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The Research Computing Centre (RCC) provides coordinated management and support of The University of Queensland’s sustained and substantial investment in eResearch. RCC helps researchers across disciplines make the most of UQ's eResearch technologies. #UQ
RCC Director Jake Carroll spoke yesterday at the IBM Storage Scale User Group Meeting at #SC25 in St Louis, Missouri, US
RCC Director Jake Carroll spoke yesterday at the IBM Storage Scale User Group Meeting at #SC25 in St Louis, Missouri, US. #UQ and IBM Australia have partnered to create a Centre of Excellence & Innovation to support researchers working in a wide range of disciplines.
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Call for papers for next year’s Belfast-based ACM International Conference on Supercomputing, #ICS2026.
Papers are requested on all aspects of the architecture, software & applications of HPC systems of all scales, from chips to supercomputing systems.
rcc.uq.edu.au/article/2025...
Check out our event news, including our staff activities at #eResAU2025; the call for papers for #ICS2025; a RCC seminar recording about AI security; and a UQ Library event about #AI in academic research and publishing.
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RCC Director Jake Carroll and Prof. Paul Bonnington, #UQ Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research Infrastructure) & the head of RCC’s organisational unit at UQ, officially opened the #eResAU2025 conference this morning in Brisbane.
(Photos by RCC’s Sarah Walters.)
The main program of #eResAU2025 starts today in Brisbane. Six RCC staff will be involved in talks, panels, workshops & more at the conference. See the full list of RCC activities at eResAU2025:
rcc.uq.edu.au/article/2025...
RCC Director Jake Carroll has been at the International Data Week conference at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre this week. Check out the video of Jake on the #IDW2025 homepage: idw2025.org
Wonderful to have this event in Brisbane, with co-located events: RDA Plenary Meeting, & SciDataCon
Hear what our thesis project students have been up to at these seminars this Thursday. Join us in person or online. #UQ
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RCC's thesis project students will present their progress seminars on Thur, 16 Oct, 12pm–1:30pm at RCC & online. #UQ staff/students, & the public, are invited to attend & take part in discussions. Your feedback will help our students strengthen their project outcomes.
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If you missed our seminar with IBM’s Holly Wright titled “How to Attack and Defend LLMs: AI Security Explained”, see the video recording below. Learn how hackers exploit large language models, and how to safeguard your models from being manipulated.
#cybersecurity #AI #hack
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RCC Director Jake Carroll will be speaking at #IBMTechXchange in Florida this Oct. He’ll be on a panel (Fusion & #AI) & lead some tech breakout sessions too, namely: “Time for the real deal of agentic infrastructures in research”, & “The mightiness of parallel filesystems taken to a whole new place”
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RCC Director Jake Carroll will be speaking at #IBMTechXchange in Florida this Oct. He’ll be on a panel (Fusion & #AI) & lead some tech breakout sessions too, namely: “Time for the real deal of agentic infrastructures in research”, & “The mightiness of parallel filesystems taken to a whole new place”
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#JOB: We’re hiring a Full Stack Developer! Design, develop & maintain innovative web applications that empower UQ’s research community.
Join a collaborative team.
Apply by COB 9 October.
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#UQ
Photos above by Sarah Walters (@xaraxia.bsky.social), RCC Projects and Digital Research Infrastructure Delivery Manager.
Learn more about RCC via our website: rcc.uq.edu.au
RCC Director Jake Carroll delivering his QBI talk. Jake is standing in front of a large, projected PowerPoint slide about AI types, including "Artificial Narrow Intelligence", "Artificial Super Intelligence", and "Artificial General Intelligence." On the latter slide, Jake has written: "Note: We aren't here, despite all the general unsubstantiated commentary in the industry."
RCC Director Jake Carroll delivering his QBI talk. Jake is standing in front of a large, projected PowerPoint slide that says: "RCC builds things for research, with researchers. Tell us what is missing from your toolkit or what you do in your work — and why it's slow/inefficient/not working particularly well."
Photos from RCC Director Jake Carroll's (@zebrax0r.bsky.social) UQ QBI talk about RCC-managed digital research infrastructure & how it can enable research discovery. Jake discussed what RCC can do for #UQ researchers, what researchers need to consider with AI, & what RCC is doing in the #AI space.
