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VeRG - Visualisation, e-Research and Grid Lab…

The VeRG lab is a group within the School of IT at JCU is focused on the development of IT tools, methods and practical implementations of distributed computing and remote collaboration. E-research is research that is carried out in highly distributed network environments, often using immense data sets that require high performance (HPC), grid computing or advanced visualization to interpret. E-Research is developing rapidly and is an area of intense research and development across the world. The concepts of e-Research are ideally suited to regional universities such as JCU because the researchers work in a virtual way that is independent of distance of location.

VeRG contains a number of core projects and collaborates extensively within JCU and with partners across Australia and Internationally. While we are focused on supporting any application area, we are particularly interested in supporting research and activities that are relevant to North Queensland and Tropical regions in general.

The VeRG group work closely with the staff, and have a long-term involvement with the JCU High Performance Computing unit and other National HPC centres such as APAC and QPSF. In addition to HPC the VeRG group are developing an array data and visualisation Grid technologies. JCU partnered with the Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Foundation in 2002 to build just the second Access Grid node in Australia. Access Grids are a form of life size, multi-way video conferencing that permit not just the collaboration of people but also data and visualisation on the Grid

Current VeRG Academic Staff

Ian Atkinson (Ian.Atkinson@jcu.edu.au)

Current VeRG Lab Students:

PhD Students

	Nigel Sim (Nigel.Sim@jcu.edu.au): Applications of Grid and Distributed computing (in collaboration with A/Prof Danny Coomans, SMP and SIDA group).
	Trina Myers (Trina.Myers@jcu.edu.au): Application of Semantic Grid technologies to the techno-economic analysis of Virtual Organisations. (in collaboration with Prof Bill Lavery)
	Gilles Gigan (Gilles.Gigan@jcu.edu.au): Middleware for Sensor Networks, remote system control

Masters

	Dianna Hardy (Dianna.Hardy@jcu.edu.au): Distributed Data Bases and e-Research applied to Marine Archaeology (in collaboration with Dr David Roe, School of Anthropology and Archaeology)
	Peter Marendy (Peter.Marendy@jcu.edu.au): Grid scheduling for robotic telescopes (with Dr Carl Pennypacker, LBNL, Berkley and A/Prof Graham White, JCU Center of Astronomy)

Honours

Matt Wyatt: Simple interfaces and builders for Digital Libraries.

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