eResearch Newsletter May 2022

Dear Alex, here is the National eResearch Newsletter.

National eResearch Newsletter - May 2022

Message from AeRO:

I trust that you are all busily considering how and what to contribute to the eResearch Australasia Conference this year, which will take place in Brisbane from 17 to 20 October. Won’t it be great to meet face-face once more!? Meeting on-line does have many benefits, but nothing can replace the depth of conversation that can take place in person. There will be provision for on-line attendance (so it will be a hybrid conference), but speakers must be present in person.

There will be the usual mix of Workshops (taking place on the Monday and Friday of that week), Keynote Addresses, Oral Presentations, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, Lightning Talks and Posters. Posters will not close until 15-August, but the others close on 13-June, so there’s less than a month to get cracking! Go to the website at https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/.

Alex Reid, Newsletter Editor & eRA2022-PC Co-Chair.

CONTENTS:
* PHRN Linkage Luminaries Webinar: 18-May.
* NeSI Launches Online Office Hours Series: next session 18-May.
* Call for Submission: Venables Award: closes 20-May.
* Research Data Alliance Plenary 19: Early-Bird closes 20-May.
* Pawsey ASCII Competition for Setonix: by 21-May.
* Diversity & Inclusion in eResearch: 26-May.
* AI and ML in Drug Design and Discovery Showcase: 26-May.
* TechTalk: Common Data Model for Medical Research: 26-May.
* The Power of Visualisation @ Pawsey: 26-May.
* NCI Presents: TechTake 2022: next event 31-May.
* Review of RDM Framework for Australian Unis: closes 31-May.
* People Research Data Commons Consultations: 1 and 2-Jun.
* eResearch Australasia Conference: Call closes 13-Jun.
* International Data Week: starts 20-Jun.
* Recording Available: How Will RSEs Shape Statistics?
* Google Announces the Climate Innovation Challenge.
* New Zealand eScience Infrastructure Annual Review.
* Pawsey Capital Refresh Update.
* Predicting Patterns Among Kaimoana Species.
* Graduate Education Initiative for HPCD – Ongoing in 2022.
* Supercomputing is WA’s Secret Superpower.
* NCI’s New Flexible Adapter Scheme – Applications NOW OPEN.
* Experts Discuss Sharing Sensitive and Identifiable Human Data.

PHRN Linkage Luminaries Webinar: 18-May

Professor Louisa Jorm, UNSW, has played a leading role in establishing major infrastructure and capacity for ‘big data’ health research in Australia, including the ARDC-supported E-Research Institutional Cloud Architecture (ERICA) secure data analysis facility.

When: 18 May, 12pm (AEST).
Run by: PHRN.

For further information and to register, go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_On3viA-lTSuB9ziozglPew?utm_source=ARDC+Connect.

NeSI Launches Online Office Hours Series in May: next session 18-May

Have questions about New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) services? Looking for tips on how to optimise your HPC jobs? Or simply want to meet some of the team behind NeSI Support?

Join our new online Office Hours sessions, running weekly on Wednesdays in May! Each session will follow a casual 'drop-in / drop-out' format, where you can pop in at any point during the hour and stay for as long or as little as you'd like.

Learn more: https://www.nesi.org.nz/news/2022/04/connect-nesi-support-our-new-office-hours-series-may.

Call for Submission: Venables Award: closes 20-May

This call for submissions for the Venables Award for new developers of open source software for data analytics, sponsored by the ARDC, is now open, and now closes on 20-May (closing date extended). The goal of this award is to encourage new open source software development from the Australian community with a view to support efforts to develop and share data science and statistics methodology.

Learn more: https://statsocaus.github.io/venables-award/.

Research Data Alliance Plenary 19: Early-Bird closes 20-May

The 19th RDA Plenary Meeting, the biannual meeting of this international member organization working to develop and support global infrastructure facilitating data sharing and reuse, will be held from 20 to 23-Jun-22. Early-bird registrations are now open, and will close on 20-May.

Register: https://www.rd-alliance.org/plenary-meetings/next-plenary.
Run by: RDA.

Pawsey ASCII Competition for Setonix: by 21-May

To all ASCII artists out there! we are looking for ASCII quokkas to be included in Setonix's motd (message of the day). Submit your proposal in a comment to the Twitter post below, before 21 May (monochrome, max 80 characters wide). The winning quokka will be selected via Pawsey staff vote.

Submit your ASCII art here: https://twitter.com/PawseyCentre/status/1524673634752958464.

Connecting Advocates for Diversity & Inclusion in eResearch: 26-May

Did you know that the Australasia Chapter of Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC AusNZ) hosts Fortnightly Zoom Catchups? These sessions are a casual space for community members to connect and chat. Anyone is welcome to attend – we all have a role to play in supporting diversity and inclusion across the HPC and research sectors.

