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research CV

selected press and quotes with industry partners

selected invited presentations

  • OpenInfra Live: OpenStack in Academia. OpenInfra Live. 2022. https://www.stackhpc.com/openinfra-academia.html  (video)

  • Passing on Reinventing the Wheel: Developing methods and reducing barriers to inter- and intra-disciplinary research output translation, 2020 ESIP Summer Meeting Plenary – panellist. Jane Wyngaard, Lindsay Barbieri, Jens Klump, Peter Webley, Steve Quenette, Chris Jack, Anthony Arendt. 

  • Global experiences with digital research infrastructure federations, ARDC Storage and Compute Infrastructure Summit, Brisbane 2019

  • Institutional Directions, ARDC Data and Services Summit, Brisbane 2019

  • Climate change, Brain and Imaging Research on Openstack (Keynote), OpenStack Summit, Sydney 2017

  • Ceph as Monash University’s research data engine, Red Hat summit, Boston 2017

  • Visualisation: from Cloud to CAVE, O. Kaluza, S. Quenette, International Conference on Seismic Imaging, Inversion & Visualization, Haikou, Hainan Island, China, January 2017

  • Cloud Infrastructure to Help Researchers Build 21st Century Microscopes, OpenStack Summit, Barcelona, 2016. https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/7498/cloud-infrastructure-to-help-researchers-build-21st-century-microscopes  (video)

  • An environment for 21st century microscopes (Keynote). Dell Edu CIO seminar, Chengdu China, 2016

  • Scale and performance: Servicing the Fabric and the Workshop. CSIRO CSS & eResearch Annual Conference, Melbourne 2016

  • Software, complexity & reuse... Robust-to-experimental codes for geodynamics. Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics – Strategic planning workshop, Pasadena USA, 2009

  • An approach to software composability, and its importance to enabling multiscale - multiphysics geodynamics, University of Minnesota, USA, 2008

  • A roles-based approach to enabling multi-scale, multi-physics computational geophysics codes, ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research, New Jersey, USA, 2006

commissioned reports

  • Manos, Steven, Spear, Kieran, Martinez, Paula A., Quenette, Steve, Gray, Mark, White, Andrew, & ARCOS Working Group. (2020). A National View of Containers and Kubernetes in Research: Shared challenges and opportunities. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4083297

  • ​Soo, Ai-Lin, Janke, Andrew, Betbeder-Matibet, Luc, Francis, Rhys, Giugni, Stephen, & Quenette, Steve. (2020, June 1). Research Data Culture Conversation - Paper 1 "A Summary of the Challenge". Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3887434

  • ​Soo, Ai-Lin, Janke, Andrew, Betbeder-Matibet, Luc, Francis, Rhys, Giugni, Stephen, & Quenette, Steve. (2020, June 1). Research Data Culture Conversation - Paper 2 "A Development Response". Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3887399

  • ​Quenette, Steve, Coddington, Paul, Gray, Mark, Manos, Steven, & Fraser, Ryan. (2020). ARCOS establishment roadmap: A Nationally Coordinated Approach to Supporting Containers, Kubernetes, and Multi-Cloud Interoperability (Version 1.2). http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3990834

  • Quenette, S. (2019). ARDC Infrastructure Discovery Report: Global Experiences Digital Research Infrastructure Federations. (1st ed.) Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3563246

awarded grants

  • ARDC Nectar Research Cloud infrastructure to support ARDC SeRP Platform project - Monash ARDC Nectar Research Cloud infrastructure for SeRP. Quenette, Steve (PCI), Bonnington, Paul (CI), Aung, Swe Win (CI), Revote, Jerico (CI). ARDC Infrastructure. 24/03/22 → 30/06/23. $150,000 award + $150,000 co-investment

  • ARDC Nectar Research Cloud infrastructure to support ARDC machine learning users - Monash GPU and large memory servers for the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud. Quenette, Steve (PCI), Aung, Swe Win (CI), Bonnington, Paul (CI). ARDC Infrastructure. 24/03/22 → 30/06/23. $270,000 award + $270,000 co-investment

  • Pioneering security of research applications using BlueField Data Processing Units (DPUs). Quenette, S., Aung, S. W., Tan, C., Bretel, A., Ramachandran, S. & Roztal, A. NVIDIA. 1/11/20 → 30/05/21. 

  • ARDC Data Retention Project Phase 1: Existing Collections. Quenette, S., Soo, A., Kannan, A., Groenewegen, D., Bonnington, P. & Goscinski, W. ARDC Infrastructure. 13/10/20 → 30/06/23. $568,000 awards + $550,00 co-contribution.

  • Computational capability of SAM maintaining Underworld and associated ecosystems. Moresi, Louis N. (PCI), Quenette, Steve (CI), Mansour, John (CI), Capitanio, Fabio (CI), Farrington, Rebecca (CI). Auscope. 1/07/20 → 30/06/22. $954,472 award

  • Auscope partnership in the Australian Scalable Drones Cloud (ASDC). Quenette, Steve (PCI), Clarke, Rohan (CI), Glasgow, Robert (CI), Kaluza, Owen (AI). Auscope. 1/07/20 → 30/06/22. $123,334 award

  • Establishing Australia’s Scalable Drone Cloud (ASDC). Quenette, Steve (PCI), Clarke, Rohan (CI), Rawling, Timothy (CI), Guru, Siddeswara (CI), Klump, Jens (CI), and Brown, Tim (CI). ARDC Platform https://doi.org/10.47486/PL103. 3/02/20→ 3/02/23. $855,000 award + $855,000 cash co-investment. 

  • 2nd Generation of the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud at Monash. Quenette, Steve (PCI), Aung, Swe Win (CI), Soo, Ai-Lin (CI), Goscinski, Wojtek (CI), Bonnington, Paul (CI), and Revote, Jerico (CI). ARDC Infrastructure. 1/01/20 → 31/12/22. $1,022,000.00 award + $678,000 cash co-contribution

  • Environments to Accelerate Machine Learning Based Discovery. Goscinski, Wojtek (PCI), Abramson, David (CI), Padmanabhan, Komathy (CI), Ge, Zongyuan (CI), Gray, Mark (CI), Backhaus, Ann (CI), Williams, Allan (CI), Carroll, Jake (CI), Ward, Nigel (CI), Quenette, Steve (CI), Bonnington, Paul (CI). ARDC Platform https://doi.org/10.47486/PL107. 3/02/20 → 3/02/22. $484,800 award + $484,800 co-investment

  • ACCS: The Australian Characterisation Commons at Scale. Goscinski, Wojtek (PCI), Bonnington, Paul (CI), Quenette, Steve (CI), Abbott, David (CI), Abramson, David (CI), Ali, Rubbiya (CI), Andrade, Jason (CI), Barth, Markus (CI), Betbeder-Matibet, Luc (CI), Beves, Jonathan (CI), Bond, Charles (CI), Boyd, Benjamin (CI), Bryant, Gary (CI), Cairney, Julie (CI), Colmer, Tim (CI), Egan, Gary (CI), Etheridge, Joanne (CI), Frazier, Jane (CI), Galloway, Graham (CI), Gentle, Ian (CI), Gilbert, Andrew (CI), Gray, Mark (CI), Hilder, Emily (CI), Janke, Andrew (CI), Johnstone, Tom (CI), Kemp, Carina (CI), Lay, Peter (CI), Love, Steven (CI), Martinez, Paula Andrea (CI), Mehnert, Andrew (CI), Moffat, Brad (CI), Mulvaney, Paul (CI), Raston, Colin Llewellyn (CI), Thordarson, Pall (CI), Weyland, Matthew (CI), Oijen, Antoine Van (CI), Sexton, Patrick (CI), Sullivan, Ryan (CI), Ward, Nigel (CI), Warr, Gregory (CI), Wepf, Roger (CI), Wilson, Lance (CI), Whisstock, James (CI), Yen, Lisa (CI). ARDC Platform https://doi.org/10.47486/PL101. 7/02/20 → 7/02/23. $1,980,000 award + $1,980,000 co-investment

  • Role of Institutions in a National Data Commons. Quenette, Steve (PCI), Groenewegen, David (CI), Ennor, Sandra (CI), Dart, Stephen (CI), Kannan, and Anitha (CI). ARDC. 1/09/19 → 31/01/20. $50,000 award.

  • Global experiences digital research infrastructure federations. Quenette, Steve (PCI), Goscinski, Wojtek (CI), Bonnington, Paul (CI). ARDC. 1/07/19 → 31/10/19. $50,000 award. 

  • Machine learning infrastructure deployed at scale: understanding requirements, demand, impact and international best practice. Goscinski, Wojtek (PCI), Bonnington, Paul (CI), Quenette, Steve (CI), Padmanabhan, Komathy (CI). 1/06/19 → 31/10/19. ARDC. $50,000 award. 

  • Understanding and Creating Instrument Generated Data Collections. Goscinski, Wojtek (PCI), Hassan, Amr (CI), Quenette, Steve (CI), Mehnert, Andrew (CI), Abramson, David (CI). 8/08/19 → 21/10/19. ARDC. $50,000 award.

  • Developing an Australian-scale Characterisation Data Capture, Collection, and Collaboration Outline. Goscinski, Wojtek (PCI), Bonnington, Paul (CI), Quenette, Steve (CI). 1/06/19 → 31/10/19. ARDC. $50,000 award. 

  • Monash's Smart Energy City. German Burbano (PCI), Tim Hoban (CI), Andres Molnar (CI), Tony Fullelove (CI), Eloy Gonzalez Ortega, Juan Prieto Vivanco (CI), Mariano Ortega de Mues (CI), Reza Razzaghi (CI), David Barnes (CI), Zahraa Said Emam Ammar Abdallah (CI), Ariel Liebman (CI), Carsten Rudolph (CI), Giovani Polizzi (CI), Behrooz Bahrani (CI), Manos Varvarigos (CI), Christoph Bergmeir (CI), Kaveh Khalilpour (CI), Joseph Liu (CI), Ross Gawler (CI), Steve Quenette (CI). 01/10/2018 → 30/03/2022. ARENA. $2,974,162 award + $3,640,000 cash co-contribution

  • The Characterisation Data Enhanced Virtual Laboratory. Goscinski, Wojtek (PCI), Quenette, Steve (CI), Bonnington, Paul (CI). 1/12/17 → 31/03/20. Nectar Virtual Laboratories.

