Peter Gale, ITD

Research Week – February 2013

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UTS eResearch IT STRATEGY

THEN

Localised

Dispersed

Devolved

Isolated

Consolidated IT infrastructure

CPU pool

HPC

Storage Capacity

Shared services via AAF

National IT infrastructure

eResearch support staff

Infrastructure

Policies and procedures

NOW

Now

eResearch

Infrastructure

Storage

Compute

Identity / Collaboration

Tools / Data Management

Network

Policy

• UTS On-site storagewith (300TB and growing)

• OxygenCloud Encrypted storage cloud (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iP*, web) http://eresearch.uts.edu.au/oxygencloud/

• Cloudstor file exchange

• ARCS National Data Grid storage available to all researchers (via AAF)

• RDSI – data sets of national significance (100PB)

Storage options

• UTS Blade farm of VM servers for Research (1.5TB RAM, 256 cores, 10Gbps fibre connection)

• UTS HPC - 280 cores + 4noe 64 core Tesla GPU (same management as McLaren cluster at Intersect)

• McLaren HPC cluster (Intersect)

• NeCTAR research cloud (self-serve)

• NCI – 58,000 cores (Canberra)

Compute options

ref;: G.Gardiner

• The Australian Access Federation

• Researchers use their home institution Login to access a growing number of participating services and resources (currently 34 services across ANZ)

AAF – Federated Identity

• ARCS collaboration services

• Access Grid (Building 1 and Building 10)

• Data Grid – (now the RDSI Data Grid)

• 4x5 Optiportals Buildings 4 & 10

• OxygenCloud – in-house shared, encrypted cloud storage

• sakai collaboration space

• Atlassian Confluence

• AAF IdP servers

Collaboration

• AARNET

• eduroam

• Internal UTS network well connected (10Gb/s)

• Special cases (eg sensor tower)

Network

• DC18 Data Capture and MS22 Metadata Store Projects • MS22 - Develop a Research Data Catalogue

• management, administration

• re-use of research datasets

• DC18 - Description of datasets by automated capture and manual data entry

• Harvest of metadata feeds

• initially by ANDS but potentially by other aggregation and discovery services

• Preservation and curation of research data

ANDS Projects – Research Data Catalogue

What is new?

At UTS External to UTS

Federated Identity Management

AAF – Australian Access Federation

AAF

Storage UTS SAN – 300TB Oxygencloud

ARCS Fabric RDSI NeCTAR Cloudstor

Compute VM farm HPC

NeCTAR NCI

Collaboration AAF OxygenCloud Access Grids OptiPortals

AAF Cloudstor EVO/SeeVogh

Tools OptiPortal Confluence Sakai

WOMBAT

Network 10Gb AARNET Telstra

Data Management DC18 MS22 (RedBox/Mint)

ANDS

Training Google Refine HPC (introduction and advanced) - Intersect HPC – NCI

Who are the UTS eResearch Support Team?

Peter Gale - ITD

Gabrielle Gardiner - Library

Pascal Grosvenor - ITD

Mike Lake - ITD

Elizabeth Litting - Library

Ashley England - Library

Michael Lynch - ITD

Paul Nguyen - ITD

Luc Small - Intersect

Sharyn Wise - ITD

Email: eresearch-it@uts.edu.au

Phone: Ext. 4000