intensive) Science – the game has changed (point) or has it (counterpoint)? Peter Fox
Jane Hunter
John Morrissey
Stuart Hungerford

How Maid can play an important role in large Petascale Research Archives
Lance Evans – SGI
14:35-14:55 Data Capture from High-Performance Computing Facilities: A Case Study
Venki Balasubramanian, Amir Aryani, Ian Thomas and Heinz Schmidt
PDF
Video
Clinical Application of Cardiac Modelling: a Need for Supercomputing?
Matthias Reumann, Andreas Pflaumer, Coeli M Lopes, Blake G Fitch, Michael C Pitman, Changhuan Kim, Simon Wail, Stephen Moore, Ryan Hoefen, Arthur J Moss, Jin O-Uchi, Christian Jons, Scott Mcnitt, Wojciech Zareba, Ilan Goldenberg, David Abramson and John J Rice
Scale isn’t Free
Rob Mollard – DataDirect Networks
14:55-15:25 Afternoon break
15:25-17:30 BoFs 1
Green Room
BoFs 2
Yellow Room
BoFs 3
Blue Room
BoFs 4
Orange Room
15:25-16:25 User-facing Data Services and Capability Building – Institutional Development (BoF)
Teula Morgan and Lyle Winton
eResearch State Agencies
Anne Cregan, Joe Thurbon, Bill Appelbe, Peter Blain, Ann Borda, Graham Chen, Luke Edwards, Mary Hobson and Phil Tannenbaum
ANDS Projects BoF
David Groenewegen
Harmonizing Spatial Data Services for Earth and Environmental Science Applications in Data Clouds and Petascale Computing
Tim Pugh, Ben Evans and Lesley Wyborn
16:30-17:30 Humanities and Creative Arts eResearch Consortium: A BoF for Practitioners
Kerry Kilner, Jonathan Bollen, Richard Maltby, Deb Verhoeven and Ross Harley
BoF cont… eResearch Education and Training
Valerie Maxville, Lyle Winton, Markus Buchhorn, Sam Searle, Anna Shadbolt and Belinda Weaver
The NeCTAR Project and Programs: Clouds, Apps and Virtual Labs
Glenn Moloney, Steven Manos, Tom Fifield and Bernard Meade
19:00-22:30 Conference dinner

Wednesday 9 November 2011: Conference Day 3F

8:40-9:10 Registration and coffee
Green Room
9:10-9:15 Welcome
Dr. Nick Tate, Director, RDSI
9:15-10:25 Peter Fox
Tetherless World Constellation Chair
PDF
10:25-10:45 Developer Community Supporting Innovation (DevCSI)
Paul Walk
PDF
Video
10:45-11:10 Morning break
11:10-12:20 Stream 1
Green Room
Stream 2
Yellow Room
Stream 3
Blue Room
Sponsors
Orange Room
11:10-11:30 A Virtual Research Environment for International Adrenal Cancer Research
Richard Sinnott and Anthony Stell
PDF
Video
Building training into the value proposition of eResearch
Anna Shadbolt and Ann Borda
PDF
Precision Medicine: Dawn of Supercomputing in ‘omics Research
Matthias Reumann, Kathryn E Holt, Michael Inouye, Tim Stinear, Benjamin W Goudey, Gad Abraham, Qiao Wang, Fan Shi, Adam Kowalczyk, Adrian Pearce, Andrew Isaac, Bernie J Pope, Helmut Butzkueven, John Wagner, Stephen Moore, Matthew Downton, Philip C Church, Steve J Turner, Judith Field, Melissa Southey, David Bowtell, Daniel Schmidt, Enes Makalic, Justin Zobel, John Hopper, Slave Petrovski and Terence O’Brien
Scale Out Infrastructure Powering eResearch
Mark Nielsen – HP
11:35-11:55 Mind the Gap! Moving From Aspiration to Experience in UK Institutional Research Data Management
Leslie Carr
PDF
Video
The FileSender project: integrated software development from Proof-of-Concept code to package
Guido Aben, Wendy Mason, Paul Bonnington and Louis Moresi
PDF
PHRNi – SURE
Jared Berghold and Tim Churches
eResearch Collaboration – Solved problem or eResearch’s greatest challenge ?
Peter Elford
Cisco
PDF
12:00-12:20 Building Data Management services supporting a multi-disciplinary national research organization
John Morrissey
PDF
Video
Costs and benefits of data provision
Adrian Burton and Greg Laughlin
PDF
An archive for optical astronomy
Rod Harris, Jon Smillie and Ben Evans
Presentation
12:20-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:25 Stream 1
Green Room
Stream 2
Yellow Room
Stream 3
Blue Room
Sponsors
Orange Room
13:30-13:50 Public Record Office Victoria Crowdsourcing Transcription Project
Conal Tuohy and Abigail Belfrage
Video
Virtual Geophysics Laboratory (VGL): scientific workflows exploting the Cloud
Ryan Fraser, Terry Rankine, Josh Vote, Lesley Wyborn and Ben Evans
PDF
OPeNDAP Roadmap to New Server-Side Capabilities and Other Supports for Data-Intensive Science
Dave Fulker
PDF
Presentation
13:55-14:15 eResearch Survey: first longitudinal report
Leonie Hellmers
PDF
Video
Semantically-Enabling the Web of Things: The W3C Semantic Sensor Network Ontology
Kerry Taylor, Michael Compton and Laurent Lefort
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The Multi-Modal Australian ScienceS Imaging and Visualisation Environment (MASSIVE) for Near Realtime CT Reconstruction using XLI at Australian Synchrotron
Wojtek Goscinski, Timur Gureyev, Chris Hall, Anton Maksimenko, Arthur Sakellariou and Darren Thompson
Presentation
14:15-14:45 Afternoon break
Green Room
14:45-15:55 Closing plenary
Jan Brase
Managing Agent, DataCite
PDF
Video

Thursday 10 November 2011: Workshops and Meetings

8:30-9:00 Workshop registration and coffee
9:00-12:30 State 3
Full Day:
Making the Semantic Web Work For Physical Science
Lake 3
Half Day:
ReDBox and Mint Workshop 1: research data management for your organisation
Lake 1+2
Half Day:
Building a culture of research data citation
Park
Half Day:
Using OPeNDAP-enabled Applications and Tools for Accessing Australian Data Repositories
12:30-13:15 Lunch
13:15-16:45 cont..
Making the Semantic Web Work For Physical Science
Lake 3
Half Day:
ReDBox and Mint Workshop 2: technical primer
Lake 1+2
Half Day:
Exploiting VIVO for eResearch Activities

Friday 11 November 2011: Workshops and Meetings

8:30-9:00 Workshop registration and coffee
9:00-12:30 Sebel 1
Full Day:
Maximizing HPC utilization with PBS Professional®
Lake 4
Full Day:
Federating eXtreme Services: A Skills Development Workshop
Lake 2
Half Day:
Virtual Research Environment Toolkit for SharePoint
Lake 3
Half Day:
Introduction to Machine Learning
Park
Full Day:
Scholarly International Infrastructure Technical Summit
Andrew Treloar
By Invitation only
12:30-13:15 Lunch
13:15-16:45 cont..
Maximizing HPC utilization with PBS Professional®
cont..
Federating eXtreme Services: A Skills Development Workshop
Lake 3
Half Day:
Managing a research project with Heurist version 3
cont..
Scholarly International Infrastructure Technical Summit
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