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API based access to HPC.

[Register at: https://api4hpc-techtalk.eventbrite.com.au/]

Science increasingly uses High Performance Computing (HPC) for simulation, computing and various data analyses. Yet, HPC currently needs high level of expertise to make best use of HPC resources. This often leads to slower research, limited by access to those few people with the right expertise, or in some cases having to abandon research because of lack of access to that same expertise.

Application Programming Interface (API) for accessing and manipulating HPC resources makes HPC easier. APIs make HPC (1) more accessible to researchers who are unfamiliar with the HPC environment, and (2) easier for developers to build computing applications/platforms for researchers doing scientific computing. In this month’s Tech Talk, speakers will introduce three different APIs for managing and accessing HPC resources.

Speakers:

  1. Dr. Joseph Antony (Senior High Performance Data Specialist), Dr. Jingbo Wang (Data Collections Manager), National Computational Infrastructure (http://nci.org.au)
    Geospatial Data-as-a-Service: Towards planetary scale real-time analytics

The rapid growth of earth systems, environmental and geophysical datasets poses a challenge to both end-users and infrastructure providers. For infrastructure and data providers, tasks like managing, indexing and storing large collections of geospatial data needs to take into consideration the various use cases by which consumers will want to access and use the data.
Contact: jingbo.wang -at- anu.edu.au, Joseph.Antony -at- anu.edu.au

  1. Dr. David Perry | Compute Integration Specialist | University of Melbourne
    Building web apps for HPC with Agave

Web-based gateways and laboratories can help expand the accessibility of HPC, but much time ends up wasted on integration with the underlying infrastructure. Agave provides a RESTful API that simplifies this process, providing building blocks for combining diverse compute and storage systems. This talk gives an overview of Agave, what it does, and where it is currently being used.
Contact: perry.d -at- unimelb.edu.au

  1. Dr. Chris Hines | Senior HPC Consultant | Monash University
    (Multi-modal Australian ScienceS Imaging and Visualisation Environment)
    The flexible digital microscope: Interoperability between scientific computing services

Computing has a learning curve, and the higher the computational or data requirements of your researcher the steeper the learning curve. Various communities have attempted to reduce the learning curve by building vertically integrated services combining data resources and computational resources behind simple applications. In this talk I'll discuss how users can mix and match all the services they have available without having to rely on vertical integration by an e-Research service provider or become a computing expert.
Contact: chris.hines -at- monash.edu

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Venues

Live meeting hubs in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart and Brisbane.

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For catering purposes and getting remote live access, please register now at Eventbrite (https://api4hpc-techtalk.eventbrite.com.au). Slides will be here at Meetup after the event.

-------------------------------Registration and Venues ---------------------------

For catering purposes and getting remote access, please register now at Eventbrite (https://api4hpc-techtalk.eventbrite.com.au).

The talks will take about an hour (3:00pm-4:00pm AEST), followed by face-to-face networking and discussion at the hub locations as listed below (4:00pm-5:00pm). The local face-to-face networking and activities are facilitated by our wonderful local organisers.

Venues:
You are encouraged to go to your local hub (listed below) to participate. For those who aren't able to attend at any of the hubs, we will email you the virtual meeting ID after you register yourself at the Eventbrite.

Adelaide: University of Adelaide: Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide North Terrace Campus (starts 2.30pm ACDT)

Brisbane/Toowoomba:

  1. UQ: Room 505, level 5, Axon Building 47, University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus (starts 2.00pm AEST)

  2. USQ: Q528B, QBlock, Toowoomba Campus, University of Southern Queensland (starts 2.00pm AEST)

Canberra: Australian National University: Meeting room 1, 9 Liversidge Street, Acton, ACT 2601 (starts 3.00pm AEDT)

Hobart: Late Change; please attend ONLINE. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Castray Esplanade, Battery Point. (starts 3.00pm AEDT)

Melbourne:

  1. Deakin University: Deakin Downtown, 727 Collins Street (starts 3.00pm AEDT)

  2. Monash University: G22, Ground Level, S.T.R.I.P. 1, 15 Innovation Walk, Monash Clayton Campus (starts 3.00 pm AEDT)

  3. La Trobe University, Bundoora: Vislab, Research Commons, La Trobe Library (starts 3.00pm AEDT)

  4. Victoria University, Footscray: Room A323, Footscray Park Campus (starts 3.00pm AEDT)

Perth: ARRC Boardroom (26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington) (starts 12:00pm AWST)

Sydney: University of Technology Sydney: Room CB01.09.29, Level 9, UTS Tower, 15 Broadway, Ultimo, City Campus (starts 3:00pm AEDT)

Contact: richard.ferrers or mingfang.wu -at- ands.org.au for more information about venues.

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