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Dear Alex, here is the Australasian eResearch Newsletter.
Australasian eResearch Newsletter - August 2023
Message from AeRO (with a little help from ChatGTP):
 
The Australasian eResearch Organisations (AeRO) is a collaborative incorporated body dedicated to advancing digital capabilities in research.  It fosters partnerships among research institutions, promoting knowledge exchange and technological innovation.  AeRO enhances Australia and New Zealand's research landscape by facilitating networking, resource sharing, and expertise dissemination, enabling more effective eResearch initiatives across all disciplines.
 
Its main instruments are the annual eResearch Australasia Conference (https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/), the annual Forum (https://aero.edu.au/forum/), and this Newsletter.  The Conference runs this year from 16 to 20 October, in Brisbane.  Earlybird Registration closes on 1st September.
 
Alex Reid, Newsletter Editor.
CONTENTS:
* EOIs for Pawsey Merit Allocation Committees:  by 18-Aug.
* NCI Upcoming Training:  from 22-Aug.
* Translation Pathways - Research, Industry & Government:  22-Aug.
* CloudStor Decommission Clinics:  next on 23-Aug.
* Tech Talk 22:  Knowledge and Property Graphs:  24-Aug.
* HPC and Data in Computational Fluid Dynamics:  29th Aug to 23rd Nov.
* Research Environments for Health and Medical Research:  5-Sep.
* NZ Research Software Engineering Conference:  18 to 19-Sep.
* Pawsey Work Experience Call for Students:  27-Sep and 22-Nov.
* Workshop on Accelerator Programming & Directives:  12 to 17-Nov.
* A Unique Gathering of the HPC, AI and Data Science Community.
* NCI Science and Technology Flagships.
* NCI Adapter Scheme Supports Novel AI/ML Studies.
* NCI Helps Revolutionise Cancer Treatment with Precision Medicine.
* SupercomputingAsia 2024 Opens Call for Session Submissions.
* EOIs to Join NCMAS Scientific Advisory Committee.
* A ‘Digital Health Revolution’ to Tackle Chronic Diseases.
* QCIF and UQ Head to iAwards Final.
* Global Galaxy Conference a Success.
* National Researcher Survey Reveals Cloud Computing.
EOIs for Pawsey Merit Allocation Committees:  by 18-Aug
The Pawsey Partner Merit Allocation Committee is responsible for allocating shares of the Setonix supercomputer to meritorious research projects based on the project’s requirements, merit of the project, and overall resources available.
 
Pawsey is seeking additional committee members to expand its scope of research domain expertise, to cover new and emerging domains.  Appointments will be for one to two years.
 
EOIs are welcomed from appropriately qualified researchers, especially in these areas:
  • Data Science and Machine Learning 
  • Bioinformatics and Life Science
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Quantum Computing
  • Astrophysics 
  • Materials Science
Send submissions to allocation-committee@pawsey.org.au by 18-Aug-23.
 
Link:  https://pawsey.org.au/expression-of-interest-for-merit-allocation-committees/.
NCI Upcoming Training:  from 22-Aug
Join us to enhance your skills diving into the world of High-Performance Computing (HPC) using PBS Pro, learn to program with Python, and more.  Perfect for beginners and tech enthusiasts alike!  Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your skills and optimise your workflow.  Various courses starting 22-Aug-23.
 
Register to our training sessions here:  https://bit.ly/NCItrainingcalendar.
Translation Pathways Between Research, Industry and Government:  22-Aug
The ARDC Leadership Series provides decision makers in academia, government and industry with the opportunity to work through data challenges facing Australian researchers.  This is the first Forum for 2023, and will explore the translation pathways between research, industry and government.  It will bring together thought leaders from all sectors to discuss lowering transaction costs of data access, methods of systematically applying trust and realising the value of all sectors working together.
 
