PRAGMA U.

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PRAGMA U.

• David Abramson
• ARC Professorial FellowFaculty of Information
  Technology, Monash University
• Monash e-Research Centre
• Monash e-Science and Grid Engineering Lab
  (MeSsAGE)

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VeRSI/VLSCI Seminar series
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Use of Video conference technology
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PRIME _at_ Monash

• Engaged in PRIMEsince 2004
• Projects range from bio-engineering, theoretical
  chemistry to computer science
• Has underpinned long lasting academic
  collaborations
• Publications
• Presentations at conferences
• Undergraduate students without research
  experience!

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PRIME _at_ Monash Nearly always a PRIME number!
Melissa DiCiero-Monash
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PRIME _at_ Monash

• Projects usually involve application of our
  middleware (Nimrod) to an interesting application
• Leverage investment in PRAGMA infrastructure

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PRIME Projects Monash 2008

• Analyzing Adverse Effects of the Antidepressant
  Emsam in Silico, Haley-Hunter Zinck
• Binding Energy and Mechanisms of Conjugated
  Enediynes with a Ruthenium complex, Lynn Tai
• Modeling Calcium Ion Transients in the
  Sarcoplasmic Reticulum, Arielle Yablonovitch
• Effects of Tissue Level Parameter Variation on
  Cardiac Output, Randy Lee
• Transmural Heterogeneity of Mechanics in the
  Normal Heart, M. Amalia Prada Fernandez
• Medical Research Data Visualization on Tiled
  Display Wall, Sirvard Nshanyan
• Simulation of Particle Incorporation during
  Electrocodeposition Process, David Allen Wong

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PRIME embedded in local events
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Students give seminars
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PRIUS

• Susumu Date
• Osaka University, Japan

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Rough Approach of PRIUS

• Establish a consistent educational program for
  graduate students.

• On-the-Job-Training Education on PRAGMA Research
  Framework

P.D Exchange prgm produces liquidity in human
resource
P.D
Long Abroad Internship Provide skill building
chances
Doc
Research Part
Short Abroad Internship Offer trial opportunities
Educational Part
M2
Lecture course Stimulate students ambitious
M1
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PRIUS Internship
Internship Abroad FY2005 1 student
FY2006 4 students FY2007 7 students
FY2008 8 students (planed)
Visiting Lecturers FY2005 6
researchers FY2006 13 researchers
FY2007 12 researchers FY2008 12
researchers (scheduled)
At U. of Oxford
At IMEC Belgium
At Bauhaus University
At NTU, Singapore
At USM, Malaysia
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MURPA PRIME-1

• "Imitation is the sincerest of flattery." -
   Charles Caleb Colton

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What is MURPA?

• A new research oriented summer mode
  undergraduate subject that allows students to
  complete a research project abroad
• Collaborative research between Monash academics
  and peers overseas
• A video conference based seminar stream that
  imports real time presentations from leading
  international researchers

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MURPA International Research Seminar Series 2008

• Integrating Neuroscience Knowledge Brain
  Research in the Digital Age, Mark Ellisman,
  24Jul08
• CAMERA Community Cyberinfrastructure for
  Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis
  Larry Smarr, 31 Jul08
• On Accelerating Scientific Discovery using
  Scientific Workflows and the Kepler System, Ilkay
  Altintas, 7Aug08
• Visualization, Jurgen Schulze, 21Aug08
• Avian Flu Modeling, Wilfred Li, 28Aug08
• Cardiac modeling, Andrew McCulloch, 4Sept08
• Quantum Chemistry, Kim Baldridge, 11Sept08

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MURPA Lectures 2009
Peter Arzberger Benefiting Society through Information Technology Why Changes in Education are Needed
Fran Berman Harnessing the Data Deluge
Ilkay Altintas On Basics of Using Workflows for Scientific Exploration and the Kepler System
Roy Kerckhoffs Multi Scale Modelling of the Cardio System
Cindy Zheng Introduction to PRAGMA Grid
Wilfed Li Machine Learning Approaches in Avian Flu Drug Discovery
Phil Papadopoulos User-defined Clusters - Introduction to the Rocks Cluster Toolkit Merging Clouds and Clusters
Mike Norman Exploring OptIPortals as Petascale Simulation End Stations
Larry Smarr Can a Greener Internet Help Us Moderate Climate Change?
Jurgen Schulze Immersive Virtual Reality Research at Calit2

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Leveraging HD Video
Ive participated in numerous video conferences
to date but nothing like this. The quality was so
high that the experience was almost as if we were
all in the same room.
The massively increased bandwidth was
transformational. Quantity begat quality. Alan
Finkel, Chancellor, Monash Univ
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Larry Smarr CAMERA
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First MURPA intake

• Nicholas Barnes
• Parallel computation of biomechanics problems
• Aimee Li
• Virtual screening for inhibitors against avian
  flu
• Hoang Nguyen
• Kepler interface to Optiportal
• Mr. Peter Serwylo
• Urban image manipulation

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Seminars back in HD!
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First experiments with multi-site
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Another attempt at multi-site
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Another attempt at multi-site
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2/10/2009 3-way HD demonstrator Tech talk
System Map
5/10/2009 rev.04 Editor Yoshinori Kobayashi
Osaka Univ
Monash
Mpeg2
VLC 0.8.2(not 0.9)
Robst
Need high spec CPU (at least Core Duo)
130.194.71.2
202.180.34.117
Mpeg2
HaiPlayer
VLC 1.0.2
QVidium HD H.264 IP Codec
H.264
202.180.34.118
130.194.71.6
UCSD
Mako HaiVision system
VLC 0.8.2 (not 0.9)
Qvidium StreamViewer
DVCProHD
QVidium IEEE1394 IP GW
137.110.119.124
Qvidium StreamViewer
QVidium IEEE1394 IP GW
DVCProHD
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The future is here, at least for some.
High-speed communication will impact research
and education. Alan Finkel, Chancellor, Monash
Univ
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What are we going to do about it?

• Build some shared courses
• Existing courses
• New courses
• What are viable topics?
• What about topics in the arts and humanities?
• Language?
• Cultural outreach?
• Art and Design?
• Who is prepared to purchase equipment?
• David.abramson_at_infotech.monash.edu.au