  • Research Cloud Core Services - WP01A. Manos, Steve (PCI), Botten, Lindsay Charles (CI), and Quenette, Steve (CI). NeCTAR Research Cloud Surge of Investment. 1/07/14 → 30/06/21. $6,258,378 award

  • Research Cloud National Neutron upgrade - WP01B. Quenette, Steve (PCI), Bethwaite, Blair (CI), Aung, Swe Win (CI), Revote, Jerico (CI), Bindoff, Nathaniel Lee (CI), Botten, Lindsay Charles (CI), Cook, Rob (CI), Gibson, Ian (CI), Hobson, Mary (CI), and Manos, Steve (CI). NeCTAR Research Cloud Surge of Investment. 1/07/14 → 30/06/15. $240,000 award

  • Research Cloud National Memory expansion - WP01C. Quenette, Steve (PCI), Bethwaite, Blair (CI), Aung, Swe Win (CI), Revote, Jerico (CI), Bindoff, Nathaniel Lee (CI), Botten, Lindsay Charles (CI), Cook, Rob (CI), Gibson, Ian (CI), Hobson, Mary (CI), and Manos, Steve (CI). NeCTAR Research Cloud Surge of Investment. 1/07/14 → 30/06/15. $512,507 award

  • Research Cloud Monitoring & Reporting - WP02. Botten, Lindsay Charles (CI), Bindoff, Nathaniel Lee (CI), Cook, Rob (CI), Gibson, Ian (CI), Hobson, Mary (CI), Quenette, Steve (CI), and Manos, Steve (CI). NeCTAR Research Cloud Surge of Investment. 1/07/14 →30/06/15. $376,000 award

  • Research Cloud Security Monitoring & Incident Response - WP03. Gibson, Ian (CI), Bindoff, Nathaniel Lee (CI), Botten, Lindsay Charles (CI), Cook, Rob (CI), Hobson, Mary (CI), Quenette, Steve (CI), and Manos, Steve (CI). NeCTAR Research Cloud Surge of Investment. 1/07/14 → 30/06/15. $228,000 award

  • Research Cloud Quality Assurance of Nectar VMs & Reference Stacks - WP04. Quenette, Steve (CI), and Bethwaite, Blair (CI). NeCTAR Research Cloud Surge of Investment. 1/07/14 → 30/06/15. $98,000 award

  • Research Cloud Continuous Improvement - WP05. Gibson, Ian (CI), Bindoff, Nathaniel Lee (CI), Botten, Lindsay Charles (CI), Cook, Rob (CI), Hobson, Mary (CI), Quenette, Steve (CI), and Manos, Steve (CI). NeCTAR Research Cloud Surge of Investment. 1/07/14 →30/06/15. $114,000 award

  • Research Cloud User Support & Distributed Help Desk - WP06. Cook, Rob (PCI), Bindoff, Nathaniel Lee (CI), Botten, Lindsay Charles (CI), Gibson, Ian (CI), Hobson, Mary (CI), Manos, Steve (CI), Quenette, Steve (CI), and Stringfellow, Neil (CI). NeCTAR Research Cloud Surge of Investment. 1/07/14 → 30/06/21. $2,791,422 award

  • Research Cloud Application Orchestration - WP07A. Manos, Steve (CI), Bindoff, Nathaniel Lee (CI), Botten, Lindsay Charles (CI), Cook, Rob (CI), Gibson, Ian (CI), Hobson, Mary (CI), and Quenette, Steve (CI). NeCTAR Research Cloud Surge of Investment. 1/07/14 → 30/06/15. $136,000 award

  • Research Cloud Trove - Database as a Service - WP07B. Quenette, Steve (PCI), Bethwaite, Blair (CI), Revote, Jerico (CI), Bindoff, Nathaniel Lee (CI), Botten, Lindsay Charles (CI), Cook, Rob (CI), Gibson, Ian (CI), Hobson, Mary (CI), and Manos, Steve (CI). NeCTAR Research Cloud Surge of Investment. 1/07/14 → 30/06/15. $136,650 award

  • Research Cloud Storage Services - WP07C. Botten, Lindsay Charles (CI), Bindoff, Nathaniel Lee (CI), Cook, Rob (CI), Gibson, Ian (CI), Hobson, Mary (CI), Quenette, Steve (CI), and Manos, Steve (CI). NeCTAR Research Cloud Surge of Investment. 1/07/14 →30/06/15. $157,250 award

  • Research Cloud Elastic Data Service - WP07.5. Botten, Lindsay Charles (CI), Bindoff, Nathaniel Lee (CI), Cook, Rob (CI), Gibson, Ian (CI), Hobson, Mary (CI), Quenette, Steve (CI), and Manos, Steve (CI). NeCTAR Research Cloud Surge of Investment. 1/07/14 →30/06/15. $86,000 award

  • Research Cloud Resource Allocation process & Management System - WP08 (CRAMS). Quenette, Steve (PCI), Barney, Sebastian (CI), Bindoff, Nathaniel Lee (CI), Botten, Lindsay Charles (CI), Cook, Rob (CI), Gibson, Ian (CI), Hobson, Mary (CI), and Manos, Steve (CI). NeCTAR Research Cloud Surge of Investment. 1/07/14 → 30/06/15. $192,000 award

