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Newsletter
February 2014




Welcome to the RDSI monthly newsletter.

This newsletter aims to inform stakeholders throughout the research community of progress on the RDSI project and highlight the significant strides made by all the eResearch Service Operators that work with the project. We encourage recipients to spread the word and distribute this newsletter via email, social media and other mediums.

It is great to be able to report that all eight of these eResearch Service Operators are now collectively making around 3.5 Petabytes of research data available.

Enjoy this month's edition.

Dr Nick Tate
Director | Research Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI) Project
 
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What collections are stored at RDSI funded Nodes? 

Keep up to date with Node progress! Click below to find out what collections are being stored at the Nodes as well as the size of those collections.

 

Visit https://www.rdsi.edu.au/collections-stored

In This Issue
Collections at the Nodes
Store.Synchrotron
Stemformatics
Understanding how cancer develops
RDSI@NCI: A progress update
DaShNet: Reliable, high-speed broadband
New RDSI Security Feed
RDSI & CAUDIT Vendor Panel RFP



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Bigger, Better, Faster
Learn how researchers are using RDSI funded Nodes to benefit their research
Store.Synchrotron

The Australian Synchrotron's new Store.Synchrotron facility is a world-first storage, sharing, and reuse environment for synchrotron experiment data. Currently hosted at Monash University, Store.Synchrotron has been allocated storage on VicNode, the RDSI Node operated by the University of Melbourne and Monash University.

Read more and watch the video here
 

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Collecting and visualising stem cell data: Stemformatics


The Stemformatics team is using QCloud, the RDSI node operated by QCIF, to make available a growing collection of high quality gene expression datasets for stem cell research, and to allow researchers to quickly and easily visualise genes that interest them in these datasets. 


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Understanding how cancer develops 
 
MCO Whole Slide Image collection
Whole Slide Images from one of the world's largest colorectal cancer studies are now available on the Intersect RDSI funded Node.

Colorectal cancer (bowel cancer) is the second most common cancer in Australia, and after lung cancer the leading cause of cancer deaths. One in 10 men and one in 15 women will be diagnosed with bowel cancer during their lives.
 
 
What's new with the Nodes
Keep up to date with Node developments and sub-projects 
RDSI@NCI: A progress update
 
Data services and management form an important and growing component in the NCI portfolio of services, both complementing and integrating with the comprehensive, high-performance environment that supports computational and data-intensive research nationally. This contribution from NCI highlights its growing collections management capability, describes its high-performance storage installation, and updates the state of data ingestion under the RDSI ReDS program. 
 
RDSI project update
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DaShNet: Reliable, high-speed broadband for research data
 
DaShNet is now in production at the Intersect RDSI funded Node. This represents an important milestone for the RDSI Project and for researchers using data on RDSI funded Nodes.

 
 
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New RDSI Security Feed
 
RDSI has introduced a Security Twitter feed which aims to highlight security-related news, alerts and technical tips for the mitigation of security threats. These issues may affect the operators or users of RDSI-funded Nodes facilities, their related networks, and the eResearch support community. 
 
 

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RDSI & CAUDIT Vendor Panel RFP
 
Request For Proposals (RFP) continue to be accepted on an ongoing basis.  The RDSI & CAUDIT Vendor Panel has been set up to support the procurement of data storage infrastructure, software and services by the RDSI Nodes, higher-education and research sector in Australia and New Zealand.
 

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