Where/When:  2-4pm (AEST), Tuesday, 22 August, ANU and online
 
More information and to register:  https://ardc.edu.au/event/ardc-leadership-series-translation-pathways-between-research-industry-and-government/.
CloudStor Decommission Clinics:  next on 23-Aug
AARNet is hosting monthly clinics to help CloudStor users with issues they may be having downloading or migrating data from their CloudStor drives ahead of the CloudStor decommission on 15 December 2023.
 
Staff from the AARNet eResearch, CloudStor and Support teams will be present to answer your questions and provide information.
 
CloudStor Clinics are open to everyone – CloudStor users, IT staff, research support staff and institution/tenant admins, and anyone else who is interested.
 
These clinics will be run monthly, with the next session to be held on 29 August 2023 at 1 pm AEST.
 
Find out more or register at:  https://www.aarnet.edu.au/cloudstor-decommission-clinics.
Tech Talk 22:  Knowledge and Property Graphs:  24-Aug
In this Tech Talk, Dr Nicholas Car will provide a summary of NoSQL and explain the concepts of Graphs, Knowledge Graphs and Labelled Property Graphs.  He will describe their design motivations and strengths and weaknesses.  Example technologies that implement various forms of graph will be covered, including GraphDB, AllegroGraph, Neo4J, ArcGIS Pro Knowledge, and Apache Jena Fuseki.  He will conclude with some lessons learned from working in this space, and provide some key advice for those looking to explore Property Graphs and Knowledge Graphs.
 
When:  24 August 2023, 2.00pm AEST.
Where:  Online.
 
More information and to sign up:  https://eresear.ch/techtalk.
HPC and Data in Computational Fluid Dynamics:  29th Aug to 23rd Nov
If you are an HDR student or ECR based in an Australian university or research organisation, pursuing research in computational fluid dynamics, or seeking a comprehensive course with tutorial experience to boost your research capability, then this course is something you cannot miss out on in 2023!
 
The curriculum is based on extensive community consultation and to be delivered by internationally renowned scientists from academia and industry.
 
Meet the TEACHING TEAM: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tBPK5r6zUQuJubssVit7_mbsvnH46O2q/view.
Course FLYER:  https://lnkd.in/gWBWKsd5.
REGISTER here:  https://inter.fyi/DY0Am.
 
This community centred collaborative course is supported by Intersect and NCI Australia.
Research Environments for Health and Medical Research:  5-Sep
Join this second of the 2023 ARDC Leadership forums to hear thought leaders discuss trusted research environments (TREs) for sensitive health and medical data.
 
Health and medical data is by nature extremely sensitive, and the national data landscape for health research is rich, diverse and complex, spanning multiple sectors, jurisdictions and data types.  Huge potential is hidden within these data for improving Australian healthcare, but researchers will need access to the data through trusted secure platforms (some are being developed now), which will protect the data from unauthorised access.
 
Where/When:  2-4pm AEST, 5 September, Melbourne.
 
More information and to register:  https://ardc.edu.au/event/ardc-leadership-series-trusted-research-environments-for-health-and-medical-research/.
Save the Date:  NZ Research Software Engineering Conference:  18 to 19-Sep
Now in its fourth year, NeSI’s annual New Zealand Research Software Engineering (NZ RSE) Conference continues to support and grow the community of those who write code and develop applications that enable research.  This year's event will be held online from 18-19 September 2023 and themed:  Responsible Research in a Shifting World: Balancing Opportunities and Challenges.
 
