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NZ eResearch Symposium 2010

National eResearch event for the NZ research and scientific community. Supported by BeSTGRID and MoRST and hosted by the University of Auckland.

Investment in large research infrastructure is essential for NZ research. Range of environments are needed to meet specific needs of the research - capacity v. capability.

Access to bigger computing power means Jack can screen faster, so can ask different questions. Workflows and clients simplify job submission and complexity. The user is the bottleneck at the moment - including the visualisation of data/3D rendering.

Mike - BeSTGRID to the rescue. 50 hours v. 2 week time frame for job processing. For the same about of time, additional and more complicated science is possible.

Nicole - Pancreatic cancer. Genome sequencing. Contribution to International Cancer Genome Consortium collaboration in gene sequencing of cancer sufferers. Pancreatic cancer has the highest morality rate. Little research. What research has been done has not translated into the clinic. Sequencing mutated gene and normal gene. One subject, sequencing results in ~15TB of data. Dedicated HPC to deal with the raw data. Stored and available for other researchers.

Bill - we are losing more data than we can store. Producing far more data that we can capture and store. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/. A long way to go in building data tools and services to meet the needs of the scientific community. Informatics training. Best practices training of preparing data for processing, storage etc. Need to make better linkages between data and computing power.