1. A Technology Pathway eRSA’s Next Five Years Mary Hobson CEO

2. The Present Hardware Storage – 5+ Petabytes, tiered storage with lots of vault, two different systems (Hitachi and Dell Compellent), lustre etc Compute – HPC stand alone, Cloud with some cluster capability Networking – 80 gig backbone with easy access to dark fibre and links to National Research Network

3. The Present Middleware Locally Queuing systems to select best capability for the individual jobs Reporting on usage Identity Management for each research group, funder, institution and permissions

4. The Present Middleware Nationally National Research Network – to link all the universities to one specialist research network Aspera to move big data between states LiveArc as a common interface and to aid the production of metadata Metadata repository

5. The Present Applications Specialist HPC applications for parallel processing, including SPSS Share software with other providers for HPC Cloud Windows, Linux and other desktops Shared cloud applications on the federated cloud Virtual Laboratories

6. The Present Usage HPC – mostly special users who need fast compute specialist algorithms, and who usually use volume data. Particle physics, genonics, chemistry etc Cloud – shared and collaborative research, users needing grunty desktop, outsourced research IT Storage – scratch, data development, data collections

7. The Future Hardware Storage is storage – but we need to make sure it is accessible to all cloud and HPC Compute – demand for “batch processing” type of HPC is constant. Growth is in cloud approach, with needs spanning from desk top through to HPC. We are working on cloud with moveable “partitions” so we can put clusters of nodes together or use them singly. Burst compute using AWS or similar Networking – more, give us more.

8. The Future Middleware Identity Management to go national, using AAF (Australian Access Federation) for universities, and working with other organisations. More “smart” queuing

9. The Future Services Just beginning to develop these, based on what we have already This is the growth area, taking on whole solutions and working with the researchers to understand their work and how to enhance research outcomes locally and nationally Reusing data - 70% of research cost is in creating data

10. The Future Concepts Collaboration – nationally and internationally. Federation – may be through standards rather than whole solutions Changing our environment – independence leads to accountability Education – we need to enable researchers to both use eResearch that is available, and to use eResearch to enable new kinds of research

11. The Future Growth Strategy Growth as a means to subsidize academic research Growth to enable the transference of innovation into products Growth to give us more and different leading edge capability Collaboration is key, but we should not shy away from competition – it keeps us sharp.