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- AAF
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Australian Access Federation: The AAF provides a framework and support infrastructure to facilitate trusted electronic communications and collaboration within and between universities and research institutions in Australia and overseas.
- AARNet
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Australian Academic Research Network: AARNet provides high-capacity leading-edge Internet services for the tertiary education and research sector communities and their research partners.
- ABS
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Australian Bureau of Statistics: The ABS provides statistics on a wide range of economic and social matters, serving government, business and the general population. Statistics on the ABS website can be accessed free of charge.
- Access Grid
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The Access Grid® is an ensemble of resources including multimedia large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and interfaces to Grid middleware and to visualization environments. These resources are used to support group-to-group interactions across the Grid. These resources are used to support group-to-group interactions across the Grid.
- AeRIC
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Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council: AeRIC was established by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research to provide advice to the Department on its eResearch infrastructure investments.
- Altix
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Altix is Silicon Graphics' line of servers and supercomputers based on Intel processors. iVEC's Cognac and XE are SGI Altix machines
- ANDS
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Australian National Data Service: ANDS is charged with establishing an Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and is supporting researchers and research institutions to use their data more effectively to meet the demands of 21st Century research. ANDS will also build out of its ARDC its underpinning infrastructure into institutions and significantly expanding the content in the Data Commons (SuperScience).
- ANZSKA
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Australia and New Zealand Square Kilometre Array: ANZSKA is a collaboration between the two respective Governments to bid for the SKA for the region.
- AODN
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Australian Ocean Data Network: AODN enhances access to, and re-use of, Australian marine science data and data products by ensuring standards-of-practice across the marine science data management community, and providing a one-stop-shop for marine science data access.
- APAC
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Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing: APAC was created by the (then) Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) in order to provide advanced computing and grid infrastructure for Australian research communities.
- ARC
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Australian Research Council: delivers policy and programs that advance Australian research and innovation globally and benefit the community. The ARC provides advice to the Government on research matters and manages the National Competitive Grants Program (NCGP).
- ARCS
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Australian Research Collaboration Service: ARCS is responsible for devising and deploying collaboration tools and services that support research teams and research workflow, accessing instruments, computation and management of data resources nation wide.
- ARCS Data Fabric
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A simple production service allowing researchers, research groups, research organizations and research communities to store their data. In addition to the storage itself, it can also provide features useful for data collaboration, replication, and transfer and for building into other eResearch services.
http://www.arcs.org.au/products-services/data-services/arcs-data-fabric-...
- ARCS Grid
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A collection of infrastructure based on standards that will allow researchers to use remote, probably large, compute and data engines without having to know specific details about them.
- ARDC
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Australian Research Data Commons
- AREN
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The term for the collective private broadband network serving Australian research and education communities.
- ARRC
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Australian Resources Research Centre
- ASC
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CSIRO Advanced Scientific Computing Group
- ASKAIC
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The Australasian Square Kilometre Array Industry Consortium has representatives from academia, government and industry. ASKAIC members collaborate on benefits to industry from the SKA, and how to best secure the funding to build the SKA.
- ASKAP
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Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder: The ASKAP is a radio telescope being built by CSIRO in Western Australia. It is both a pathfinder to the SKA, and a powerful instrument in its own right.
- ASSDA
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Australian Social Science Data Archive: Consortium of Australian universities to provide a national service for the collection and preservation of computer readable data with relation to social, political and economic affairs, and to make such data available for further analysis.
- Associate Membership
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This is an annual membership of iVEC by industry or government organisations, who use iVEC resources to produce and/or distribute research data products.
- ATCA
- ATNF
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CSIRO's radio astronomy observatories are collectively known as the Australia Teelscope National Facility.
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/ - AuScope
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AuScope is a geoscience and geospatial infrastructure system that combines traditional research infrastructure with applied science infrastructure. AuScope will transform the practice of and outcomes from geoscience for researchers, industry and the wider community. AuScope is funded under NCRIS.
- Australian Compute Cloud
B
- Biotechnology
- Blender
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An open source cross platform 3D modelling, rendering, and animation package.
http://www.blender.org/ - BPA
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BioPlatforms Australia: Bioplatforms Australia is responsible for building scientific infrastructure in the specialist fields of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and bioinformatics. Funding has been provided by NCRIS and the Super Science Program.
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- CAUDIT
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The Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology is an industry wide group of the IT Directors/CIOs of all universities in Australia and New Zealand. CAUDIT's Mission is to enhance its members' ability as key strategic advisers on the use of Information Technology in Higher Education.
- CCG
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Centre for Comparative Genomics
- Central TAFE
- CIRA
- Cloud
- Cloud computing
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Virtualisation of computer hardware or services. These services are accessed without needing to know physically where the service is or how it is run. Google Mail is an example of a cloud computing service. Cloud computing aims to saving money or increase computer throughputs.
