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TechTalk 23: Galaxy – Distributed Computing Through Total Perspective Vortex

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This TechTalk is organised by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC).

The Galaxy Project and the national Galaxy Australia service for life science research make performing data driven analytics easy by providing a simple graphical user interface to users. Behind the scenes, the Galaxy Australia compute infrastructure is geographically distributed across a number of national cloud services. A user’s choice of tool and data is passed through a decision tree to ensure that the job is appropriately resourced and balances the needs of job turnaround time, throughput and overall efficiency. This is the work of the Total Perspective Vortex (TPV), a Galaxy plugin that provides a domain-agnostic design that is adaptable to other complex resource management systems.

Speakers:

Dr Gareth Price

Gareth is Project Lead for Galaxy Australia and a member of the Galaxy Executive Board. Gareth has over 20 years’ experience as a bioinformatician and genomics scientist. His expertise spans from early printed microarrays, to cartridge based GeneChips, through to multiple Next Gen platforms. His work also involved a variety of model organisms – including microorganisms, fruit flies, mice and humans – and non-model organisms with limited genome information.

Dr Nuwan Goonasekera

Nuwan is a research fellow at the University of Melbourne and a developer for Galaxy Australia. He has worked on applying cloud computing technologies to the biomedical research domain since the inception of the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud. He has also worked extensively on cloud portability and dynamically scalable infrastructure on the cloud.

Date/Time: Thursday 26 October 2023, 2 - 3 pm AEDT/ 1 - 2 pm AEST/ 1:30 - 2:30 pm ACDT/ 11 am - 12 pm AWST (Check in your timezone)

Who the TechTalk is for:

  • Research software engineers

  • Academics

  • Coders

  • Other interested parties

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