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Framework for eResearch Adoption - draft report for review

Submitted by julian.carver on Thu, 12/01/2012 - 1:40pm

The Framework for eResearch Adoption draft report is now available for review.

You can download the report as a Word document, or access it as a Google document. 

Comments can be made via email to julian.carver@seradigm.co.nz, by marking up the Word document, by commenting in the Google document, or by adding comments to this blog post.

NZ eResearch Symposium 2012

The 3rd New Zealand eResearch Symposium will be held at Victoria University of Wellington, on Wednesday 4th - Friday 6th July, 2012

Organisers

General Chair: Nick Jones, University of Auckland, NZ eScience Infrastructure
Host Institution: Victoria University of Wellington
Programme Chair: John Hine, Victoria University of Wellington
Sponsorship: Beth Geraghty, NZ eScience Infrastructure 

Supercomputing 2011 - Part Four Education, Training and Outreach

Submitted by stuartcharters on Thu, 24/11/2011 - 9:06am

One of the main reasons for my trip to SC11 was to look at the education program and talk with other national collaborations about how they approach education and training.


 I took part in the Education Program, and also attended Workforce Development Sessions and BOF sessions. I was also able to have discussions with various people about how they are approaching education, training and outreach.

Supercomputing 2011 - Part Three - Nvidia Keynote

Submitted by stuartcharters on Wed, 23/11/2011 - 3:02pm

The keynote of the conference was given by Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia.  Jen-Hsun described how Nvidia was born through the desires of him and others wanting to play 3D games.  Nvidia has had explosive growth in the consumer graphics market since it launched, more recently it has been making inroads into the HPC area with General Purpose GPU computing.  This expansion into HPC stems from their decision to support IEEE floating point numbers when

Supercomputing 2011 - Part Two - Inspiration & the Exhibit Hall

Submitted by stuartcharters on Tue, 15/11/2011 - 8:11pm

SC11 is nothing if not busy!  Far more sessions that you can ever attend, and all of them seem quite interesting (at least from the titles!)

I want to report back on the Education Program so far, and also the Gala opening of the Exhibition Hall.

Education Program first, today has been the highlight of the program for me so far, three sessions in particular stand out for me and I'll share a little about each with you.

Supercomputing 2011 - Part One

Submitted by stuartcharters on Sun, 13/11/2011 - 7:30am

This is the first of a number of blog posts that I'll be making over the next week from Supercomputing 2011.  This is my first time at Supercomputing (the 24th in the series) which this year is being held in Seattle.

I'm here to take part in the Education Program, more about that later, first some stats about the conference.

Summer of eResearch 2011

Closing date for project proposals: 31 August

Researchers, do you need IT support for your research collaborations?

Data sharing, shared databases, analysis services, collaboration...

 

Summer of eResearch (SoeR) provides scholarships and mentoring to software engineering students to work with nationally connected research communities throughout New Zealand on their eResearch needs, focused on providing infrastructure (not research codes).

Some examples of relevant projects could include:

  • accessing and analysing shared datasets and databases that are too large to host on your local desktop, and where there are multiple users from across your national research community who are involved in various aspects of the data analysis
  • building a simple graphical user interface so that your less computing skilled research colleagues can carry out analyses that you are repeatedly doing for them
  • building a web portal to share nationally significant research datasets, and providing basic data access protocols to allow others to build on top of this data

Look at what we did in Summer of eResearch 2010!

Framework for eResearch Adoption takes next steps

Submitted by nick on Tue, 31/05/2011 - 4:41pm

It's with a mind to supporting the careful work being done by our Ministry of Science & Innovation's eResearch programme, and their pointman Julian Carver, that I highlight the excellent next steps Julian is taking in the Framework for eResearch Adoption project.

NZ eResearch Symposium 2011

30/06/2011 08:30
01/07/2011 17:00

Thursday 30 June & Friday 1 July

University of Otago, Dunedin

NZ eResearch Symposium 2011 will be held at The University of Otago, Dunedin on Thursday 30 June – Friday 1 July 2011. Please mark these dates in your calendar and start making arrangements.

Keynotes

We're pleased to confirm the following keynote speakers at NZ eResearch Symposium 2011:

Professor David Abramson

Professor David Abramson

Dr. Ian Foster

Dr. Ian Foster

Assistant Professor Ann Zimmerman

Assistant Professor Ann Zimmerman

Registration

Early Bird registrations are still open for NZ eResearch Symposium 2011.

Registration Type

Early Bird Rate

Full Rate

Full conference registration
(incl dinner and all workshops)

$295

$395

Student registration
(does not include conference dinner)

$100

$150

Early bird registration has been extended until Thursday 9 June 2011.

Please click here to register!

Conference Programme
Click here to view the conference programme and workshop information.