Austin
April 25-29, 2016

Event Details

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Cloud Infrastructure to Help Researchers Build 21st Century Microscopes

Leveraging the NeCTAR Research Cloud (a national IaaS for research), Monash University is building innovative digital environments for data-oriented research. This work acknowledges the 21st Century Microscope as a composite instrument - using a digital research fabric to support integrated data storage, processing, analysis and visualisation. The fabric is orchestrated to solve specific problems and driven by researcher-defined workflows. Researchers move their tools to the data.

We will discuss:

  • Mechanisms that we employ to engage new (and critically important) communities, with a particular focus on the biological and medical sciences
  • Pragmatic approaches to architecting and integrating OpenStack for HPC
  • Our experiences with developing HPC middleware that leverages the advantages offered by using a cloud model, and allows us to deploy HPC systems within hours
  • Design approaches and specific tuning to bring a KVM based OpenStack up to scratch for mixed HPC

What can I expect to learn?

We will discuss our learnings, which include:

  • Mechanisms that we employ to engage new (and critically important) communities, with a particular focus on the biological and medical sciences
  • Pragmatic approaches to architecting and integrating OpenStack for HPC
  • Our experiences with developing HPC middleware that leverages the advantages offered by using a cloud model, and allows us to deploy HPC systems within hours
  • Design approaches and specific tuning to bring a KVM based OpenStack up to scratch for general-purpose HPC
Wednesday, April 27, 2:40pm-3:20pm (7:40pm - 8:20pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Beginner
New Zealand eScience Infrastructure
Blair has worked in distributed computing for over a decade; both in research and for research; for institutional and national projects; from applications, through grid & cloud middleware, to full HPC & cloud systems design, implementation, and operations.   Originally from Christchurch, Blair recently returned to NZ to take up the reigns of Solutions Manager of the New Zealand... FULL PROFILE
Deputy Director - Monash eResearch Centre
Steve Quenette is the Deputy Director of the Monash eResearch Centre, at Monash University. He was recruited to provide vision and operational know-how for business-led digital innovation. The Monash eResearch programme now systemically underpins the University's digitally fuelled research. He has attracted funding for substantive national digital transformation projects. These projects... FULL PROFILE