Read more:  https://www.nesi.org.nz/news/2023/06/save-date-nz-research-software-engineering-conference-happening-online-18-19-september.
Pawsey Work Experience Call for Students:  27-Sep and 22-Nov
Year 10, 11 and 12 Students are invited to Pawsey on September 27th or on November 22nd to hear all about how they could do work experience with us!  There are two opportunities for students to attend, with the highlights for the day including:
  • Learning about the research being done at Pawsey – which includes a tour of Pawsey’s new Visualisation Lab.
  • Participating in workshops, activities and challenges.
  • Learning about different career paths and opportunities.
  • Mapping your interests and aspirations.
Link:  https://pawsey.org.au/event/pawsey-work-experience-call-for-students-27-september-2023/. Or
Link:  https://pawsey.org.au/event/pawsey-work-experience-call-for-students-22-november-2023/.
Workshop on Accelerator Programming and Directives:  12 to 17-Nov
Hosted by Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre’s Marciej Cytowski, the aim of the 10th WACCPD 2023 workshop is to share methods and case studies that demonstrate programmability, performance, and performance portability across architectures for various distributed HPC, data, and AI workloads.
 
As part of SC23, this workshop will be part of an unparalleled mix of thousands of scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, developers, and system administrators who intermingle to learn, share, and grow.  Each year, SC provides the leading technical program for the HPC community, which is designed to share best practices in all areas of HPC.
 
Link:  https://pawsey.org.au/event/tenth-workshop-on-accelerator-programming-and-directives-waccpd-2023/.
A Unique Gathering of the HPC, AI and Data Science Community
Two hundred high-performance computing, data science and artificial intelligence researchers from more than 40 organisations and 6 countries came together last month to share their experience in computational and data science at the Australasian Leadership Computing Symposium.  The event took place from 14 to 16 June in Canberra.
 
Recordings of the Plenary and Lightning Talks are now available online!  You can enjoy the presentations on NCI’s YouTube channel:  https://bit.ly/ALCS2023_Recordings.
 
Read the full recap here:  https://bit.ly/ALCS2023_Recap.
NCI Science and Technology Flagships
During ALCS 2023, NCI announced three new Flagships, representing core areas of focus for us in terms of software development, community support and public messaging.  The three Flagships are:
  • Climate, Weather and Geosciences
  • Biomedical and Genomics Data
  • AI Growth Enabler at NCI (AIGENCI)
Watch the NCI Flagships presentation videos here:  https://bit.ly/NCI_Flagships.
NCI Adapter Scheme Supports Novel AI/ML Studies
NCI is pleased to announce the recipients of grants for Q3 2023 through our popular Adapter Allocation Scheme.  The 53 successful recipients include researchers investigating the flow dynamics of airborne droplets in indoor settings, using deep learning for cancer prediction, and studying methods for solar panel recycling.
 
The Adapter Scheme provides researchers with computing time on the Gadi supercomputer as well as access to nationally significant data collections, specialised virtual analysis tools, and optimised software platforms, to speed up and simplify the scientific research process.
 
More details here:  https://bit.ly/Adapter_Q32023Recipients.
NCI Helps Revolutionise Cancer Treatment with Precision Medicine
PrOSPeCT (Precision Oncology Screening Platform Enabling Clinical Trials), is Australia’s largest cancer genomics initiative aiming to revolutionise cancer treatment and provide new hope for patients with difficult-to-treat cancers.  The program will promote precision medicine, unite Australia’s top cancer institutes, researchers, industry partners and government bodies, and offer free genomic profiling to 23,000 Australians who are battling incurable or advanced cancers.
 
NCI is proud to be a core partner of this initiative, providing the infrastructure, cybersecurity, and big data computing to enable the incredible health impacts to come.
 
Find out more here:  https://nci.org.au/news-events/news/australia-launches-prospect-revolutionizing-cancer-treatment-precision-medicine.
SupercomputingAsia 2024 Opens Call for Session Submissions
SupercomputingAsia (SCA) is co-organised by HPC Centres from Japan, Australia, Singapore, Thailand and New Zealand, and more.  It will be held in Australia for the first time, from 19-22 February 2024.  This will uplift Australian research and industry engagement to the regional scale across more than 30 countries in Asia.  With the theme of “Exascale readiness in AI, HPC, and Quantum“, the conference offers business development opportunities and forum for HPC/AI/Quantum thought leadership, information exchange between industry and academics, requirements and developments, regional stakeholders’ networking, technology showcases, and fosters collaborations.
 
