Prof C. Paul Bonnington

From the article “UC San Diego Undergrads Embark on Summer of International Collaborative Science”

The largest group ever of UC San Diego undergraduates in the Pacific Rim Undergraduate Experiences (PRIME) program — 33 — has embarked on a nine-week summer adventure: working as researchers in laboratories across the Pacific Rim and India. They left for their destinations last week.

Five of the PRIME participants have arrived at Monash to work under the mentorship of Monash e-Research Centre Science Director Prof David Abramson.

From The Australian Higher Education:

THEY call it the “data deluge”.

The next five years will produce more research data than has been produced in all of previous human history, presenting researchers with daunting discovery challenges.

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Dr Wilkinson made the comments with the announcement that Monash, the CSIRO and the Australian National University would host a $20million service aimed at better managing the data deluge generated by years of research and advances in technology.

Full Article: Interview with Ross Wilkinson, executive director of the Monash University-based Australian National Data Service.

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Senior/Software Specialist, eResearch

Full details: http://cerebus.sss.monash.edu.au/employ/job.asp?Refnumber=P099798

Monash University is looking for a suitably qualified person to play a key role in supporting the university’s central High Performance Computing services, including direct end-user support of high-end research computing users and custom software development. Two 900 core HPC systems are currently being commissioned at Monash, which also has a variety of smaller faculty-based systems. Further information about Monash HPC is available at: http://www.monash.edu/eresearch/services/mcg/ and http://www.monash.edu/eresearch

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International Science Grid this Week (iSGTW) have a feature article that shares information on up-and-coming solutions for expressing, managing, and executing “megajobs”.

Monash e-Research Centre Associate Director Prof David Abramson talks about his Nimrod family of tools that provides sophisticated methods to search for good solutions as opposed to all solutions.

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http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch/