eResearch Australasia Conference 2024
17 Oct 2024
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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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)
- NVIDIA workshop: Generative AI with Diffusion Models, 9am – 5pm
- AARNet workshop: Mastering Research Data Transfer and Automation with Globus, 1:30pm-5pm
- Lustre user group meeting (AusLUG) on Monday afternoon
Tuesday (29/10)
- BoF Session: Containers and Kubernetes in Australian Research: Building a Community for the Future, Aleem Uddin, starting at 12:10pm
- XENON Social: Starting at 6:30pm at Greenfields Albert Park (across the road from the conference)
Wednesday (30/10)

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- “Containers” session: Blue-sky and the cloud: Container Orchestration for eResearch, Nishanthi Dasanayaka, Mark Endrei, from 1:25pm – 1:45pm
- Jakub’s Szarlat from XENON’s presentation on Hybrid Cloud, from 1:45pm – 14:05pm
- XENON BoF session: Werner hosting; Adrian, Jakub, UQ, Pawsey, Aleem contributing/presenting, from 2:05pm – 3:05pm
“Research Data Stored” sessions:
- Protocols for Implementing Long-term Archival Repositories Services (PILARS): Moises Sacal Bonequi, Peter Sefton, 1:25pm – 1:45pm
- An analysis of Research Data Storage Implementations using a Reference Architecture: Jake Carroll, David Abramson, 1:45pm – 4:05pm
- RMIT’s Digital Research Infrastructure Roadmap: Towards A Strategic Approach in Research Excellence, Robert Shen, 2:05pm – 2:25pm
Thursday (31/10)
- 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
- BoF Session: Continuing to build the Tier 2 HPC community at eResearch, John Zaitseff, Luc Betbeder-Matibet, starting at 11:40am
- “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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