Goings on in Australia

.. and being a good open source software citizen

Steve Androulakis steve.androulakis@monash.edu

What’s happening in Australia?

• NeCTAR is an Australian Government initiative to establish a ‘research cloud’

• Part of 47m has been allocated to establish 28,000 CPUs and have services written on the infrastructure

• Services that allow researchers to process, visualize, share and interact with data without having to maintain hardware / software

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Mytardis: Contributions over time

2008: Me (Steve Androulakis) working in isolation in my lab

Mytardis: Contributions over time

2011: Active projects at Synchrotron / Monash / RMIT / UQ / NSW

Collaboration with Stfc (RAL)

• ICAT and PanDATA are establishing data cataloguing for over 10 scientific facilities in Europe.

• Drawing on experiences customising and deploying MyTardis in diverse disciplines

Because data capture is hard.Custom instruments, user auth, systems, workflows, data types and sizes

Being a good open source citizen

• Version control and good practices

• Virtual machines / cloud images / deployment configuration management

• “Why NOT public?”

• ... helps sustainability and quality into the future

Steve Androulakis

steve.androulakis@monash.edu

• Resources

• bioscience-data-platform.posterous.com

• github.com/mytardis/mytardis