Case Studies

CQUniversity-developed DataMuster is a groundbreaking animal monitoring Web application that combines livestock management hardware with cutting-edge software so beef producers have a precise understanding of animal performance. QRIScloud provides the server to run the app and hosts the data.

In a bid to reduce time and financial constraints, the University of Queensland’s Microbial Genomics Lab is increasingly using free cloud computing resources, such as QCIF’s, for a range of ARC and NHMRC-funded projects that use genomics to investigate multi-drug resistant superbugs.

Australia’s Threatened Species Index project is developing a tool to allow holistic reporting on the broad status of Australia’s biodiversity, as is routinely done for the economy. The project team is using QRIScloud to run the thousands of combinations of indices, and for data storage.

Vegmachine is a free, fast online tool providing Australians with detailed ground cover analysis to help with grazing and land management decisions. QRIScloud provides storage for the satellite data powering Vegmachine. Australia’s Joint Remote Sensing Research Program (JRSRP) is the team behind Vegmachine.

QCIF offers a number of services for researchers from our member universities who need to gain access to world-class HPC resources. These include training courses, face-to-face support, and a “grant” program to fund early-career researchers to get a track record in the use of national HPC facilities.

DustWatch Australia has taken a collaborative approach to understanding wind erosion and is bringing together relevant data sets, modelling those data and making the information openly available. QRIScloud is being used to store the project’s raw data.