##Rudiger Brauning, AgResearch
###Remove hurdles to HPC use It would be great to have a system where one can submit a compute job and the system runs automatically on the compute system best fitting the compute requirements. Not having to worry about operating system, software environment, location specific ways of running a job, would ensure (1) higher productivity for all users, (2) optimized use of compute resources, (3) collaborating with other users is made easy.
###Pick your battles This is not a problem but rather a word of advice. If there is already a dedicated resource available globally that does (almost) exactly what you need, try and use that resource and contribute to it rather than reinventing the wheel for NZ. For a project that captures the variation in 1000 sheep we are for example working with the European Variant Archive. We give them all our SNP information and they host the data for both querying and visualisation on their system.