About ARCS

About ARCS - The Australian Research Collaboration Service

ARCS is funded in part by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) through its Platforms for Collaboration (PfC) capability within the National Collaborative Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). In particular, ARCS is funded to deliver the Interoperability & Collaboration Infrastructure component of PfC. Other PfC components are listed below.

ARCS NCRIS 5.16 Partners	PfC - Platforms for Collaboration (also known as NCRIS 5.16) ANDS - Australians National Data Service AAF - Australian Access Federation NCI (formerly APAC) - National Computational Infrastructure
Members of ARCS (MARCS)	ac3 - Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications ANU - Australian National University CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation iVEC - `The hub of advanced computing in Western Australia' eRSA (formerly SAPAC) - eResearch SA TPAC - Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing VPAC - Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing QCIF - Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation
ARCS Contacts	Executive Director - Prof Anthony G Williams, anthony.williams@arcs.org.au, Phone: 08 8303 3546, Fax: 08 8303 3551, Mobile: 0414 687 264 PA to Executive Director - Sharon Johnson, sharon.johnson@arcs.org.au, Phone: 08 8303 3533 Executive Committee Chair - Prof Nathan Bindoff, nathan.bindoff@arcs.org.au, Phone: 03 6226 2986 Projects Manager - Dr Paul Coddington, paul.coddington@arcs.org.au, Phone: 08 8303 8262 ARCS Coordinator - Natalie Bistricic, natalie.bistricic@arcs.org.au, Phone: 03 9925 4205, Fax: 03 9925 4960 ARCS Helpdesk - help@arcs.org.au Grid Operations Centre and the developer's wiki.

Australian Research Collaboration Service

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