Foreword by Chief Executive Officer Marc Bailey...  

This bumper bulletin arrives just as we publish our 2014 Annual Report, reflecting on a year in which Intersect Australia executed some of its most ambitious projects and experienced its largest-ever revenues and employment. We delivered greater benefits to our members, customers and researchers than ever before, and for the first time ventured outside NSW borders by establishing ongoing member presence in the University of Canberra and in Melbourne in the Australian Catholic University. 

My first 90 days as CEO have begun a time of change, re-engineering and re-imagination as we sharpen our focus on research productivity, diversity and longevity. Our talented team is reshaping our offerings as we respond to member consultation, customer demand, and market forces across Intersect's four principal activities:

• Energy, our human professional services including consultancy and advice on applying information technologies across the research lifecycle, research-focused software applications and eResearch training courses.

• Space, our big data products for research data management and petabyte-scale digital storage solutions.

• Time, our big compute products for research computing platforms, including high performance, cloud and web computing.

• Data, our big analytics services and research platforms for data sciences, especially the national flagship med.data.edu.au medical research data platform.

Our people are keener than ever to be more flexible and engaged to help create Space, warp Time, save Energy and action Data. We're working hard to be your null hypothesis for research technology partnership - the easiest, most natural, most effective way to augment your project to solve research technology challenges.

There has never been a better time to talk to your friendly local eResearch Analyst or any of our management team, so please get in touch to find out how we can accelerate your research.

2016 HPC.Time Grants

We are delighted to announce the 2016 Intersect HPC.Time Resource Allocation Round, a merit-based system through which researchers can gain fully-subsidised access to Intersect high performance computing (HPC) facilities. More than 32 million hours of HPC will be allocated in this round. 
We encourage HPC users who are Intersect members with significant HPC requirements for 2016 (>200 kSU) to apply now to both the Intersect HPC Resource Allocation Round (RAR) and the federal NCMAS scheme in order to maximise chances of securing the compute time they need to support their research. Both schemes have been aligned to avoid duplication and streamline the application process. 

Collaborative petascale data storage solutions for researchers 

• a storage solution to securely transfer, store, manage and share large amounts of active research data?
• a low cost, long-term data storage solution for your completed datasets?
• your own “virtual lab” to put your research software next to your data in a secure hosted cloud environment?

Intersect is now provisioning new storage and compute solutions to help with your research: SpaceShuttle to store and share active data, DeepSpace to archive and preserve data assets and SpaceLab to create your own virtual lab. Learn more about our Space case studies, use cases and brochures here.

As a reminder, Space merit subsidies funded by RDSI have concluded and rebates will cease on 1 January 2016. Please get in touch about questions or information, and talk to us about securing bulk storage discounts.

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