eResearch Newsletter May 2023

Dear Alex, here is the National eResearch Newsletter.

National eResearch Newsletter - May 2023

Message from AeRO:

AeRO has now reconstituted itself as an Incorporated body, so will be in a better position to accept new membership applications and to represent the organisations and people who are driving the eResearch agenda in Australia and New Zealand. We look forward to expanding the membership and our services to members and the sector. See https://aero.edu.au/.

Two of the most important ways AeRO serves the community are by the annual 1-day Forum and the annual eResearch Australasia Conference.

The Forum this year will be held in Canberra on 13-June (see article in the body of this Newsletter). The Conference will be held from 16 to 20-Oct in Brisbane (also detailed below).

Alex Reid, Newsletter Editor.

CONTENTS:
* Sensitive Data Interest Group Meeting: 17-May.
* Next Carpentries Community Call: 18-May.
* Research Software Developers Forum: 18-May.
* Getting Started with HPC at NCI using PBSPro: 18-May.
* HIP Workshop: 16 to 19-May.
* Unearthing Research Software Report EOI: by 19-May.
* CloudStor Decommission Clinics: next one 23-May.
* Setonix Phase 2 Migration Training: 23-May.
* Pint of Science Festival: 22 to 24-May.
* Setonix Phase 2 Migration Ask.Me.Anything: 24-May.
* eResearch-Australasia Abstracts due: 25-May.
* Survival C/C++ for HIP and OpenCL: 8-Jun.
* Pawsey Internships: Call for Projects: by 9-Jun.
* AeRO Forum: eResearch and AI: 13-Jun.
* Upcoming AI and HPC Workshops from NCI: 13-Jun.
* ALCS 2023 Canberra: 14 to 16-Jun.
* OpenCL Workshop: June 21, 22, 28-29.
* Galaxy Community Conference GCC2023: 10-Jul.
* AeRO Jobs Board Rebooted.
* Biosecurity Platform Launched.
* NCI’s Vizlab Communicates Breakthroughs to the World.
* NCI Julia User Workshop Expression of Interest.
* WHPC+ AusNZ - 2023 Community Survey.

Australian Sensitive Data Interest Group Meeting: 17-May

We are pleased to announce Meeting 24 of the Australian Sensitive Data Interest Group (AUSDIG). AUSDIG provides an opportunity for anyone interested to discuss the challenges and strategies for managing this type of data. See the Australian Sensitive Data Interest Group Webpage at https://sites.google.com/ardc.edu.au/sensitive-data-cop/home.

Meeting 24: Data classification – the first step in simplifying sensitive data management.
Date & Time: Wed, 17 May 2023 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM AWST
Place: online.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/aus-sensitive-data-ig-classifying-sensitive-data-tickets-626694469027.

Next Carpentries Community Call: 18-May

The next AU-NZ Carpentries Community Call is scheduled for Thursday, 18 May 2pm NZST, 10am Perth, 12pm Sydney. Vini Salazar, University of Melbourne and Community Lead for Carpentries Maintainers, will be talking about what it’s like to be a lesson maintainer, what’s involved, and how to join the community. To register: https://hackmd.io/DTLSZIs6TiGyzdoWizZ6Bw.

These events aim to bring together, online, Carpentries community members in Australia and New Zealand. The last event was held on 18-April, which dealt with how to arrange your first Carpentries Workshop. A report can be seen at: https://ardc.edu.au/article/preparing-for-your-first-workshop-a-recap-of-the-first-au-nz-carpentries-community-call/.

Research Software Developers Forum: 18-May

Don’t forget the Queensland Research Software Developers Forum on May 18th at the University of Queensland’s Climate Change Institute. This event is co-hosted by the ARDC and QCIF and it's free, but you need to have registered by May 12th. The Queensland Research Software Developers Forum will provide a platform for research software developers to network with their peers, share ideas and best practices, and help develop a strong local community of practice.

For more information follow this event page: https://rse-aunz.github.io/2023/04/03/RSdevelopersForumQLD.html.

Skills Sharpening Course – Getting started with HPC at NCI using PBSPro: 18-May

Sign up now for a training course on Thursday 18 May designed to give novice high-performance computing users a hands-on introduction to running software on HPC infrastructure. The course is perfect for anyone aiming to start using HPC more prominently as part of their research.

Register for this free online course on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/getting-started-with-hpc-using-pbs-pro-at-nci-online-registration-559968249107.

HIP Workshop: 16 to 19-May

The Heterogeneous Interface for Portability (HIP) provides a programming framework for harnessing the compute capabilities of multicore processors such as the MI250X GPU’s on Setonix. In this course delivered by Pawsey we focus on the essentials of developing HIP applications with a focus on supercomputing.

See: https://pawsey.org.au/event/hip-workshop/.

Unearthing Research Software Report EOI: by 19-May

ARDC is seeking expressions of interest to gather evidence and deliver a report on new research software.

