eResearch Infrastructure
The eResearch components of the Super Science Initiatives (see Super Science on the left Bar), with an aggregate investment of $312M as announced as part of the Commonwealth Government's budget on 12 May, will enhance collaboration, manage massive data assets, and provide super-computing and analysis tools to enhance Australia's ability to tackle the complex, national and global issues of the future. They build on the Australian Government's prior investment of $82 million through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (see NCRIS on the left bar), which established the Platforms for Collaboration capability. The additional Super Science investment occurs as an outcome of the recent revision of the NCRIS Roadmap which strengthened the view of the importance of the investment in eResearch Infrastructure. The revised Roadmap is available here (Revised Roadmap 2.8Mb pdf). These investments are intended to develop and provide the following basic functionality:
The achievement of research connectivity and "seamless reach" from researcher desktops to all research resources (across institutions) is supported through the development of the Australian Access Federation (AAF), the provision of advanced network services by AARNet, and by ongoing work towards advanced authorization services and advanced collaborative network services.
| AeRIC | Overall guidance to these developments is provided by the Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council |
| ANDS | A national research data commons, supporting the "data federations" needed by 21st century research, is under construction by the Australian National Data Service. |
| ARCS | Enhanced collaboration tools and services that support "research workflows" accessing instrument, compute and data resources nationwide, are operated by the Australian Research Collaboration Service. |
| NCI | The capability computing needed to build and operate the "advanced models" of complex systems that lie behind major research goals is provided through the National Computational Infrastructure. |
| NeAT | Technical guidance for service development aimed at specific research communities is provided by the National eResearch Architecture Taskforce |
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