 Good afternoon everyone and welcome to this webinar today Which is a question and answer session for the open call for ARDC storage and compute projects My name is Jerry Ryder. I work with the Australian Research Data Commons and I'm based in Adelaide So without any further ado, I will hand over to Paul Coddington Who's associate director of research cloud and storage for the Australian Research Data Commons Over to you Paul Thanks, Jerry. So good afternoon everyone. Thanks for coming along to this webinar. I'll just I'll just give a very brief sort of overview and context around the Discovery projects and then basically the rest of the time will be answering questions So first of all, I'm representing Ian Duncan who's the director of the the storage and compute infrastructure component of ARDC. He's unable to make it today. He's on leave So I'll be doing the presentation answering the questions as best I can So a little bit of context. I think hopefully most of you will know this but ARDC is a relatively new organization We were brought together essentially in the 1st of July last year from existing organizations, ANS, Nectar and RDS And so much of the work that's been done so far is to try to carry on the existing services that those organizations were providing but also to try to come up with a Sort of plan and a strategy and a plan for this new entity for what we would be doing in the future So part of that for the storage and compute component in particular also encompasses a capital planning exercise where you received or ARDC received a total of 70 million dollars of capital funding in last year and we need to come up with a plan for what we what we do with that so so as part of that overall ARDC planning and particular planning around the capital investment The view was that ARDC wanted to Understand some or answer some questions or understand a few things a bit better before we finalized our capital planning So one of the motivations for the discovery program was essentially here is some Here's some information and some or here's some questions that we want more information and some answers to And we'd like the sector to help us with providing that that information of those answers to the questions as To help inform our capital plan now planning going forward So you may be aware there are two different areas. There's the data and services Stream which was announced a bit earlier and then The storage and compute one which I'll be talking about today. There was a webinar about the data and services one last week I believe So Those two are quite different so the data and services one has a number of fairly high-level questions that we're looking to find out more about and Projects that can be pitched for those Essentially can address multiple questions So essentially it's up to the to the proponents to come up with a proposal that can somehow address some of those questions or Many of those questions. It can be multiple Projects answering a single question. There can be multiple questions answered by a single project And there's a fairly large number of projects That could be funded So the ones here are quite different to that. We have basically 11 Fairly specific questions about sparely fairly specific topics and we just want to pick one one project proposal To address each one of those questions So it's so the the so it's a bit different process than the than the other one I Hopefully you've seen the the document that it outlines The questions and bit of the context and That's pretty much all I wanted to say I guess