Supporting Characterisation Communities with Interactive HPC -September 2019 - Science Gateways 2019 Conference WilsonLance 2019 <div>Abstract—The Characterisation VL is an Australian nationally</div><div>funded virtual laboratory focused on bringing together the</div><div>national community around their research data and software.</div><div>Principally this means imaging techniques including optical</div><div>microscopes. CT, MRI, Cryo-Electron microscopy and other</div><div>non-traditional techniques. As it turns out Characterisation is</div><div>very general, but does have two principal commonalities:</div><div>1. Data sets are getting larger every day (CryoEM ~2-</div><div>5TB per dataset, LLSM ~1-10TB per dataset). They</div><div>are becoming too large for the average workstation</div><div>and difficult for enterprise IT providers within</div><div>universities.</div><div>2. Many data processing tools take the form of desktop</div><div>applications, requiring interactivity and input from</div><div>domain experts.</div><div>Rather than building a dedicated web interface to a single</div><div>workflow, the CVL has chosen to provide access to a virtual</div><div>laboratory with all of the techniques needed by the range of</div><div>characterisation communities. In this demonstration we will</div><div>show how easy access to virtual laboratories (science gateway)</div><div>has impacted the Australian characterisation community as well</div><div>as explaining the first and second generations of architecture,</div><div>used and how it can be reused by other computing facilities to</div><div>benefit their users.</div>