1. RDSI: changing the face of research data storage in Australia
Viviani Paz, Project Manager
16 June 2015

2. Project Update Landscape pre-RDSI RDSI Project Objectives Programmes
Outcomes
Transitioning
Future

3. Research infrastructure
Landscape (1)
Federal government Initiatives
A decade of Strategic Investment
From 1997 : High Performance Computing Committee Report……….
To 2006: eResearch Coordinating Committee Report
$540M
Platforms for Collaboration
Research infrastructure

4. Landscape (2)
Digital Certificates

5. Landscape (3) Research data Backup? Share? Accessible? Secure? Grants?
Lost?
Reusable?
7 April 2019

6. 2011
100PB = 102,400TB = 104,857,600GB = 107,374,182,400MB

7. RDSI Project Objectives (from ABP)
Develop a national network of data stores
Create and develop a data storage infrastructure accessed through an infrastructure provided by agencies within the sector
Connect the data storage infrastructure to the Australian Research and Education Network (AREN) by a high bandwidth connection, funded and constructed under the National Research Networks (NRN) Project.
Dedicated high speed connections between major Nodes.
Support meritorious data collections through the Research Data Service Programme (ReDS).
Encourage economies of scale through the Vendor Panel Programme (VePa)

8. RDSI Programmes

9. ReDS Research Data Service
NoDe
Node Development
Identify, strengthen and develop research data centres able to hold and process high data volumes
ReDS Research Data Service
Identify research data holdings of lasting value and importance and contribute funding to their development at the most appropriate Node(s)
DaSh Data Sharing
Build capability to support the sharing and re-use of research data
VePa Vendor Panel
Establish a panel of vendors for RDSI Nodes and sector
RDSI Programmes

10. Node Development (NoDe)
Funded research data centres able to hold and process high data volumes
6 Primary Nodes
2 Additional Nodes
Townsville
Brisbane
Sydney
Canberra
Perth
Adelaide
Melbourne
Hobart

11. Research Data Services Programme (ReDS)
Identified research data holdings of lasting value and importance
Funded storage at Nodes (MAC)
Funded staff at nodes
to facilitate data ingest of collections, and
the development of Node infrastructure

12. Data Sharing Programme (DaSh)
DaSh Collaboration Network:
High performance network
between RDSI Nodes
DaSh Technical Architecture
SPIN
ARMS
Science DMZ

13. DaShNet
Redundant AARNet4 connections at each node to provide connectivity to the node from AARNet customers and Internet.
Slide courtesy of AARNet

14. DaSh Programme Outcomes
Mediaflux
Monitoring

15. VePa Programme
RDSI/CAUDIT
Vendor Panel
Current vendors on the panel

16. RDSI Project Outcome
Facilitated the creation of a robust, innovative and collaborative network of Nodes to support better managed and more accessible world-class research data in Australia.

17. Node Statuses (1)
Updated 9 June 2015

18. Node Statuses (2)
Updated 9 June 2015

19. 22 Fields of Research at RDSI funded storage
Updated 19 May 2015
Updated 9 June 2015

21. RDSI Project Transitioning
RDSI Project outcomes will be
efficiently and successfully preserved moving into the future
RDSI Project Outcomes
Nodes
DaShNet
AARNet
Vendor Panel
CAUDIT
Research Federated Identity
Nodes/AAF
7 April 2019

22. Pathway to the future
Previously my thinking was limited by the small amount of storage and computing that was available to me. I always had to summarise down and minimise the data. I don’t have to do that now. I don’t have to worry about the live disk limitation or the compute resources. Now I can keep doing the research as I’d like to see it done.
– Dr Jeremy VanDerWal
Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change, James Cook University

23.
7 April 2019

24. RDSI

25. National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS)
$300M
Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL)
Astronomy Australia (AAL)
Atlas of Living Australia (ALA)
Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility (AMMRF)
Australian National Data Service (ANDS)
Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF)
ANSTO Nuclear Science Facilities
Australian Phenomics Network (APN)
Australian Plant Phenomics Network (APPF)
Australian Plasma Fusion Research Facility (APFRF)
Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN)
AuScope
Biofuels
Bioplatforms Australia (BPA)
EMBL Australia
Groundwater (GIROS)
Heavy Ion Accelerators (HIA)
Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)
National Deuteration Facility (NDF)
National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources (NeCTAR)
National Imaging Facility (NIF)
Pawsey High Performance Computing Centre
Population Health Research Network (PHRN)
Research Data Service (RDS)
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN)
Translating Health Discovery into Clinical Applications (THD)

26. Infrastructure
& Foundation
Services

27. Q & A
Viviani Paz
Project Manager, RDSI
7 April 2019