The next Zoom Catchup is Thursday 26 May at 12pm AWST / 2pm AEDT / 4pm NZDT. Come along to learn more.

Register here: https://t.co/WkVyAlqUU3.

AI and ML in Drug Design and Discovery Showcase: 26-May

In the 2nd Intersect and NCI showcase event, four peak presentations will highlight how large, high-quality datasets coupled with machine learning analysis are turbo-charging drug design and discovery. The presentations will be essential material for scientists working with HPC and Data analytics for drug design and in biosciences more broadly, from HDR students to ECRs and beyond.

See the showcase flyer: https://intersect.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Intersect_2022-Showcase-Flyer_F02.pdf.

There are only ten days to go till this live online event. If you are interested, please register yourself soon to participate!

Click here to register: https://bit.ly/362Cnmr.

Next TechTalk: Common Data Model for Medical Research: 26-May

The next TechTalk will be held on 26-May from 12:30 to 13:15 pm (AEST), and will feature Prof Dougie Boyle, Academic Specialist in Clinical Data Analytics, University of Melbourne.

Topic: Implementing the OHDSI OMOP Common Data Model for Medical Research.

This Data Model allows data consolidation of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) from diverse hospital and GP sources, enhancing research breadth.

More information about all Tech Talks: https://sites.google.com/ardc.edu.au/techtalk2020.

Sign up to the mailing list to get a calendar invite and Zoom link: https://sites.google.com/ardc.edu.au/techtalk2020/subscribe.

The Power of Visualisation @ Pawsey: 26-May

Join this event to meet Pawsey’s visualisation team, understand the FREE services on offer to ALL Australian researchers, and meet the researchers who are already using Nebula and Topaz to visualise their scientific research and the impact it has had on their data and science.

26 May 2022 | 11:00am - 12:30pm AWST, online.

This event is a showcase of the power of visualisation. With the increasing amount of simulation data generated by current large-scale supercomputers, visualisation plays an important role in the analysis of massive data sets.

Register here: https://pawsey.org.au/event/the-power-of-visualisation-pawsey/.

NCI Presents: TechTake 2022: next event 31-May

NCI’s TechTake 2022 series is an exciting opportunity for international computational and data science leaders to discuss and demonstrate how technology supports research. Taking place on the last Tuesday of each month, this event will run online in order to reach diverse audiences across the globe and from all fields. Each webinar begins at 11am AEST with a 45-minute presentation from the invited speaker, followed by a 15-minute Q&A session.

Please register via this link: https://bit.ly/techtake22.

All other upcoming NCI training sessions and the registration links are listed on our NCI Training and Educational Events page: https://bit.ly/nciopus.

Research Data Management Framework for Australian Universities: closes 31-May

The Australian research community is invited to review the Framework and provide feedback, which will help inform the final version.

Submissions close: 31 May.
Run by: ARDC.
Website: https://ardc.edu.au/collaborations/strategic-activities/national-data-assets/institutional-underpinnings/.

People Research Data Commons Program Consultations: 1 and 2-Jun

The ARDC is excited to launch a new digital research infrastructure program, called the People Research Data Commons, to support health and biomedical researchers in solving some of Australia’s biggest societal health and medical challenges for Australia. The new program is starting with consultations with the health research community.

The open forum roundtable sessions will be held as follows:

June 1, 2pm (AEST)
June 2, 10am (AEST)

For more information about the program, and to register interest, go to: https://ardc.edu.au/collaborations/strategic-activities/people-research-data-commons/.

eResearch Australasia Conference: Call for Papers closes 13-Jun

The eResearch Australasia Conference will take place this year from 17 to 21 October 2022, located in Brisbane, but will offer an online enrolment (speakers must be present in Brisbane). Workshops will take place on the Monday and the Friday, with the main Conference running Tuesday to Thursday.

A call has been issued for Oral Presentations, Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions, Lightning Talks, and Posters, as well as Workshops. The Workshops call closed on 15-April, though late applications may be considered. The main Call closes on 13-June, with Posters closing on 15-August.

Further information, and to make a submission: https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/.

International Data Week: starts 20-Jun

This landmark event will bring together data scientists, researchers, industry leaders, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and data stewards from disciplines across the globe to explore how best to exploit the data revolution to improve science and society through data-driven discovery and innovation. IDW 2022 will be hosted in Seoul, the Republic of Korea.

When: 20-23 June
Register: https://internationaldataweek.org/.
Run by: RDA, CODATA, WDS.

Recording Available: How Will RSEs Shape Statistics?

A Panel Discussion was organised on 26-Apr-22 by the Statistics Society and ARDC on the subject “Research software engineers how - will they shape statistics?”. This was recorded, and the recording is now available via the Statistical Society of Australia YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMtzLzFI02w.

