RCC HPCs aid evolutionary discovery to rewrite textbooks
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A significant University of Queensland evolutionary discovery published in Nature had the helping hand of the Research Computing Centre’s high-performance computers.
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Researchers in the Degnan Marine Genomics Labs used HPCs Awoonga and FlashLite in their work for the Nature paper, published in June this year. The paper upends biologists’ century-old understanding of the evolutionary history of animals.
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RCC Support Desk holiday hours
Please note that the RCC Support Desk will be closed from 5pm, Friday, 20 December 2019 until 9am, Monday, 6 January 2020. We'll respond to your request once we return from the holiday shutdown period.
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RCC in 2019: A year in review
RCC this year has been proud to introduce a handful of major research computing infrastructure projects to the UQ community. We’ve been thrilled to receive a few awards this year too. Read more
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RCC reports from SC19
RCC CTO Jake Carroll presents his highlights and the IT industry trends from the largest international supercomputing conference, SC19, held 17–22 November in Denver, Colorado, USA. He attended alongside RCC Director Prof. David Abramson (pictured). Read more
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QASMT students at SC19
UQ and RCC sponsored four Queensland Academy for Science, Mathematics and Technology students to attend SC19 in Colorado this year. Read the students’ reflections on their experience at the world’s largest supercomputing conference. Read more
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UQ students heading to USA for NCSA internship
RCC has sponsored two UQ undergraduate students to undertake research internships with the US National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) over the Australian summer break. Read more
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RCC's 2019 student projects
Want to easily find locations mentioned in historic news articles? Or identify common themes and issues in the comment sections of modern online news stories? These goals were part of two out of the 11 projects UQ students worked on this year with RCC supervision. Read more
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Save the date: Winter School 2020
Next year's Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology will be held 6–10 July 2020 at UQ St Lucia. Themes include systems biology, bioinformatics, plant genomics and modelling, and advanced data visualisation. Read more
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RCC's Dr Nick Hamilton at national geometry workshop
RCC eResearch Analyst Dr Nick Hamilton was a featured speaker at a geometry workshop in Adelaide this week in honour of Australian mathematician Prof. Tim Penttila. Read more
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UQ's new R user group
A monthly R user group meeting will start at UQ on Monday, 20 January, 3pm–5pm. The aim is to bring the UQ R community together to share ideas, and provide a collaborative problem-solving space for new and experienced users. Read more
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Research Data Alliance's plenary meeting in Australia
Early-bird registration is now available for the RDA 15th Plenary Meeting in Melbourne, 18–20 March 2020. The call for posters is open until 20 January, and the call for co-located events closes 15 January. Read more
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Dr Nick’s Image Clinic to the rescue
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Two research projects have recently benefited from RCC eResearch Analyst Dr Nick Hamilton’s weekly Image Clinic at UQ.
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Dr Nick Hamilton created a hardware camera setup for UQ's Chenoweth Lab for imaging fruit flies at high resolution. (Image: Dr Nick Hamilton, RCC/IMB).
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Nick helped PhD student Vikram Narayan, who works in Deputy Associate Dean of Science Professor Steve Chenoweth’s lab, automate a workflow that would have previously taken hours and hours of manual labour.
Nick has also helped early-career researchers Ryan Vandenberg Brady and Tish Essebier, who work in Dr Emma Gordon's Vessel Dynamics Lab at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB). Nick created a pipeline that “chopped up” their cell images into small regions and then automatically classified each of the regions using machine deep learning methods
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The last UQ Hacky Hour for 2019 was held on Tuesday, 3 December, with 18 attendees. In total this year, the Hacky Hour team, including RCC staff, ran 40 Hacky Hours and had 628 attendees across the year. Pictured above, RCC HPC Manager Dr David Green (left) helped a researcher at the December Hacky Hour.
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 Cyber security at UQ
New cyber security
website launched
A cyber security website has been launched to increase the availability of information on cyber security—both general and UQ-specific.
Find comprehensive yet understandable content on how to recognise cyber security threats, protect yourself from these threats and stay cyber secure, as well as links to report cyber security incidents.
Visit the website
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