Prof C. Paul Bonnington

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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The Monash e-Research Centre unveiled a new 40 megapixel OptiPortal — a tiled LCD wall that displays complete microscope images at a high resolution.

The screen, the result of an ARC collaborative grant between Monash and Leica Microsystems, allows the user to focus on details at maximum resolution while also allowing them to view the entire image.

Separate and related images can be shown on all or on some screens, or a single image can be displayed across the entire OptiPortal wall.

“A growing world-wide ‘OptiPortal collaboratory’ could revolutionise cancer research by connecting experts from across the world, enabling them to work together on a single project,” Professor Bonnington said.

Visiting Professor Larry Smarr, founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, San Diego, said high-performance internet connectivity in Australia was necessary to ensure a robust public research sector.

(From Multimedia Victoria website)

Media release - 1 October 2008

The Brumby Government is investing $1.45 million toward a $3 million High Performance Computing Facility at the Australian Synchrotron in Clayton.

Innovation Minister Gavin Jennings told today’s eResearch Australasia 2008 Conference that the funding will take medical imaging in Victoria to the next level.

“Our $1.45 million investment will be used to develop the high performance computing facility to support imaging beamlines at the Synchrotron along with funding from the Australian Synchrotron, the CSIRO, Monash University and the Victorian Partnership for Advance Computing (VPAC),” Mr Jennings said.
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