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Join us for this seminar: How to Attack and Defend LLMs: AI Security Explained.
The speaker is Holly Wright, an architect & software engineer in IBM's security team.
Join us at #UQ St Lucia on Wed, 20 August, 10am+.
Free, but please register for catering purposes:
rcc.uq.edu.au/event/sessio...
RCC News out now! Read about:
*RCC & HPE scale extreme AI capabilities even further
*Simon Forsyth joins RCC
*RCC seminar inspires UQ researcher to visit San Diego
*RCC reports on #SCA2025 (SupercomputingAsia)
*Time change for Hacky Hour UQ
*RCC Director in #IDW2025 video
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Simon Forsyth has joined RCC to leverage its centralised position within #UQ as he continues to manage the University's site license of REDCap, a secure, web-based platform designed for building and managing data collections. Simon first joined UQ in 1988.
rcc.uq.edu.au/article/2025...
In Boston, RCC Director Jake Carroll met ex-RCC staffer Hoang Nguyen, who now works in the US city.
In Boston, RCC Director Jake Carroll met ex-RCC staffer Hoang Nguyen, who now works in the US city. Jake was in Boston for IBM Think 2025 as part of a panel about IBM's storage innovations in powering Gen AI. UQ and IBM have a partnership to trial IBM tech at UQ.
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Before #UQ computational chemistry researcher Dr Paul Visendi Muhindira attended a RCC seminar last August, he had no idea it would inspire him to visit San Diego, namely the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
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#supercomputing #HPC #computationalchemistry #drugresearch
ICYMI: UQ's new Natural Resources Innovation and Characterisation Hub is the latest lab to receive UQ RCC's assistance in deploying PITSCHI, a state-of-the-art repository for managing large imaging datasets.
rcc.uq.edu.au/article/2024...
#UQ #imaging #datamanagement
Check out our Director in this great video by ARDC. 🤩
Jake talks about #IDW2025 coming to Brisbane in October (we’re excited!); research infrastructure at #UQ, including #HPC Bunya; and NCRIS facilities in Australia.
Prof. David Abramson presenting at Supercomputing Asia 2025.
Jake Carroll presenting at Supercomputing Asia 2025.
Jake Carroll presenting at Supercomputing Asia 2025.
Jake Carroll presenting at Supercomputing Asia 2025.
Photos of our current Director, Jake Carroll (@zebrax0r.bsky.social), & former Director, Prof. David Abramson, co-leading a workshop yesterday at #SupercomputingAsia2025 in Singapore. The workshop was about Documenting and Classifying Research Data Infrastructure.
#SCA25 #HPC #UQ
And RCC Research Systems Projects and Delivery Manager Sarah Walters will co-present a talk on Wednesday 2:15pm+ titled: "Empowering Generative AI in Enterprises: Sustainable, High-Performance Storage Solutions with Global Data Fabric and Data Lakehouse."
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#SCA25 #HPC
RCC staff will be at #SupercomputingAsia2025 next week. Our current Director, @zebrax0r.bsky.social, & former Director, Prof. David Abramson, will co-lead a workshop on Monday about Documenting & Classifying Research Data Infrastructure.
#SCA25 #HPC
sca25.sc-asia.org/programme-2/
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#UQ is the first in Australia’s education sector to trial Lenovo and chipmaker AMD’s next-generation #GPU hardware for the most demanding #AI and #HPC applications.
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RCC was at #APMC13 last week. RCC Director Jake Carroll (@zebrax0r.bsky.social) was part of a closing panel discussing emerging solutions for managing large datasets.
Jake & RCC's Mark Endrei were also part of leading a pre-conf. workshop on microscopy data management, with #UQ as a test case.
From all of us at UQ RCC, we wish you a safe, restful and rejuvenating holiday season.
Read the rest of our Director's end-of-year message, and check the 2024/2025 holiday hours for the RCC Service Desk, Hacky Hour #UQ and Virtual HPC User Support (vHPC) meetups:
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Our newsletter is out now!
Our lead story is about how #UQ is the first in Australia’s education sector to trial Lenovo and AMD’s next-gen' #GPU hardware for the most demanding #AI and #HPC applications.
+ We won two #UQ awards!
+ Read our Director's #SC24 report.
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