Google Announces the Climate Innovation Challenge

Google has announced the Climate Innovation Challenge, providing Google Cloud Research Credits to support cutting-edge earth research. Through the new program, climate researchers in higher education and not-for-profit research organisations can apply for Google Cloud credit grants of up to $100,000 to accelerate their projects.

Google is working with specialist partners in environmental organisations, agriculture, and carbon reduction to help evaluate proposals and select participants. The first partner is the National Science Foundation AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES).

For details: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/climate-innovation-challenge-provides-google-cloud-credits.

Reflecting on 2021: New Zealand eScience Infrastructure Annual Review

New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) is pleased to share our 2021 Annual Review, celebrating the work we do, the people we work with, and the successes alongside what we're learning. We’ve made formative investments into future-oriented cloud-native HPC platforms and collaborated with partners to build digital capability and support nationally significant research. We’ve engaged in connections and hui with colleagues across the sector as we collectively look to inform the design of the future research system in Aotearoa New Zealand, and the eResearch infrastructure and capabilities to power and scale its successes.

Learn more: https://www.nesi.org.nz/news/2022/04/nesi-2021-annual-review-celebrates-work-we-do-people-we-work-and-successes-alongside.

Pawsey Capital Refresh Update

It has been a busy and exciting month at Pawsey with acceptance testing for Setonix Phase 1 being successfully performed and the Pawsey platforms team are now configuring Setonix for Researchers. This is a key milestone on our journey to migrating researchers to Setonix commencing at the end of May 2022.

At the same time, we are also finalising documentation and training material in preparation for the upcoming migration of workflows from the previous generation of Pawsey supercomputers.

The team is working on Training modules to support our researchers to transition to the new Setonix supercomputer.

Full update here: https://pawsey.org.au/about-us/capital-refresh/.

Predicting Patterns Among Kaimoana Species

New Zealand green mussels are an important export species, 75% being caught wild. Knowing where to catch the mussels is critical to improving the success and efficiency of harvesting activities. Victoria University of Wellington PhD candidate Calvin Quigley runs simulations that follow the trajectories of large numbers of mussel larvae using realistic ocean currents. The simulations are computationally intensive and Calvin called on New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) Research Software Engineers for help with improving the productivity of his research.

Read more: https://www.nesi.org.nz/case-studies/predicting-patterns-among-kaimoana-species.

Graduate Education Initiative for HPCD Domain Applications – Ongoing in 2022

This inaugural collaborative course HPC and Data in Materials Design and Discovery was launched as a live webinar event delivered by 14 internationally renowned professors and scientists from Sep to Nov 2021. See more: https://intersect.org.au/education/collaborative-graduate-courses/1st-graduate-course/.

In 2022, the registration remains open and course materials available to Australian HDR students and ECRs for self-paced learning with support from the coordinator, NCI Training and the teaching team. Click here for insights and reflections from the organising committee members: https://intersect.org.au/news/a-national-australian-collaborative-graduate-education-program-insights-from-the-academic-organising-committee/.

Interested researchers, new to the course, can click here to register free: https://hpcdinmaterialsdesignanddiscovery.eventbrite.com.au/.

Supercomputing is WA’s Secret Superpower

When it comes to predicting the industries that will drive the global economy in the next decade and beyond, there is one simple rule: to out-compute is to out-compete.

Industries that are data-rich, that make decisions quickly, and can use data to create value, will be the employers and economic drivers of the future.

Those with capacity will flourish, and that’s why investment in high performance supercomputing matters.

High performance computing — or HPC — is the secret weapon needed to transform industry.

Read the full story here: https://www.businessnews.com.au/article/Supercomputing-is-WA-s-secret-superpower.

NCI’s New Flexible Adapter Scheme – Applications NOW OPEN

In response to demand for a scheme that allows for flexible access to high-performance computing and cloud, NCI has launched a new merit-based access scheme. Quarterly allocations of up to 250 KSU to be used across NCI’s HPC, cloud and data environments are available through this scheme.

Applications to the Adapter Scheme are a one-step process requiring the submission of a short, two-page proposal and Chief Investigator details through the online NCI Adapter Scheme application form.

The NCI website has all the information about eligibility and how to apply: https://bit.ly/adapterq2.

Experts Discuss Sharing Sensitive and Identifiable Human Data

On 3 May 2022, ARDC held the first event of its Leadership Series on the topic of sharing sensitive and identifiable human data, with over 150 people participating in person and online.

The forum provided decision makers in academia, government and industry with the opportunity to work through some of the data challenges that are impacting Australia's researchers.

Further information, and to watch a recording of the event, or to view the slides, go to: https://ardc.edu.au/news/experts-discuss-sharing-sensitive-and-identifiable-human-data/.

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