Opening the door to a whole new array of researchers who understand the systems they are working on, but do not have the technical skill-sets or hardware to properly answer their questions.
About the project
Six of Australia’s national research infrastructure investments have come together to create a new, exciting e-research platform to support Australian research: The Australian Science Clouds. The EcoCloud is one of these platforms and will provide the ecosystem science community with improved access to analysis tools, platforms and computing resources, via a single interface that links multiple data nodes and data service providers.
The Ecocloud project is a collaborative effort supported by NeCTAR as the major project sponsor, TERN and ALA as the NCRIS domain partners, QCIF as the implementation partner, and NCI as a key collaborator.
Core features
Ready-to-go data
Easily search and access a suite of ready-to-go ecological datasets through our EcoStore
for use in modelling and analytical tools
Compute power
We connect to Australia’s national cloud computing infrastructure so you don’t have to burden your personal computer
Analysis tools
Utilise preloaded and preconfigured popular analytical tools such as R Studio in
a cloud environment
User stories
I need access to a compute platform with tools such as Rstudio and QGIS attached and access to the TERN biophysical data collection to run large scale models
EcologistAs an application developer, I want a cloud platform to run my simulation with a local access to data so that I don’t move data around or download into my desktop.
Application developerI need to get temperature and precipitation data per local government area for set timeframes into my R model
PhD student, EcologyI need enough compute & storage to run a distributed large-scale data intensive application for a short period of time
Solution developerGot ideas? Get in touch.
Project sponsors