  • Research Cloud National Server Program cloudification - WP11. Manos, Steve (CI), Botten, Lindsay Charles (CI), Cook, Rob (CI), and Quenette, Steve (CI). NeCTAR Research Cloud Surge of Investment. 1/07/14 → 30/06/15. $135,000 award

  • Access to Data for Culture and Community Research (A1.6). Mary Hobson (PCI), Andrew Williams (CI), Ian Gibson (CI), Rob Cook (CI), Steve Manos (CI), Steve Quenette (CI). Research Data Services. Dec 2014 - Jun 16. $502,760 award

  • Image Publishing Data Service (A1.4). Wojtek Goscinski (PCI), Steve Manos (CI), Steve Quenette (CI), Paul Bonnington (CI), Rob Cook (CI), Ian Gibson (CI). Research Data Services. Dec 2014 - Jun 16. $502,758 award

  • Australian National Medical Research Data Storage Facility (ANMRDSF). Ian Gibson (PCI), Steve Quenette (CI), Steve Manos (CI), Rob Cook (CI), Mary Hobson (CI). Research Data Storage Initiative ReDS III Large Collections. May 2014 - Dec 2014. $1,811,780 award

  • Australian Coordinated Characterisation Data Space (ACCDS). Wojtek Goscinski (PCI), Steve Quenette (CI), Paul Bonnington (CI), Steve Manos (CI), Rob Cook (CI), Ian Gibson (CI). Research Data Storage Initiative ReDS III Large Collections. May 2014 - Dec 2014. $985,129 award

  • National Genomics Data Storage Facility (NGDSF). Steve Manos (PCI), Steve Quenette (CI), Rob Cook (CI), Ian Gibson (CI). Research Data Storage Initiative ReDS III Large Collections. May 2014 - Dec 2014. $1,811,781 award

  • A longitudinal study of food cost across Victorian communities using a cluster randomised design. Truby, H., Palermo, C., Quenette, S. & Sinha, K. Department of Health and Human Services (Victoria). 1/01/12 → 31/12/14. $337,000 award

  • Underworld on the Virtual Geophysics Laboratory (VGL). Ryan Fraser (PCI), Ben Evans (CI), Leslie Wyborn (CI), Louis Moresi (CI), Steve Quenette (CI). Nectar Virtual Laboratory. Jul 2012 - Jan 2013. $634,000 award + $62,500 cash co-contribution

  • Geology from Geophysics - a geophysics workflow for Underworld. Louis Moresi (PCI), Steve Quenette (CI), Paul Bonnington (CI), Fabio Capitanio (CI), Rebecca Farrington (CI), Dietmar Muller (CI), Patrice Rey (CI), Juan Carlos Alfonso (CI), and Craig O'Neill (CI). Nectar eResearch Tools. Jul 2012 - Dec 2014. $364,582 award

  • NeCTAR Research Cloud at Monash. Quenette, Steve (PCI), Bonnington, Paul (CI), Bethwaite, Blair (CI), Aung, Swe Win (CI), Revote, Jerico (CI), Bindoff, Nathaniel Lee (CI), Botten, Lindsay Charles (CI), Cook, Rob (CI), Gibson, Ian (CI), Hobson, Mary (CI), and Manos, Steve (CI). NeCTAR Research Cloud. 6/06/12 → 30/06/21. $7,993,995 award + $2144,475 cash co-investment

  • CVL: The Characterisation Virtual Laboratory: Research Environment for Exploring Inner Space. Goscinski, Wojtek (PCI), Bonnington, Paul (CI), Quenette, Steve (CI), Reutens, David C. (CI), Whisstock, James (CI), Ringer, Simon P. (CI), Senden, Tim (CI), Egan, Gary (CI), Ordidge, Roger (CI), Kilpatrick, Trevor John (CI), Lawrence, Michael Colin (CI). 1/06/12 → 30/06/14. Nectar Virtual Laboratories. $1,618,108 award

  • VicNode - the Victorian Node of RDSI. Sendur Kathir (PCI), Liz Sonnenburg (CI), Steve Manos (CI), Ian Smith (CI), Paul Bonnington (CI), Steve Quenette (CI). Research Data Storage Initiative. Dec 2012 to 30/6/2021. $4,701,884 award

  • VicNode - a Research Data Storage Infrastrusture (RDSI) project.  Sendur Kathir (PCI), Liz Sonnenburg (CI), Steve Manos (CI), Ian Smith (CI), Paul Bonnington (CI), Steve Quenette (CI). Victorian State Government - Deptartment of Business & Innovation. Oct 2012 - Jun 2014. $500,000 award

  • The Auscope Simulator - Victorian Node / AuScope Simulation, Analysis & Modelling (SAM) @ Monash. Louis Moresi (PCI), Steve Quenette (CI), Fabio Capitanio (CI), Steven Micklethwaite (CI). Auscope. Mar 2007 - Jun 2020.  $2,945,709 award + $680,000 cash co-contribution

published open source software

journal publications

  • Mansour, J., Giordani, J., Moresi, L., Beucher, R., Kaluza, O.,  Velic, M., Farrington, R., Quenette, S., Beall, A., 2020, Underworld2:  Python Geodynamics Modelling for Desktop, HPC and Cloud, Journal of Open  Source Software, 5(47), 1797, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01797