This is a component in the ARDC’s project to address the National Agenda for Research Software (https://ardc.edu.au/project/research-software-agenda-for-australia/), which provides a framework for working towards better recognition of research software. The framework aims to tackle 3 challenges:

making research software more visible;
shaping new software for the broadest applicable audiences;
sustaining existing valuable research software.

We wish to commission a report on shaping software for the broadest appropriate reuse. Submissions must be received before 12 noon (AEST), Friday 19 May 2023.

See: https://ardc.edu.au/news-and-events/news/unearthing-research-software-report-activity/.

CloudStor Decommission Clinics: next one 23-May

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 23 May 2023 at 1 pm AEST.

Find out more or register at https://www.aarnet.edu.au/cloudstor-decommission-clinics.

Setonix Phase 2 Migration Training: Modules 1 and 2: 23-May

To support your transition to using the new Setonix GPUs, Pawsey is providing training/workshops and AMAs (Ask. Me. Anything.).

This training will be conducted virtually. It will cover:
Module 1: (30 minutes): Using GPUs on Setonix.
Module 2: (90 minutes) Installing and Developing GPU Software on Setonix (45 minutes of training followed by a 45-minute hands-on session).

To ensure a smooth transition to Setonix, we strongly recommend engaging with the training sessions, materials and documentation. Date(s): 23-May and TBA.

See: https://pawsey.org.au/event/setonix-phase-2-migration-training-modules-1-and-2-conduct-2/.

Pint of Science Festival: 22 to 24-May

Pint of Science Australia delivers science engagement through a national festival that builds the Australian public’s appreciation of science, contributes positively to combat inequity and negative stereotypes within the Australian science sector, establishes and supports cross-discipline collaborations, and celebrates and champions excellence in the Australian science and science engagement sectors.

The festival takes place this year from 22 - 24 of May 2023. See https://pintofscience.com.au/.

If you would like to get involved as either volunteer or speaker, or if you have any questions, get in touch at https://pintofscience.com.au/contact/.

Setonix Phase 2 Migration AMA (Ask. Me. Anything.): 24-May

To support your transition to using Setonix GPUs, Pawsey is providing training as well as follow-up Ask. Me. Anything. (AMA) sessions.

Bring your migration questions, and talk directly to Pawsey specialists. Join one or more sessions! Date(s): 24-May and TBA.

To ensure a smooth transition to Setonix, we strongly recommend engaging with the training recordings, materials and documentation.

See: https://pawsey.org.au/event/setonix-phase-2-migration-ama-ask-me-anything-conduct-2/.

eResearch-Australasia Abstracts due: 25-May

Call for abstracts now open for the eResearch Australasia Conference (Brisbane 16-20 Oct).

The eResearch Australasia Conference provides an exciting opportunity for delegates to engage, connect and share their ideas and exemplars concerning new information-centric research capabilities, and how ICT technologies can help researchers to collaborate, collect, manage, share, process, analyse, find, understand and reuse information.

We warmly invite you to submit an abstract for a presentation, BoF, poster, lightning talk, or pre/post conference workshop via https://conference.eresearch.edu.au/home/2023-call-for-abstracts/.

Abstracts close 25 May! Please help us spread the word by sharing this with your colleagues.

Survival C/C++ for HIP and OpenCL: 8-Jun

The C++ programming language and its C subset is used extensively in research environments. In particular it is the language utilised in the parallel programming frameworks CUDA, HIP, and OpenCL.

This Pawsey workshop is designed to equip participants with “Survival C++”, an understanding of the basic syntax, how information is encoded in binary format, and how to compile and debug C++ software.

See: https://pawsey.org.au/event/survival-c-c-refresher/.

Pawsey Internships: Call for Projects: by 9-Jun

The call for 2023/2024 projects for Pawsey’s 10-week internship program is now open – we are seeking strategic supercompute, cloud compute, data, and visualisation projects.

This annual Program pays Interns, using a co-funding model, with Projects / Researchers expected to partly pay for their project.

Projects will have access to allocations on Pawsey infrastructure, and their Project Interns will have access to extensive training and will be coached by Mentors, who work in parallel with Project Supervisors for the success of the student and the project.

For more information and submit an application (between 15-May and 9-Jun): https://pawsey.org.au/supercomputing/training/summer-internships/.

AeRO Forum: eResearch and AI: 13-Jun

You are invited to participate in a Q&A style panel session to discuss “eResearch and Artificial Intelligence”. The Forum will be held on 13th June in Canberra.

The annual AeRO National Forum is a one day event, which attracts senior staff from its members as well as eResearch leads from across the sector.

Join sector leaders to openly discuss important issues for Australasian eResearch via two Q&A style panel discussions. The first panel will focus on AI and ML in eResearch, and the second related to the Research Data Culture Conversation (RDCC), followed by the opportunity to network with colleagues from Australia and NZ.

