The NCI High Performance Computing (HPC) and High Performance Data (HPD) Platform to Support the Analysis of Petascale Environmental Data Collections  


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Evans, B. | Wyborn, L.A.I. | Pugh, T. | Allen, C. | Antony, J. | Gohar, K. | Porter, D. | Smillie, J. | Trenham, C. | Wang, J. | Ip, A. | Bell, G.

Abstract

The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) at the Australian National University (ANU) has co-located a priority set of over 10 PetaBytes (PBytes) of national data collections within a HPC research facility. The facility provides an integrated high-performance computational and storage platform, or a High Performance Data (HPD) platform, to serve and analyse the massive amounts of data across the spectrum of environmental collections in particular from the climate, environmental and geoscientific domains. The data is managed in concert with the government agencies, major academic research communities and collaborating overseas organisations. By co-locating the vast data collections with high performance computing environments and harmonising these large valuable data assets, new opportunities have arisen for Data-Intensive interdisciplinary science at scales and resolutions not hitherto possible.

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nonGeographicDataset

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83074

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ICTIS  

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Australian National University  

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Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)  
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  • External PublicationArticle
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  • High Performance Computing
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  • High Performance Data
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  • Cloud Computing
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  • Data-Intensive Science
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  • scalable data services
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  • data collections
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  • datasets
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  • data cube
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  • virtual laboratories
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  • Information and Computing Sciences
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2015-01-01T00:00:00

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This paper was written for ISESS and examines the data collections, the underlying High Performance Data (HPD) infrastructure, the management of trusted environments, and opportunities and challenges that this new research platform at NCI offers.

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This paper was written for ISESS and examines the data collections