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NeSI provides a range of services, people, expertise, and information to help computational research projects become reality

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Ultrasound picture of the heart in four chamber view.

Machine learning for clinical decision making

"Through the Consultancy with NeSI, I was able to develop my code to be far more efficient."
Subject: 
Medical Science

Quantifying uncertainty in palaeoecological data

"During the consultancy I learned a great deal about how to program efficiently, implement unit testing, and how seemingly tiny changes to a script can have a great effect on the required time and computer resources."
Subject: 
Earth Science

Improved tracking of land cover changes

James Shepherd wanted to reduce the turnaround time for processing his data, so he applied for a Consultancy project with NeSI research software engineers.
Subject: 
Earth Science
A screenshot of an interpolation simlulation run by researcher Tom Etherington.

Supporting ecological research through enhanced interpolation capability

“I will now be able to make better maps of environmental variables, and hence much better models of species distributions."
Subject: 
Earth Science
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Developing bioinformatic approaches to epigenetics and health

"Setting up EWAS pipeline for global access is something I would not have been able to do myself."
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Predicting precipitation using machine learning

"NeSI experts introduced new technical ideas and tools which we will use and implement elsewhere."
Subject: 
Earth Science

Crashes and quakes at NZ Research Software Engineering Hackathon 2020

“The driving force wasn’t so much the problem itself, but the need to share expertise across New Zealand. We wanted to elevate the software community’s skills and our own.”
Photo of stocked shelves of the dairy section of a supermarket.

High performance marketing insights

"I have been excited to learn how to use more development tools, especially CMake, for application development, and really impressed by the value that the NeSI consultants added to this project."
Subject: 
Economic Sciences

Supporting global collaborations

"Extensive use of NeSI’s HPC resources helped QuakeCoRE to produce world-class research output, which made our research internationally visible."
Subject: 
Earth Science

Enabling smarter heart surgery

"I was modelling a 109-vessel network and after four days the scenario had only 12 per cent completion...The NeSI Consultancy led to this time being cut down to seven-and-a-half hours for the full scenario run."
Subject: 
Engineering