For more information and to register: https://aero.edu.au/forum-2023/.

Upcoming AI and HPC Workshops from NCI: 13-Jun

NCI is offering three workshops on HPC and AI ahead of the ALCS2023 symposium. Taking place in Canberra on 13 June, ALCS attendees and other researchers are invited to attend the Introduction to Python for HPC, AI/ML Applications on Gadi – Astronomy and AI/ML Applications on Gadi – Computational Biology workshops. These sessions will introduce researchers to fundamental skills for using HPC in their scientific research, whether through scaling up Python codes for supercomputing, or through the application of modern AI and ML techniques to the Astronomy and Computational Biology disciplines

Find out more about the workshops on the NCI website here: https://opus.nci.org.au/display/ALCS/Training+Sessions.

ALCS 2023 Canberra: 14 to 16-Jun

We are looking forward to some fascinating plenary talks from international computational science leaders in the fields of HPC, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Australasian Leadership Computing Symposium in Canberra on 14-16 June.

This will be a unique opportunity to hear from leading scientists including Prof Lisa Kewley, Director of the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard & Smithsonian, and Prof Rick Stevens, Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences at the Argonne National Laboratory.

Find the details here: https://bit.ly/ALCS23.

OpenCL Workshop: June 21, 22, 28-29

Supercomputers make use of accelerators from a variety of different hardware vendors, using devices such as multi-core CPU’s, GPU’s and even FPGA’s. OpenCL is a way for your HPC application to make effective use of heterogeneous computing devices, and to avoid code refactoring for new HPC infrastructure.

Join Pawsey experts as we conduct a four-day workshop to explore, debug, and optimise OpenCL applications.

Note this course is spread over two weeks:

Part 1 (two days): 21-22 June 2023
Part 2 (two days): 28-29 June 2023

See: https://pawsey.org.au/event/opencl-workshop/.

Galaxy Community Conference GCC2023 coming to Australia: 10-Jul

For the first time ever the Galaxy Community Conference is coming to Australia, from 10 - 16 July 2023 in Brisbane. See https://galaxyproject.org/events/gcc2023/ for more details.

Galaxy Australia (https://usegalaxy.org.au/) is one of the three global pillars of an active and energetic community of software developers, bioinformaticians and life scientists that work hard to deliver Galaxy to all researchers worldwide.

If you are a data scientist, software engineer, or an educator working in data intensive science you should consider attending GCC2023, even if you are not (yet) using Galaxy.

EarlyBird registration closed on 12 May.

AeRO Jobs Board Rebooted

AeRO is rebooting the National eResearch Jobs Board at https://aero.edu.au/jobs/. This is a free service that we offer to the eResearch community and in the past we have advertised an average of 30-40 jobs each month.

It’s looking a little sparse at the moment, so please reach out to Loretta Davis directly (at loretta@aero.edu.au) if you have any current or upcoming vacancies that you would like to share with the broader eResearch community.

Biosecurity Platform Launched

A new platform, launched on 10 May, will play a transformative role in protecting Australia from the arrival of invasive species that threaten the economy and the environment.

Biosecurity Commons is a ground-breaking platform will change how we analyse and respond to biosecurity threats such as plant pests, weeds or diseases arriving with air and sea cargo, passengers or mailed parcels.

It can provide information about where to look for a disease or pest, where it might spread to, what impacts it might cause, how long it will take to eradicate, and when a region is free from it.

Find out more: https://www.biosecuritycommons.org.au/media-release-ground-breaking-biosecurity-project-will-help-protect-australia-from-harmful-invasive-species/.

NCI’s Vizlab Helps Communicate Geophysics Breakthroughs to the World

When researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) recently published their major discovery of an innermost inner core at the centre of the Earth, the NCI Vizlab was there to help create scientific visualisations, highlighted in leading media outlets around the world including the New York Times.

Read more at https://bit.ly/NCIs_Vizlab_helping_geophysics.

NCI Julia User Workshop Expression of Interest

The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) is planning with the ANU School of Computing and prominent Julia developers from the US to offer a Julia User Workshop in Canberra for the Australian Julia community. The workshop is designed to offer in-depth programming guidance, provide advice to your burning Julia-related queries, foster connections within the Australian Julia user community and offer insights into future support for Julia.

To ensure that this event is tailored to your needs and interests, we kindly ask that you fill out this Expression of Interest (EOI) form: https://bit.ly/JuliaEOI_2023.

WHPC+ AusNZ - 2023 Community Survey

As part of the global Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) community, the WHPC+ AusNZ Chapter aims to better support Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) practices in HPC and eResearch sectors across Australia, New Zealand, and other parts of the Asia / Oceanic region.

In 2021, we ran a survey to prioritise our Chapter's activities. Today we’re checking in again with Australasia’s HPC & eResearch communities - where to next?

Please share widely!

Survey here: http://ow.ly/ieJv50OiVLJ.

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