ACCESS-NRI Incubator
Enabling research and innovation to address climate change through trust and identity
Understanding the usage of Australia’s critical climate change modelling software through user reporting, will inform the future of this service.
ACCESS-NRI, Australia’s Climate Simulator, is the national critical research infrastructure that provides software engineering support for Earth system and climate research.
Standing for the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator – ACCESS – is a computer modelling framework that includes atmospheric, ocean, sea-ice, and land surface models coupled to a range of chemical and biological models. Its potential impact is far reaching, and enables crucial modelling and research, that contributes to international global climate reports, weather forecasting, seasonal prediction, climate projection and climate adaptation policy.
The Australian Access Federation (AAF) and ACCESS-NRI are partnering through the Trust and Identity Pathfinder program, funded by the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), to explore the challenges of reporting on the usage of ACCESS-NRI assets such as code and data.
Andy Hogg, ACCESS-NRI’s Director says “ACCESS-NRI currently has limited direct data on the use of our assets and a high level of administrative burden is required to accurately identify and report on impact.
“Through partnering with the AAF as a Trust and Identity Pathfinder incubator, we are looking to explore how we can increase the efficiencies of reporting on use, as a measure of our impact. This knowledge is important, as it can help us plan for the future and focus our resources on the supporting the needs of researchers, the government and industry to tackle climate change.”
Heath Marks AAF’s Chief Executive Officer says “There is a great opportunity to provide richer reporting, impact tracking and usage statistics about NCRIS facilities through using trust and identity.
“The AAF is working with the national research infrastructure community to build a Trust and Identity Framework. As the national digital research infrastructure for trust and identity, we are here to support the community and provide expertise in the development of a coordinated approach across the NCRIS ecosystem.”
National research infrastructure’s impact revealed through trust and identity
As a national digital infrastructure and a trust and identity capability, the AAF is developing a Trust and Identity Framework to support Australia’s national research infrastructure and its users.
By partnering with ACCESS-NRI we are exploring the underpinnings for addressing the challenge for national research infrastructure, understanding the identity of users and report on usage across service and organisational boundaries.
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Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre
AAF has partnered with the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre exploring options to provide seamless and secure access to their supercomputing service using federated identities.
The Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre is one of two Tier-1 high-performance computing facilities in Australia. Its primary function is to accelerate scientific research for the benefit of the nation. Pawsey’s service and expertise in supercomputing, data, cloud services and visualisation enables research across a variety of fields including astronomy, life sciences, medicine, energy, resources and artificial intelligence.
Pawsey’s supercomputing systems play a critical role, for a wide range of research disciplines and features as an important part of many researchers’ workflows. This Incubator will raise the security profile of Pawsey and provide a single user account across their ecosystem. The Pawsey Incubator is a foundational building block in trust and identity for national research infrastructure and plays a critical role in the implementation of trust and identity across the sector.
Microscopy Australia
AAF has partnered with Microscopy Australia exploring impact tracking through persistent identifiers (PIDs).
Microscopy Australia are a consortium of university-based microscopy facilities that more than 3,500 researchers across Australia use each year. They aim to empower Australian science and innovation by making advanced microscopes accessible to all researchers.
One of the greatest challenges in research is to connect and report on distributed services and this incubator explores how richer reporting, impact tracking and usage data can be provided through ORCID iDs and PIDs across national research infrastructure.
National Imaging Facility
AAF has partnered with the National Imaging Facility (NIF) exploring improved access and collaboration for complex multi-site human imaging projects and medical trials using sensitive data.
NIF is Australia’s advanced imaging network, and provides open access to flagship imaging equipment, tools, data and analysis. NIF aims to maintain Australia’s world leading role in advanced imaging technology and make its capabilities accessible to all Australian medical researchers to solve challenges across research and industry. They enable research in areas such as mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), epilepsy and melanoma. NIF are critical to research translation, clinical trials and the commercialisation of medical products.
As one of AAF’s Trust and Identity Pathfinder Incubators, we have been working with NIF on enhancing their access — providing NIF partners, institutional researchers and external users with the opportunity for improved access and collaboration when undertaking complex, multi-site human imaging projects such as national clinical trials that use sensitive data.
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If you would like to discuss trust and identity for your organisation, please contact us and one of our project managers will be in contact.
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