Subscribe SCA2024 newsletter, and find out more:  https://sca24.sc-asia.org.
Expressions of Interest to Join NCMAS Scientific Advisory Committee
The National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS) is seeking expressions of interest from researchers to join its Scientific Advisory Committee for 2023-2026.  NCMAS is Australia’s leading scheme for accessing HPC resources on NCI’s and Pawsey’s world-class supercomputers.  Taking part in the NCMAS Committee provides a valuable service to the wider computational science community and gives members an important experience within a nationally significant grant scheme.
 
Details on how to submit an EOI are in this document:  https://nci.org.au/sites/default/files/documents/2023-08/2023-2026_NCMAS_SAC_Membership_EoI_Call_8%20August.pdf.
A ‘Digital Health Revolution’ to Tackle Chronic Diseases
QCIF is contributing to a $13.7 million project to unlock digital health data on debilitating diseases.
 
Associate Professor Clair Sullivan and her team at UQ’s Queensland Digital Health Centre (QDHeC) have secured $6 million in funding from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) National Critical Research Infrastructure scheme for a National Infrastructure for Federated Learning in Digital Health (NINA) project.  This will enable researchers to use machine learning to access siloed information on debilitating chronic diseases such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.  An additional $7.7 million is being contributed by QCIF, UQ, Monash and Macquarie universities.
 
Read more:  https://www.qcif.edu.au/news/a-digital-health-revolution-to-tackle-chronic-diseases/.
QCIF and UQ Head to iAwards Final
QCIF and The University of Queensland are in the running for an Australian Information Industry Association national iAward after placing in the state competition.
 
QCIF and UQ were a Merit Recipient in the Technology Platform Solution category in the Queensland iAwards at CQUniversity in Brisbane on Thursday, 20 July. 
 
The recognition was for KeyPoint (https://www.qcif.edu.au/keypoint/), an eResearch platform that revolutionises the way data stewards manage and share sensitive research data for analysis by approved researchers, with strict governance controls at scale. 
 
Read more:  https://www.qcif.edu.au/news/qcif-and-uq-head-to-iawards-national-final/.
Global Galaxy Conference a Success
More than 130 delegates from 20 countries attended last month’s international Galaxy Community Conference in Brisbane to discuss the bioinformatics platform’s latest developments.
 
More than 90 attended GCC2023 in person at the Queensland University of Technology’s (QUT) The Cube facility, with 40 attending virtually.
 
Galaxy Australia (https://usegalaxy.org.au/) Project Lead Dr Gareth Price said the attendance numbers were close to last year’s conference in America . “Since we’re so far away from the traditional hosting sites in the USA and Europe, we’re very pleased that so many chose to travel to GCC2023 in person,” he said.
 
Read more:  https://www.qcif.edu.au/news/global-galaxy-conference-a-success-in-brisbane/.
Widespread Use of Cloud Computing Revealed by National Researcher Survey
In June 2023, the ARDC ran a survey to better understand how researchers in Australia use cloud computing services.  It revealed that the overwhelming majority of respondents (97%) use cloud resources, which includes researchers across all Field of Research (FoR) codes, but Biological Sciences, Earth Sciences, Health Sciences and Information and Computer Sciences dominated in this survey.
 
Over half of respondents were using cloud technologies to store or process controlled or sensitive data, with the two most significant factors driving the choice of cloud platform being ease of use and cost.
 
See:  https://ardc.edu.au/article/widespread-use-of-cloud-computing-revealed-by-national-researcher-survey/.
Contributions
This newsletter is based on contributions from members of the eResearch community, and draws on news articles and newsletters published across the sector. The Newsletter is published around the 16th of each month. Please send all contributions (max. 100 words + link + image) or pointers to any other relevant articles or newsletters to editor@aero.edu.au.
Newsletter archives are available at http://aero.edu.au/newsletters/.
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Thanks, Alex Reid, AeRO Newsletter Editor.
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