Chemistry workflow

This project aims ease access to advanced computing systems for the computational molecular science community through portal development. The portal includes a uniform web-based interface to support input file preparation, remote job submission and monitoring (with optimisation of runtime parameters such as memory and disk usage), and post-processing analysis and visualisation.

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Experimental High Energy Physics

This project is deploying a common data grid infrastructure to enhance the international competitiveness of Australian physicists participating in two international frontier experiments in High Energy Physics: the Belle experiment at the KEK laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan; and the ATLAS experiment at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.

• Project Statement
• Experimental Partical Physics at University of Melbourne

Genome Annotation

Bioinformatics is rapidly developing into a highly data and compute intensive research domain driven by recent advances in data gathering experimental techniques, comparative genomic analysis, proteomic data analysis, phylogenetics and molecular evolution studies, protein modelling, complex systems modelling, and plant breeding.

This project aims to establish a Grid-enabled Blast system across the APAC partners; install a local Ensembl database and the relevant compute/data intensive tools and develop a distributed Genome Annotation System using the Rice Genome as a model.

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Geoscience workflow

This project acts as a connection point between the development of the APAC Grid and the larger Australian geoscience communities such as the Solid Earth and Environmental Sciences Grid (SEE Grid), the pmd*CRC and ACcESS MNRF. As a result, APAC Grid components and services of interest to the geoscience community will have interfaces that match the standards developed by the community and exhibit conceptual integrity and semantics understood by the geoscience community.

• Project Statement
• For details see Projects at the SEEgrid Web Site

Gravitational wave research

This project is helping the Australian Consortium for Interferometric Gravitational-wave Analysis (ACIGA) to establish a National Gravitational Wave Research Grid which to enhance the collection and analysis of data within Australia, the sharing of this data with international collaborators, and the enhancement of data access and retrieval from these collaborators. The data obtained from interferometric detectors is the prime source of detection of gravity wave events, whilst environmental data is used to calibrate detector data and enable filtering of false positives and other noise from interferometer output.

• Project Statement
• Australian Consortium for Interferometric Granitational-wave Analysis
• Download a presentation on Gravity Waves

Molecular Docking

This project aims to assist the biotechnology sector in Australia to perform drug-lead exploration in an efficient and inexpensive manner using grid-based methods. Web-based access will be provided to docking applications and a wide variety of chemical databases, as well as tools to assist in the analysis and archival of the screening results. Grid technologies will accelerate the screening of chemical databases, utilising large-scale, wide-area parallel and distributed systems.

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• See the technology used at the GridBus project

Theoretical Astronomy

This project is providing user-level services for job configuration, submission and monitoring using gridsphere portlets for theoretical astrophysics codes. The project is also building grid access to the VO Data Warehouse into the portal.

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• Demonstration portal (login as "guest" with password "oaspete")
• Swinburne grid systems

Theoretical high energy physics

The International Lattice Data Grid (ILDG) is an international collaboration that aims to allow high-energy physicists to publish, locate and access hundreds of Terabytes of data from computationally intensive lattice Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD) simulations. The ILDG project aims to implement an Australian node of the ILDG, to serve lattice QCD data generated by the Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter (CSSM).

• Project Statement
• Special Research Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter

Earth Systems Science workflow

Earth systems science, with its heritage of global collaboration and long tradition of sharing data collected on ground, air and sea events, is well suited to the adoption of grid systems. The project is enabling Australian data sets related to oceans, atmospheres, Antarctica and the climate to be made transparently available to the Australian research and the international research community using grid protocols and standards.

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• Go to the Digital Library Portal
• Download a powerpoint presentation

The Astronomy Data Warehouse

The project is providing efficient, standardised access to key Australian and international astronomical data collections, providing the ability to discover and query archives (via standard web services) and to extract data from those archives.

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• Aus-VO site

Earthbyte

Earth processes over geological timescales cannot be understood outside of a plate tectonic context. This project aims to develop a Palaeo-Geographic Information System called EarthByte. Earthbyte will provide the foundation for an e-geoscience framework for grid-based data access and Earth process modelling by linking geological and geophysical observations to palaeogeographic models for constraining mantle convection and lithospheric deformation.

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Parasitology Grid

This project aims to enable the sharing and remote processing of biological data for the ARC Network for Parasitology. In particular, the project will set up a grid-accessible storage repository at ac3/UTS to store biological data for the Parasitology Network, develop bioinformatics workflows by adapting tools developed in the European myGrid program (in particular Taverna), and assist in the integration of biological databases onto the ac3 cluster.

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• reblast portal

pBlast

pBLAST makes use of sogrid’s self-organizing data management system to take care of both replica management and distributed database syndication. pBLAST provides three interfaces to users. One is connected to the scheduler and provides common BLAST search Web interface. The second is a command console that accepts query and annotation commands. It is mainly used for meta-data and keyword based search and publishing annotations. The third is a Web service API that may receive requests from APAC bioinformatics portal.

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Neutron imaging data management