Case Studies

As a USQ special education researcher, Dr Kay Ayre would carry a portable hard drive to regularly back up her files of data. QRIScloud and Nextcloud solved that problem for her. QCIF’s USQ-based eResearch Analyst helped Dr Ayre set up a Nextcloud desktop application on her computer and transfer her files across.

University of Southern Queensland PhD student Bonnie Green is looking at piano teaching practices and how they have either promoted or denied the creativity of those who go on to become piano teachers. She is using QRIScloud for data and document storage and is thankful to have a free, secure system.

With the help of QCIF and other eResearch providers, a team of women chemistry researchers at The University of Queensland were able to harness local and national high-performance computers to complete their project. The results of their work was published in the “Women in Computational Chemistry” special issue of an international chemistry journal.

CQUniversity-developed FruitMaps is a data tool that takes real-time data from multiple sources and displays them visually to provide a simple, free, online decision support tool adapted for use by farmers to assess fruit maturity and assist harvesting planning. The data collections that underpin the tool are stored on QRIScloud, QCIF’s cloud computing service.

Through QCIF, a Griffith University renewable energy researcher has taken his work to the next level with all-important access to national high-performance computers. Before contacting QCIF, Dr Yun Wang was facing the very real possibility of having to stop computational research due to a lack of HPC resources.

University of Southern Queensland researchers are using drones to map farms to help form a more targeted, lower-cost and environmentally-friendly approach to eliminating weeds. Large volumes of aerial imagery and drone data being collected by the USQ team during the project’s current trial period are stored and managed on QCIF’s QRIScloud.