- Cluster
- CMCA
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Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis at UWA
- Cognac
- Commonwealth Government
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Australian National government
- Compute Cloud
- Cray
- Cray XT3
- CSIRO
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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation: CSIRO is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world
- Curtin University
- Customer Survey
- Cutler review
- CWDM
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- Data Centre
- Data Fabric
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A cloud storage solution provided by the Australian Research Collaboration Service. The storage is spread across the country, but the users are presented with a single intuitive interface.
- DEWHA
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Commonwealth Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
- DIISR
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National Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.
- DownUnder Geo
- Drupal
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An open source content management system for creating websites.
- DWDM
E
- Edith Cowan University
- Education Advisory Group
- Education Program
- EIF
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Education Investment Fund: The Education Investment Fund (EIF) was announced in the 2008-09 Budget and is a major component of the Government's Education Revolution. The role of the EIF is to build a modern, productive, internationally competitive Australian economy by supporting world-leading, strategically-focused infrastructure investments that will transform Australian tertiary education and research. Super Science Infrastructure is funded from the EIF
- EVO
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EVO stands for Enabling Virtual Organisations. It is primarily an architecture for supporting collaboration. Among other capabilities it supports video conferencing, shared whiteboards, instant messaging, chat, and a formal private or public meeting booking system.
- Executive
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- GASS
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Galactic All Sky Survey
- Gbps
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Gigabits per second
- Geoinformatics
- GeoNetwork
- Geoscience Australia
- GeoServer
- GPU
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Graphics Processing Unit
- Grid Computing
- Grid Technology
- GridFTP
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GridFTP is a series of extension to the FTP (FIle Transfer Protocol) to enable reliable and high performance file transfer using grid infrastructure.
- Grisu
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- HASS
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Humanities, the Arts, and Social Science: A term to reference a range of disciplines in the Humanities, Arts and Social Science
- Heterogenous parallel computing
- High Performance Computing
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Use of computers for high throughput of computation, solving large problems, or getting results faster. High Performance is relative to a desktop computer or server of the day.
- High Performance Heterogenous Computing
- HP2
- HPC
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See "High Performance Computing"
- HPSC
- HSM
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- ICI
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Interoperation and Collaboration Infrastructure: ICI is a component of Platforms for Collaboration (PfC), under NCRIS.
- ICRAR
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International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research: The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research is a Western Australian joint venture formed in 2009, which promotes excellence in astronomical science and engineering.
- ICT
- IM&T
- IMOS
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Integrated Marine Observing System: IMOS is a distributed set of equipment and data-information services which collectively contribute to meeting the needs of marine climate research in Australia.
- IMOS-eMII
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IMOS-eMarine Information Infrastructure: IMOS data is available to researchers through the eMarine Information Infrastructure (eMII) located at the University of Tasmania.
- Industry and Government Uptake Program
- Infomatics
- Intersect
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Institute for Transdisciplinary eResearch Services and Technology: Intersect coordinates eResearch activites across NSW. Intersect was established in 2008, and is the NSW member of ARCS.
- Itanium
i
- iDome
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The iDome is an immersive display system that is capable of presenting a virtual environment that fills the viewers field of view. It has found most application in science visualisation, virtual heritage, and serious gaming.
- iVEC
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An organisation dedicated to providing supercomputing capacity and eResearch services to Western Australian researchers. iVEC is a joint venture between CSIRO and WA’s four public universities, with support from the State Government.
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- Landgate
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Landgate is Western Australia’s primary source of land information and geographic data. Includes details on properties, titles, valuations, maps, aerial and satellite photography.
http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/ - LIEF
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Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities: A grants scheme from the Australian Research Council. The scheme provides funding for large-scale cooperative infrastructure initiatives.
- LINPACK
- Linux
M
- MARCS
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Member organisations of the Australian Research Collaboration Service. Joint venture established to implement the NCRIS ICI Project, i.e. QCIF, VPAC, iVEC etc.
http://www.arcs.org.au/index.php/about-us/members-a-associates
- Marron
- Massively Parallel Processing
- Mbps
- Membership
- MEST
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Metadata Entry and Search Tool
- Metadata
- MicroCT
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Microtomography uses x-rays to create cross-sections of a 3D-object that later can be used to recreate a virtual model without destroying the original model.
- MODIS
- Moodle
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In an open source LMS (Learning management system).
http://moodle.org/ - MPI
- MPLS
- MRO
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Murchison Radio Astronomy Observatory
- Multicore
- Murdoch University
- MWA
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Murchison Wide-field Array
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- NAMD
- Nanotechnology
- NASA
- National eResearch Grid
- NCI
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National Computational Infrastructure: NCI provides world class high-end high performance computing infrastructure and services to the Australian research community to enable them to address climate change, earth systems science, national water management issues and astronomy amongst others. Includes an NCI National Facility, specialised facilities, and specialist support for computation tools and techniques. The NCI project funded under NCRIS and the Climate HPC project funded under the Super Science Education Investment Fund are managed together under NCI.