  • Liu, H., Giroux, B., Harris, L. B., Quenette, S. M., & Mansour, J. (2018). Numerical analysis of the role of radiogenic basement on temperature distribution in the St. Lawrence Lowlands, Québec. Geothermal Energy, 6, [30]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40517-018-0115-2

  • Revote, J., Watson-Haigh, N. S., Quenette, S., Bethwaite, B., McGrath, A., & Shang, C. A. (2017). Development of a cloud-based Bioinformatics Training Platform. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 18(3), 537-544. https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbw032

  • O'Neill, C., Lenardic, A., Weller, M., Moresi, L., Quenette, S., & Zhang, S. (2016). A window for plate tectonics in terrestrial planet evolution? Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 255, 80-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2016.04.002

  • Palermo, C. E., Perera-Schulz, D., Kannan, A., Truby, H., Shiell, A. M., Emilda, S., & Quenette, S. M. (2014). Development and Evaluation of an iPad App for Measuring the Cost of a Nutritious Diet. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 4(50), 1 - 6. https://doi.org/10.2196/mhealth.3314

  • Meyer, G. R., Aragao, D., Mudie, N. J., Caradoc-Davies, T. T., McGowan, S., Bertling, P. J., Groenewegen, D., Quenette, S. M., Bond, C. S., Buckle, A. M., & Androulakis, S. G. (2014). Operation of the Australian Store.Synchrotron for macromolecular crystallography. Acta Crystallographica Section D: Biological Crystallography, 70(10), 2510 - 2519. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1399004714016174

  • S. Quenette, L. Moresi, D. Abramson, Y. Xi., Underworld-GT applied to Guangdong, a tool to explore the geothermal potential of the crust, Journal of Earth Science. 01/2015; 26(1):78-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-015-0517-z

  • Rawling, T., Sandiford, M., Beardsmore, G., Quenette, S. M., Goyen, S., & Harrison, B. (2013). Thermal insulation and geothermal targeting, with specific reference to coal-bearing basins. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 60(8), 817-829. https://doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2013.864999

  • Watson-Haigh, N. S., Shang, C. A., Haimel, M., Kostadima, M., Loos, R., Deshpande, N., Duesing, K., Li, X., McGrath, A., McWilliam, S., Michnowicz, S., Moolhuijzen, P., Quenette, S. M., Revote, J., Tyagi, S., & Schneider, M. V. (2013). Next-generation sequencing: a challenge to meet the increasing demand for training workshops in Australia. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 14(5), 563 - 574. https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbt022

  • Patrick Sunter, Bill Appelbe, Steve Quenette, Louis Moresi. Scientific Software Frameworks and Grid Computing, International Federation for Information Processing Digital Library, 2010

  • Quenette, S., & Hodkinson, L. (2010). StgDomain - Scalable parallel domain software components for particle-in-cell finite element methods. Concurrency Computation: Practice and Experience, 22(12), 1593 - 1603. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.1508

  • D. R. Stegman, L. Moresi, R. Turnbull, J. Giordani, P. Sunter, A. Lo and S. Quenette, gLucifer: next generation visualization framework for high-performance computational geodynamics, Visual Geosciences, Volume 13, Number 1 / July, 2008, pg 71-84

  • Moresi, L-N., Quenette, S., Lemiale, V., Meriaux, C. A. M. D., Appelbe, W. F., & Muhlhaus, H. B. (2007). Computational approaches to studying non-linear dynamics of the crust and mantle. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 163, 69 - 82.

  • Appelbe, B., Moresi, L., Quenette, S., & Sunter, P. (2007). Scientific software frameworks and grid computing: Improving programming productivity. In P. W. Gaffney, & J. C. T. Pool (Eds.), Grid-Based Problem Solving Environments: IFIP TC2/ WG 2.5 Working Conference on Grid-Based Problem Solving Environments: Implications for Development and Deployment of Numerical Software (pp. 401-413). (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing; Vol. 239). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73659-4_24

  • Quenette, S. M., Appelbe, B. F., Gurnis, M., Hodkinson, L. J., Moresi, L., & Sunter, P. D. (2004). An investigation into design for performance and code maintainability in high performance computing. ANZIAM Journal, 46(5 ELECTRONIC SUPPL.).

refereed conference publications

  • Grischa R Meyer, Steve Androulakis, Philip Bertling, Ashley Buckle, Wojtek James Goscinski, David Groenewegen, Chris Hines, Anitha Kannan, Sheena McGowan, Stevan Quenette, Jason Rigby, Patrick Splawa-Neyman, James M Wettenhall, David Aragao, Tom Caradoc-Davies, Nathan Mudie, Charles Bond (2017): The Australian Store.Synchrotron Data Management Service for Macromolecular Crystallography. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Control Systems (ICALEPCS 2015) . Melbourne. https://doi.org/10.4225/03/571DEDB138F50

  • Quenette, S., Moresi, L-N., Sunter, P., & Appelbe, B. (2007). Explaining StGermain: An aspect oriented environment for building extensible computational mechanics modeling software. In T. M. Pinkston (Ed.), Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2007 IPDPS 2007 (pp. 1 - 8). IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370400

white papers and reports (non-commissioned)

