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SUMMARY:KEYNOTE 6: The evolution of the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud - respo
 nding to the demands of multi-disciplinary national research in unpreceden
 ted times.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20211203T090000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Carmel Walsh (ARDC)\nThe Nectar Research Cloud has b
 een supporting Australian national research since 2012. In  the last 18 mo
 nths the ARDC has doubled Nectar’s national capacity and increased its  
 investment in leading-edge technology. This has enabled ARDC Nectar to be 
 flexible in responding to changing research demands and challenges during 
 the COVID-19 Pandemic.\n\nThe talk will highlight how we have approached s
 ignificant growth in demand\, completing a comprehensive refresh program w
 hilst also maintaining high levels of service provision with\ncontinual se
 rvice improvement\, designing and scaling new services for national benefi
 t and trialling and testing innovative technology at scale\, ensuring we h
 ave a responsive and adaptive national research cloud for an increasingly 
 digital research ecosystem. \n\nARDC has built a large community through o
 ur ARDC Research Platforms projects that are developing virtual research e
 nvironments\, enabling us to design\, test and scale these new services wi
 th this extended community. The new and improved infrastructure\, services
  and capabilities of Nectar will support the requirements of research plat
 forms for image processing\, machine learning\, drones\, genomics\, ecosys
 tems science\, and sensitive data.\n\nI will also discuss some case studie
 s in which we were quickly able to provision urgently needed additional co
 mpute for Covid-19 modelling and responses to the pandemic in a time where
  supply chain issues and economic pressures made it more challenging.\n\nh
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