Current e-RESEARCH Projects:-

• Monash Campus Grid Project:- Provide support for the integration of the Monash Sun Grid to a range of faculty Clusters, including the deployment of the VPAC cluster known as "Brecca" at Monash University.
• Large Research Data Store (LaRDS):- Facilitating the establishment of a distributed multi PetaByte Data Store spanning the Monash Data Centres.
• Deploying Storage Resource Broker 'srb':- Exploring the deployment of the SDSC Storage Resource Broker and possibly the move to iRODS over the next 6 months.
• Rolling out an HSM Service for Researchers:- Assisting with the deployment of 'DMF' in the e-Research space operating on a pair of SGI A450's with IS4000 SAN attached disk caches.
• CPU cycle Harvesting & CONDOR Project:- Exploring the opportunity to deploy unused CPU cycles on desktops and laboratory computers to assist provide additional compute resources to the Monash Research Community.
• DEST funded Projects:- Proactively contributing to the ARCHER and the NCRIS Australian National Data Service (ANDS) projects, as well as assisting on a range of projects that Monash is undertaking in the Research space from supporting LIEF grants.
• Virtualization of Server Platforms:- Collaborating with the Shared Systems Team in the area of provisioning Virtual Server Environments for Research Applications.
• Victorian e-Research Strategic Initiative (VeRSI):- Part of a Monash, Melbourne, LaTrobe and DPI initiative to provision a distributed data store to facilitate closer collaboration between the institutuonal research groups.
• Australian Synchrotron:- Proactively engaging with Richard Farnsworth, from the Synchrotron Build team to explore opportunities to provide a large Petabyte offsite data store for Monash and other institution Synchrotron Researchers.
• Opal Reactor at Lucas Heights:- Liaise with George Collins and Nick Hauser in the areas of data management, and the possibility of addressing the requirements of Researchers who may be using both Neutron Sources and X-ray's to probe the structure of materials, some standards in the choice of data formats e.g. NeXuS will assist facilitate the exchange of data sets.