  • Soo, Ai-Lin; Quenette, Steve; Francis, Rhys (2022): Research Data Culture Conversation - A Macro View of Retained Australian Academic Research Data. Monash University. Report. https://doi.org/10.26180/20235570.v3

  • Quenette, Steve; O'Neill, Craig (2010): AuScope Geothermal Demonstrators - Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia. Monash University. Report. https://doi.org/10.26180/5f4dc6d0a47b3

  • Quenette, Steve; Kirkby, Alison (2010): AuScope Geothermal Demonstrators - Cooper Basin, South Australia / Queensland, Australia. Monash University. Report. https://doi.org/10.26180/5f4dd65272327

  • Quenette, Steve; Rawling, Timothy; Musson, Alex; Sandiford, Mike (2010): AuScope Geothermal Demonstrators - Latrobe Valley, Victoria, Australia. Monash University. Report. https://doi.org/10.26180/5f4dc2c4e94e0

open publications, blogs and figures

refereed presentations

  • Amarapathy, Samitha; Hirimuthugoda, Rohan; Quenette, Steve; Aung, Swe Win; Revote, Jerico; Maslin, Dan; Messina, Ed. Cloud Vulnerability Reporting Dashboard. Presentation. eResearch Australasia 2022.

  • Soo, Ai Lin; Fisch, Eva; McClean, Kerry; Splawa-Neyman, Patrick; Quenette, Steve; Groenewegen, David. Insights into practice vs theory – research data management and sharing. Presentation. eResearch Australasia 2022.

  • Clarke, R. H., Klump, J., Guru, S., Micklethwaite, S., Morris, B., Quenette, S. M., et al. (2021). Building Australia’s Scalable Drone Cloud. Presented at the RPAS in Australian Skies 2021, Canberra, ACT, Australia: Australian Association for Unmanned Systems. Retrieved from https://aaus.org.au/rpas-in-australian-skies-2021

  • Klump, J., Brown, T., Clarke, R., Glasgow, R., Micklethwaite, S., Guru, S., et al. (2021). Building Australia’s Scalable Drone Cloud (pp. EGU21-3820). Presented at the EGU General Assembly 2021, virtual: Copernicus Meetings. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-3820

  • Quenette, Steve; Ramachandran, Sudarshan; Roztal, Arik; Tan, Gin; Aung, Swe Win; Bretel, Adam (2020): Offloading the impact of security 
– piloting DPUs (eResearch Australasia 2020 presentation). Monash University. Media. https://doi.org/10.26180/13191065

  • Quenette, Steve; Ramachandran, Sudarshan; Roztal, Arik; Tan, Gin; Aung, Swe Win; Bretel, Adam (2020): Offloading the impact of security 
– piloting DPUs. Monash University. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.26180/13100477

  • Klump, J., Clarke, R., Micklethwaite, S., Guru, S., Morris, B., Quenette, S. M., et al. (2020). Building Australia’s Scalable Drone Cloud. In American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2020 (poster NH028-0005). virtual: American Geophysical Union. 

  • Rhys Francis, Ai-Lin Soo, Andrew Jenke, Luc BetBeder-Matibet, Stephen Giugni, Steve Quenette (2019). Developing an Effective Research Data Culture. C3DIS

  • Steve Quenette, Wojtek James Goscinski, Komathy Padmanabhan, Paul Bonnington. eResearch through Co-Design Implementing ISO 9001 at Monash eResearch. eResearch Australasia 2018

  • Komathy Padmanabhan, Steve Quenette, Anitha Kannan1, Paul Bonnington. Safe Havens – enabling data driven outcomes. eResearch Australasia, 2018

  • Catherine Nicholls, Nicholas McPhee, David Groenewegen, Neil Dickson, Adrian Tritschler, Steve Quenette, David Lam. Sentencing for MURDA. eResearch Australasia 2017

  • Moloney, G; Coddington, P; Quenette, S (2017). Openstack Clouds as Research Infrastructure. OpenStack Summit Sydney. https://www.openstack.org/videos/summits/sydney-2017/openstack-clouds-as-research-infrastructure (video)

  • Kannan, Anitha; Androulakis, Steve; R. Meyer, Grischa; Wettenhall, James; Rigby, Jason; Perry, Andrew; et al. (2016): Instrument Integration: the key to accessing Science Gateways. figshare. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.4225/03/579968B71BB73

  • Steve M. Quenette; Louis N. Moresi; David Abramson. Underworld results as a triple (shopping list, posterior, priors). American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2013

  • Yufei Xi; Yanxin Wang; David A. Yuen; Xiangyun Hu; Stevan Quenette; Shuang Liu; Tianyou Liu. Magnetic Imaging of the Curie Isothermal surface under Guangdong Province and its application in Guangdong geothermal modeling. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2013

  • S. Quenette. Guangdong: forward models, inversion and programming languages. International Workshop on Exploration & Development of Geothermal Resources in Guangdong China, June 30, 2013

  • Yufei Xi, Yanxin Wang, Steve Quenette, John Mansour, Xiangyun Hu, David A.Yuen, Geophysical modeling in Guangdong geothermal exploration. International Workshop on Exploration & Development of Geothermal Resources in Guangdong China, June 30, 2013

  • A. Kirkby, R. Fraser, S. Quenette. Virtual Geophysics Laboratory (VGL) version 1.1: Recent developments to incorporate 3D geological maps and thermal modelling using the Underworld software. 23rd International Geophysical Conference & Exhibition, Melbourne 11-14th August, 2013.

