e-Research for the Structural Sciences Workshop
- NCRIS 5.3 and 5.16 Overlap Workshop
Background
The Australian Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) has a roadmap to maintain a competitive international research profile through promotion of advanced computing access, and leading data analysis and data management practices. This will be partially funded through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
An initial MMSN stakeholders brief was prepared and submitted in December 2005. The following workshop was convened as a further step toward developing and presenting a unified view of the needs, impact and utility of Collaborative Approaches (NCRIS 5.16) to the various Structural Characterisation (NCRIS 5.3 - see also the NCRIS Characterisation Website) communities.
A consensus of desires and recommendations follow, thereafter.
Monday July 3rd & Tuesday 4th 2006
Program and Presentations
| Monday Morning (9:00am) | |
| 9:00 Introduction | |
9:15 Peter Turner: (workshop convenor)  | The Molecular and Materials Structure Network (MMSN). Presentation |
| 9:30 Rhys Francis: (NCRIS 5.16 Facilitator and Manager of the APAC Grid Program)   | Some background into NCRIS 5.16 and the
Australian Partnership
for Advanced Computing (APAC) APAC and NCRIS 5.16 Presentations |
10:00 Jane Hunter: (University of Queensland)  |
NCRIS 5.3 - 5.16 Planning Progress Presentation. |
10:15 Kerstin Kleese van Dam: (Daresbury Laboratory)  | The
Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) e-Research Centre e-Science for Science Presentation |
| 10:45 Tea and Coffee (15 min) | |
11:00 Shoaib Sufi:   |
Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) e-Research Centre Scientific Metadata, Data Portal & Ontologies Presentation |
11:30 Bill Pulford:   | The
DIAMOND Light Source
Data Acquisition, Remote Access and e-Research Presentation |
12:15 Paul Davis:
  |
Grid and Next Generation Network (GrangeNet) National Data Architecture and Virtual Beamlines, e-Research, VeRSI Presentation |
| 12:45 Lunch (45 min) | |
1:30 Richard Farnsworth:   |
Australian Synchrotron Perspectives - Grid enabling the Facility Presentation |
2:00 Ian Atkinson: (James Cook University)  | The
Dataset Acquisition, Accessibility & Annotation e-Research Technology (DART) Project - Remote Access Instruments and Sensors Presentation and crystal data collection movie (50Mb) |
2:30 John Drennan: (University of Queensland)  | Nanostructural Analysis Network Organisation (NANO)
Data Management & Microscopy and Microanalysis Presentation |
3:00 Allan Jones / Peter Hines: (University of Sydney)
  and  | Nanostructural Analysis Network Organisation (NANO)
- an e-Science network Presentation |
| 3:30 Tea & coffee (15 min) | |
3:45 Nick Hauser:   | The Bragg Institute
OPAL perspectives Presentation |
4:15 Michael James/Andrew Struder:    |
ANSTO simulations Michael and Andrew's presentations. |
4:45 Mike McKerns:   |
Distributed Data analyse for Neutron Scattering Experiments (DANSE) Presentation |
5:15 Steve Quenette:   | Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
Pyre for Distributed Computing Presentation |
5:30 Mark Prior:   | Australia's Academic and Research Network (AARNet)
R & E Networking and Potential Developments Presentation |
| 6:00 Tea & coffee (30 min) | |
6:30 Kenneth Shankland:   |
ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
An overview of e-Science at ISIS Presentation |
6:45 Damian Flannery:   | ISIS Data management
ICAT A Facility Metadata Catalogue Presentation |
| 7:00 Kenneth Shankland: | ISIS
ISIS CATalogues (ICAT) and the GridMP System for distributed Computing Presentation |
| 7:30 session adjourned | |
| Tuesday Morning (9:00am) | |
9:00 Steve Miller:   | The Spallation Neutron Source at
Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL Data management Presentation |
10:00 Colin MacRae:   |
CSIRO Minerals
MicrobeamLab Telepresence and Remote Access Presentation |
| 10:20 Geoffery Ericksson:
(Advanced Computational Modelling Centre at UQ)   | The Australian Imaging Consortium:
NMR and PET Imaging Perspectives Presentation |
| 10:40 Tea & coffee (20 min) | |
11:00 Abel Lin:   |
National Center for Microscopy and Imaging research (NCMIR) The
Telescience(TM) Project Presentation |
11:20 Tomas Molina:   |
National Center for Microscopy and Imaging research (NCMIR) The
Teleinstrumentation Presentation |
11:40 Joy Sargis:   |
Cell Centered Database Group Presentation |
| 12:00 Lunch (40 min) | |
12:40 Adil Hasan:   |
CCLRC SRB services Presentation |
1:00 Laurent Lerusse:   |
CCLRC NeXus and Data and Metadata Capture Presentation |
1:20 Daniel Hanlon:   |
CCLRC Compute Grids Presentation |
| 1:40 Formalities conclude | |
| 1:40 Rhys Francis: (NCRIS 5.16 Facilitator) | Initial Observations and Perceived Needs of the
Characterisation (NCRIS 5.3) Community arising from this workshop.
Presentation |
| 2:00 Discussion | A post NCRIS_5.3-5.16 workshop discussion report and concomitant recommendations document, giving the MMSN perspective. |
| 5:30 Close |
