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Foreword - Professor Paul Roe, Chair eResearch Working Party
 Future research requires the magnification and aggregation of human intellectual effort through eResearch. eResearch promises to drive next generation research by leveraging ICT to support the whole research process through data collection, analysis, and visualisation; researcher collaboration and research publication.
Increasingly research is collecting, generating and aggregating large volumes of data which cannot be analysed manually; the solution is smart automated analysis - eResearch. Finally there is a growing trend to solving society's problems through large scale collaborative research, for example using integrative modelling and collaboration between research teams spread across the world; once again eResearch is the solution.
eResearch is particularly important to QUT because it underpins QUT's real world research, especially its flagship research institutes. QUT already leads in many eResearch areas including its use and high uptake of ePrints to digitally publish research papers, projects and outreach in grid computing portals and workflows, and its work in legal protocols for copyright management. This site is devoted to eResearch at QUT. E-mail Paul.
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eResearch Strengths @ QUT
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Examples of Current eResearch Projects
| Project Title |
Lead Investigator |
Contact |
| QUT/Microsoft eResearch Laboratory |
Paul Roe |
(07) 3138 9323 |
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Peter Croll |
(07) 3138 9518 |
| E-Services for Comparative Studies in Molecular Biology |
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James Hogan |
(07) 3138 9328 |
| HP-WebS: High Performance Web Services for eScience |
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Paul Roe |
(07) 3138 9323 |
| Legal Protocols for Copyright Management: Facilitating Open Access to Research at the National and International Levels |
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Brian Fitzgerald |
(07) 3138 2057 |
| Legal Framework for eResearch |
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Brian Fitzgerald |
(07) 3138 2057 |
| E-Science Agenda SuperComputer Computational Engine Upgrade |
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Tony Pettitt |
(07) 3138 2309 |
| Adoption of E-business Systems in the Australian Rail Industry |
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Luis Ferreira |
(07) 3138 1542 |
| Mapping Trusted Systems Technologies to E-Security Requirements |
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Bill Caelli |
(07) 3138 2752 |
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Peter Croll |
(07) 3138 9518 |
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Rod Wissler |
(07) 3138 1303 |
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eResearch Infrastructure and Services
The High Performance Computing (HPC) systems currently available at QUT include:
- SGI Origin 3000 consisting of 128 processors (combination of R14000 and R14000A MIPS processors), 90 Gbytes memory, 2.5Tbytes Fibre Channel disk and a Hewlett Packard MSL6030 tape library.
- IBM eServer Cluster 1350 Cluster consisting of a single head node (IBM eServer xSeries 346 server with dual Intel EM64T CPUs and 4 Gbytes memory) and ten, dual processor compute nodes (IBM eServer e326 server with dual AMD Opteron CPUs and 4 Gbytes memory apiece).
High Performance Computing (HPC), Grid Computing Capabilities and ePrints Repository
QUT has delivered a supercomputing, or high performance computing capability to its researchers for more than ten years. The service is delivered by the High Performance Computing and Research Support Group who work closely with researchers and, in some cases, are members of the research team. The group also actively participates in the national HPC program (the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing or APAC) and Queensland's state-based HPC consortium, the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF). The advanced computing and HPC capabilities include:
- High Performance Computing (HPC)
HPC and visualisation systems; advanced software systems for large-scale scientific and engineering simulations and visualisations.
- Grid enabled technologies and infrastructure
Dedicated grid development program since 2002 including the development of Globus based computational cluster, Storage Resource Broker (SRB) based data grid, GridSphere based grid portals and Access Grid facilities. For the past two years, members of the HPC group have led and participated in the APAC Grid Program ‘User Interface and Visualization Infrastructure'. QUT is also a foundation member of the Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Facility (QPSF).
- Support and Outreach skills
Provision of technology and research support for over 10 years with developed support expertise in engineering, science, health, creative industries, visualisation, data modeling and analysis; HPC and eResearch out research program through lead role in APAC's Education, Outreach and Training (EOT) program; Significant use and support of Access Grid including research application in non-traditional areas such as Creative Industries.
- High quality network access through high capacity bandwidth
QUT hosts one of the two Queensland Points of Presence (POP) for Australia 's next generation research network AARNET3 allowing QUT direct access to the 10Gb/s national backbone.
- ePrints Digital Repository - Data storage management, access, discovery and curation
ePrints institutional digital repository – an open access archive of research literature with world leading deposition rates; leader in legal protocols of managing copyright issues in an open access environment through the OAKLAW project.
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QUT and eResearch Cooperative (or Consortial) Arrangements
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