- NCRIS
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National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy: Through NCRIS the Australian Government is implementing a strategic and collaborative approach to investment in world-class research facilities, networks and infrastructure that are accessible to researchers and meet their long-term needs. NCRIS is providing $542 million from 2004-05 to 2010-2011 to develop and fund national research infrastructure projects.
- NeAT
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National eResearch Architecture Taskforce: The National eResearch Architecture Taskforce (NeAT) is a committee of experts (now disbanded) established under the NCRIS Platforms for Collaboration capability to develop and assist the adoption of new eResearch methods and tools. NeAT was responsible for identifying opportunities to develop and implement e-Research methods, tools and services, and embedding these into research communities. The NCRIS contribution to NeAT activities is budgeted on a continuous average expenditure of $3 million per annum, i.e., $12 million in total over 4 years.
- NRIC
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National Research Infrastructure Council: NRIC was established by invitation from the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research to provide strategic advice on future research infrastructure investments, including those to be funded through the Super Science Initiative. NRIC also contributes policy advice to government.
http://www.innovation.gov.au/Section/science/Pages/nric.aspx
- NUMALink
- NWCHEM
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- OpenCL
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OpenCL stands for Open Compute Language, it is a standards based framework for developing software that will run across heterogeneous platforms made up from multicore CPUs, GPUs, and potentially other processor architectures.
- OpenDAP
- OpenMP
P
- Pawsey Centre Project
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The Pawsey Centre Project is funded with $80 million under the Super Science Education Investment Fund to build a world-class supercomputing centre in Perth on land owned by CSIRO. This is to aid Australia's bid in securing the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope. It will also boost Western Australia and Australia's wider research credentials by supporting works in other data-intensive disciplines.
- Pbstore
- Petascale
- Petascale Data Store
- PfC
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Platforms for Collaboration: The Platforms for Collaboration (PfC) capability of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) was funded to provide many of the platforms for Australian researchers to engage in e-Research, both domestically and internationally. e-Research platforms provide researchers with the ability to generate, collect, share, analyse, store and retrieve information.
- Plone
- Pmd*CRC
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- QCIF
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Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation: QCIF provides advanced computing resources to Queensland researchers. QCIF is an incorporated joint venture of the Queensland universities since 2000, and receives additional funding from the Queensland government. QCIF was previously known as the QPSF (Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Foundation).
R
- RNO
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Regional Network Organisation: Organisations providing state-based network services to support the AREN (includes SABREnet, Aurora)
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- Sakai
- SAM-FS
- Samba
- SAN
- Scitech
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Scitech is Western Australia's main science centre located in the City West Centre. It includes hands on exhibits, regular touring exhibitions, performances, and a planetarium.
- Scp
- Sftp
- SGI
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Silicons Graphics, Inc.
- Shared-memory
- SISS
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Spatial Information Services Stack
- SKA
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Square Kilometre Array: The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be a new generation radio telescope that has a discovery potential 10,000 times greater than the best present-day instruments. It will give astronomers remarkable insights into the formation of the early Universe, including the emergence of the first stars, galaxies and other structures.
- SKA Pathfinder
- SLIP
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Shared Land Information Platform
- Spatial data
- Square Kilometre Array
- SRO
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State Records Office
- SSI
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Super Science Initiative: The Super Science Initiative, announced as part of the Commonwealth Government’s budget on 12 May, is providing a substantial boost to Australia’s national research infrastructure, comprising a total commitment of $1.1 Billion. The Super Science investments are providing Australian researchers with early access to the research tools of the 21st century and allowing them to participate in national and international research endeavours: how best to live with climate, ecology and environmental change, and how best to develop the new materials, new energy solutions, and the new medicine on which our future depends.
http://www.innovation.gov.au/Section/science/Pages/superscienceinitiativ...
- Super Science Program
- Supercomputing
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Use of computers for high throughput of computation, solving large problems, or getting results faster. Supercomputing is relative to a desktop computer or server of the day.
T
- Technology Park
- TERN
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Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network: The purpose of TERN is to establish the necessary cooperative and data frameworks for a national, collaborative approach to ecosystem infrastructure and research. TERN has been funded under NCRIS since 2009.
- TPAC
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Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing: The Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing provides advanced computing infrastructure and services to Tasmanian researchers.
U
V
- Virtual environments
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Virtual environments is a term use to describe computer simulations that are presented in such a way as to allow the viewer to imagine themselves in the simulated/virtual world.
- Virtual machine
- Visualisation
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Visualisation is generally the name given to the processes of turning data into a visual experience. The goal of most visualisation processes is to provide insight into the data being visualised.
- VPAC
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Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing: VPAC is an independent consortium of Victorian Universities. VPAC provides services, training and support in Advanced Computing and professional R&D services in the application of advanced computing. VPAC is the lead agent for the ARCS ICI program.
- VPN
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Virtual Private Network
W
- WALIS
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Western Australian Land Information System
- WAMSI
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Western Australian Marine Science Institution
- WASP
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Western Australian Supercomputer Program
- WASTAC
- WDM
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Wave Division Multiplexing
- Wonderland