Collaborations

Collaborative links

MeSsAGE Lab staff have a number of active collaborations, as summarised below:

International Collaborations

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PRAGMA Monash University is a core member of the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly, and have been active since 2003. MeSsAGE Lab hosted PRAGMA4 in Melbourne in 2003, and has hosted PRIME students since 2004. Many of our case studies are run on PRAGMA Grid, and we are actively involved in the Resources Working group. PRAGMA underpins our involvement in the PRIME  student exchange program, in which UCSD undergraduate students spend a northern hemisphere summer in MeSsAGE Lab working on a collaborative research project.
NCSA Monash is an international affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
OERC MeSsAGE Lab staff collaborate with the Oxford eResearch Centre on a number of projects, at both the middleware and applications levels. Oxford hosts a Nimrod portal which is used for UK based applications studies. A very strong collaboration concerns the Integrated Biology group around modelling of cardiac myocytes.
UCSD MeSsAGE Lab staff collaborate with various academic units at UCSD, including CalIT2, SDSC and the Department of Bioengineering. These collaborations cover both middleware and applications of grid systems. We have recently implemented the MURPA  project in which Australian Computer Science students spend a southern hemisphere summer working on a research project at USCD. MURPA is the twin of the PRIME project mentioned above.
WESC MeSsAGE Lab collaborated with staff at the Welsh e-Science Center. Jointly with WESC we have applied Nimrod to radio-therapy planning for cancer treatment
Cranfield University MeSsAGE Lab has collaborated with a team led by Professor Mark Savill from Cranfield University. Together with his colleague, Dr Karl Jenkins they have developed systems that model flame kernel growth in turbulent flows in aircraft engines.
UvA MeSsAGE Lab has collaborated with University of Amsterdam on use of Nimrod to model bio medical applications
IBM Together with IBM we have developed a parallel debugger plugin for Eclipse under the PTP program.
University of Zurich Significant research has been undertaken by MeSsAGE Lab, University of Zurich and UCSD into the execution of GAMESS or other experiments via the Nimrod Toolkit, permitting the easy setup and distribution of parameter sweeps and optimizations on computational grids.

National Collaborations

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MeSsAGE Lab has had a lengthy collaboration with the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing and its national affiliates APAC and now ARCS  who have supported research into various aspects of Nimrod development and application

The Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative is a relatively new organisation that is closely associated with Monash eResearch initiatives.

Deakin University  along with Queensland University of Technology , and RMIT University  joined with Monash in a new national enterprise Grid, in 2007 under ARC LIEF funding.

Monash Collaborations

David Abramson is Associate Director of MeRC  and MeSsAGE Lab is very involved in the eResearch Centre program. MeRC's role under Prof Paul Bonnington is to build collaborations between research disciplines, nuture e-Research developments and to build bridges between researchers and service providers. Nurturing development of e-Research and GRID technologies is a specific aim of MeRC. MeSsAGE Lab technologies have been deployed in 7 Monash faculties with applications in drug design, climate science, electro-chemistry, artificial intelligence, econometrics, protein structure determination, microscopy and mechanical engineering – to name recent activities.