  • Cara Danis, Craig O’Neill and Steve Quenette. Assessing the calibration of the Sydney Basin thermal structure model - are shallow groundwater bores a good substitute for deeper measurements. ASEG Extended Abstracts 01/2013; 2013(1):1. DOI: 10.1071/ASEG2013ab022

  • S. Quenette, L. Moresi, C. O‘Neill, C. Danis.  The effects of temperature dependent conductivity on basin scale heat flow. Proceedings, Thirty-Seventh Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, California, January 30 - February 1, 2012

  • S. Quenette, L. Moresi and J. Mansour. Geothermal potential of the crust-models, models and more models. An International Workshop of Deep Geothermal Systems Wuhan, China,  June 29-30, 2012

  • Steve Quenette, Adam Beall, Ben Mather and Louis Moresi. Geothermal potential of the crust - the role of the underworld. Australian Geothermal Energy Conference, Sydney, Australia, Nov 14-16, 2012

  • Cara Danis, Craig O’Neill and Steve Quenette. Is it hot enough down there? Assessing geothermal potential in the Sydney-Gunnedah-Bowen Basin, Australian Geothermal Energy Conference, Sydney, Australia, Nov 14-16, 2012

  • Quenette, S. M.; O'Neill, C.; Moresi, L. N.; Danis, C. R.; Mansour, J. Underworld and multi-basin heat flow, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011

  • S. Quenette, O. Kaluza, W. Mason, L. Sutedja, T. Rawling, C. O'Neill, H. Xing, A. Kirkby, NCRIS outcomes delivered through interactive 3D-PDFs, eResearch Australasia, Brisbane, 2010

  • P. Sunter, W. Sharples, S. Quenette, W. Mason, J. Revote, Towards Reproducible Scientific Benchmarking Workflows in Geophysics: the CREDO Toolkit, eResearch Australasia, Brisbane, 2010

  • S. Quenette, D. Morrison, A. Thompson, Experiences in Enabling Digital Pathology for Research and Clinical Use in Victoria, HIC 2010: Proceedings; 18th Annual Health Informatics Conference: Informing the Business of Healthcare, 24-26 August 2010

  • Quenette, S. M.; Moresi, L. N. Models based experimentation: numerical modelling of 3D basin scale architecture heat & fluid flow.  American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010 (talk)

  • Wendy Mason, Steve Quenette, Darran Carey, Louis Moresi, ARCS Compute Grid Supporting Research Community Development: the Underworld Case Study, eResearch Australasia 2009

  • S. Quenette, D. Morrison, A. Thompson, and M. Rebbechi. Experiences in enabling digital pathology for research in Victoria, 3rd eResearch Australasia Conference, Manly, Australia, 2009

  • W. Mason, S. Quenette, D. Carey and L. Moresi.   ARCS Compute Grid Supporting Research Community Development: the Underworld Case Study. 3rd eResearch Australasia Conference, Manly, Australia, 2009

  • S. Quenette, L. Moresi. Collaborative Code Development with CIG. Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics: Results and Comments, Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics, 2009

  • Quenette S., Hodkinson L., Moresi L., Appelbe B. StGermain software environment for HPC and software maintenance.  An international workshop on Geodynamical Phenomena: From Field, Observational, Computational, Seismological and Rheological Perspectives, Suzdal, Russia, 2009

  • Quenette, S.  Software Reuse Targeted at Community Developed Simulation Models.  American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008

  • L. Hodkinson, S. Quenette, P. Sunter, C. Meriaux, B. Appelbe, Scalable 3D Decomposition Implementation for Finite Elements, APAC07

  • A Asgari, V Lemiale, P Sunter, S Quenette, P Hodgson, B Rolfe, Application of radial return mapping algorithm for finite strain elastoplasticity in a hybrid finite element and particle-in-cell model, Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of Computational Mechanics on Computational Bridging of Length Scales in Complex Materials, Los Angeles, California, 20–21 July 2006

  • Duboz, C.; Stegman, D.; Moresi, L.; Turnbull, R.; Lo, A.; Quenette, S. gLucifer: Next-generation visualization framework for high-perfomance computational geodynamic models, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005

  • Quenette, S. M.; Moresi, L.; Sunter, P. D.; Hodkinson, L.; Lo, A.; Hassan, R.; Appelbe, B.; Turnbull, R.  From StGermain to Underworld: Enabling Community-based code Development in Geodynamics,  American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005

  • Quenette, S. M. Parallelizing a peanut butter sandwich. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2005 (education)

  • Choi, E.; Thoutireddy, P.; Lavier, L.; Quenette, S.; Tan, E.; Gurnis, M.; Aivazis, M.; Appelbe, B.  Coupling models of crustal deformation and mantle convection: An application of GeoFramework.  American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004

