eResearch Australasia is heading to Melbourne, 28 October to 1 November, 2024.

The XENON team is looking forward to catching up with colleagues and our vendor partners over a jam packed week.

If you are heading to the conference, please be sure to register for the XENON Social, on Tuesday 29/10, from 6:30pm to 9:30pm – details here. 

More details on the conference, program and to register – visit the official AeRO eResearch website here.

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XENON Highlights

The agenda looks absolutely awesome this year, and some of the sessions we’re especially looking forward are listed here, to give you a flavour of what to expect at eResearch 2024.  See the full program here.

Monday (28/10)

1. NVIDIA workshop: Generative AI with Diffusion Models, 9am – 5pm
2. AARNet workshop: Mastering Research Data Transfer and Automation with Globus, 1:30pm-5pm
3. Lustre user group meeting (AusLUG) on Monday afternoon

Tuesday (29/10)

1. BoF Session: Containers and Kubernetes in Australian Research: Building a Community for the Future, Aleem Uddin, starting at 12:10pm
2. XENON Social: Starting at 6:30pm at Greenfields Albert Park (across the road from the conference)

Wednesday (30/10)

1. “Containers” session: Blue-sky and the cloud: Container Orchestration for eResearch, Nishanthi Dasanayaka, Mark Endrei, from 1:25pm – 1:45pm
2. Jakub’s Szarlat from XENON’s presentation on Hybrid Cloud, from 1:45pm – 14:05pm
3. XENON BoF session: Werner hosting; Adrian, Jakub, UQ, Pawsey, Aleem contributing/presenting, from 2:05pm – 3:05pm

“Research Data Stored” sessions:

1. Protocols for Implementing Long-term Archival Repositories Services (PILARS): Moises Sacal Bonequi, Peter Sefton, 1:25pm – 1:45pm
2. An analysis of Research Data Storage Implementations using a Reference Architecture: Jake Carroll, David Abramson, 1:45pm – 4:05pm
3. RMIT’s Digital Research Infrastructure Roadmap: Towards A Strategic Approach in Research Excellence, Robert Shen, 2:05pm – 2:25pm

Thursday (31/10)

1. Astronomy at Scale: The Data Platform Powering the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center’s Half-Exabyte Challenges Anthony Vandewerdt (WEKA), 11:00am – 11:20am
2. BoF Session: Continuing to build the Tier 2 HPC community at eResearch, John Zaitseff, Luc Betbeder-Matibet, starting at 11:40am
3. “HPC for Research” track: Innovative Long Term Storage Solutions for HPC, The Pawsey Supercomputer Centre’s Next-Generation Architecture with Chris Schlipalius and Bruce Gilpin, 2:00pm to 2:20pm

See you there!

The eResearch community is a growing and active community, and we look forward to one of the best eResearch conferences yet in 2024!

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