  • DA May, L Moresi, Steve Quenette, Bill Appelbe. Snark+Underworld: Towards a general computational tool for geodynamic modelling, Bollettino di Geofisica, 2004

  • Tan, E.; Choi, E.; Thoutireddy, P.; Aivazis, M.; Lavier, L.; Quenette, S.; Gurnis, M.  Examples of Linking Codes Within GeoFramework, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2003

  • Gurnis, M.; Aivazis, M.; Tromp, J.; Tan, E.; Thoutireddy, P.; Liu, Q.; Choi, E.; Dicaprio, C.; Chen, M.; Simons, M.; Quenette, S.; Appelbe, B.; Aagaard, B.; Williams, C.; Lavier, L.; Moresi, L.; Law, H. GeoFramework: A Modeling Framework for Solid Earth Geophysics, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2003

  • Bill Appelbe, David May, Steve Quenette, S Tang, Feng Wang, Louis Moresi, Towards rapid geoscience model development-the snark project, Proceedings of 3rd ACES (APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation) Workshop, 2002

BoFs and workshops

  • Quenette, Steve; Wilkinson, Max. Characterising Australia’s experience with research data at scale. Workshop. eResearch Australasia 2022.

  • Soo, Ai-Lin; Quenette, Steve; Francis, Rhys; Wilkinson, Max; Burton, Nichola: The Macro-View: Research Data and Researcher Files. BoF. eResearch Australasia 2022.

  • Soo, Ai-Lin; Francis, Rhys; Quenette, Steve; Wilkinson, Max; Kemp, Carina; Walsh, Carmel; et al. (2022): eRA 2021 BoF - Supporting data life cycles at the macro scale. Monash University. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.26180/21068719.v1

  • Jo Dalvean, Ian Thomas, Nick May, Steve Quenette, Christopher Adda, Bernard Meade, Luc Betbeder-Matibet. Governance Models for Research Compute. eResearch Australasia, 2020 

  • Soo, Ai-Lin; Francis, Rhys; Quenette, Steve (2022): eResearch Australasia 2019 An Effective and Affordable Research Data Culture. Monash University. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.26180/20782624.v1

  • Soo, Ai-Lin; Francis, Rhys; Quenette, Steve (2022): 2019 eResearch Australasia Data Summit RDCC Institutional Directions. Monash University. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.26180/18516236.v1

  • Soo, Ai-Lin; Francis, Rhys; Quenette, Steve (2022): Research Data Culture Conversation National Meetings 2019. Monash University. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.26180/20780929.v1

  • Francis, Rhys; Soo, Ai-Lin; Quenette, Steve (2020): Research Data Culture Conversation 2019 National Meeting. Monash University. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.26180/13088987

  • Jens Klump, Timothy Brown, Rohan Clarke, Robert Glasgow, Sideswarra Guru, Owen Kaluza, Steven Micklethwaite, Beryl Morris, Stevan Quenette, Tim Rawling, Nathan Reid, Susie Robinson (2020). Drones in Field Research. BoF in eResearch Australasia 2020. virtual.

  • Klump, J., Quenette, S. M., & Wyngaard, J. (2020). Drones in Field Research BoF. Presented at the C3DIS, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

  • Quenette, Steve; Soo, Ai-Lin (2020): Monash Showbag for Research Data Culture Conversation. Monash University. Presentation. https://doi.org/10.26180/13087805

  • Francis, Rhys; Quenette, Steve (2019): Institutional Role in an Effective Research Data Culture. BoF. eResearch Australasia 2019.

  • Coddington, P.; Nisbet, S.; Quenette, S.; Monas, S. (2017). Do you speak Cloud? Global research on open platforms. Panel. OpenStack Day, Melbourne.

  • Bill Boas, Robert Budden, Mike Lowe, Kate Keahey, Jonathan Mills, Blair Bethwaite, Stig Teller, Paul Calleja, Steve Quenette. HPC/Research Computing: Leveraging the Architectures, Flexibilities, and Tools Emerging from the Members of the OpenStack Scientific Community. Panel. International Conference on Supercomputing, Denver, 2017

acknowledgements

  • Grischa R Meyer, Steve Androulakis, Philip Bertling, Ashley Buckle, Wojtek James Goscinski, David Groenewegen, Chris Hines, Anitha Kannan, Sheena McGowan, Stevan Quenette, Jason Rigby, Patrick Splawa-Neyman, James M Wettenhall, David Aragao, Tom Caradoc-Davies, Nathan Mudie, Charles Bond (2017): The Australian Store.Synchrotron Data Management Service for Macromolecular Crystallography. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Control Systems (ICALEPCS 2015) . Melbourne. https://doi.org/10.4225/03/571DEDB138F50

  • Quenette, S., Moresi, L-N., Sunter, P., & Appelbe, B. (2007). Explaining StGermain: An aspect oriented environment for building extensible computational mechanics modeling software. In T. M. Pinkston (Ed.), Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2007 IPDPS 2007 (pp. 1 - 8). IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2007.370400

banner image: Quenette, Steve; Kaluza, Owen; Moresi, Louis (2021): Latrobe Valley images from the Auscope Geothermal demonstrators. Monash University. Figure. https://doi.org/10.26180/15001218 (CC BY 4.0)

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