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NeSI Genomics Aotearoa Metagenomics Summer School

A partnership approach to building skills in New Zealand's genomics research sector

Together, NeSI and Genomics Aotearoa have the domain knowledge, technical skills, and motivation to address the skills gap facing New Zealand’s genomics and bioinformatics sector.

Webinar: Got Errors? Troubleshooting on high performance computers

Coding can be tricky and frustrating, which is why NeSI’s first Quick tips webinar of 2020 will cover troubleshooting on NeSI.  According to Wikipedia, troubleshooting is “a logical, systematic... Read more

Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 12:00 to 13:00

Workshop: Genomics Data Carpentry at UoA

Genomics Aotearoa (GA) and New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) will be running a Genomics Data Carpentry workshop on January 28-29 at the University of Auckland City Campus.

Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 09:00 to Wednesday, January 29, 2020 - 16:30
NeSI Case Study Cyprien Bosserelle NIWA

A fast model for predicting floods and storm damage

"Rendering this grid in the traditional way is not trivial – it would take longer to render the result than run the model each time I wanted to find errors. I approached NeSI and we started talking about visualisation."
Subject: 
Earth Science
NeSI Case Study Yoshihiro Kaneko GNS Science Hikurangi

How multithreading and vectorisation can speed up seismic simulations by 40%

GNS Science researchers are producing detailed images of the 3D structure and geometry of the Hikurangi mega-thrust region using a technique called seismic tomography.
Subject: 
Earth Science
NeSI case study Giacomo Giorli NIWA

Machine learning for marine mammals

“By understanding the abundance and distribution of different marine mammals in New Zealand, we can inform conservation policy, management of marine resources, licensing for offshore activity and create better environmental impact assessments.”
Subject: 
Earth Science

NeSI and Genomics Aotearoa celebrate inaugural Metagenomics Summer School success

As part of the NeSI and Genomics Aotearoa (GA) partnership to build and diversify digital skill capabilities for genomics researchers across New Zealand, NeSI was pleased to support GA’s recent... Read more

Posted at Thursday, December 19, 2019 - 13:40

New nodes added to NeSI HPC platform will better support users with high-memory demands

NeSI has enhanced its High Performance Computing (HPC) platform to better support users running simulations with high memory demands. 

Posted at Thursday, December 19, 2019 - 13:10

NeSI unveils new training webinars for 2020

Following the successful pilot of its ‘Quick Tips’ training webinar series from August - November 2019, NeSI is pleased to unveil a new programme of webinars for early 2020. 

Posted at Thursday, December 19, 2019 - 12:25

NeSI, Genomics Aotearoa, and REANNZ unveil programme for eResearch NZ 2020

Following an excellent response to the Call for Submissions, eResearch NZ 2020 co-hosts NeSI, Genomics Aotearoa, and REANNZ are pleased to unveil the draft programme for next year's event, themed '... Read more

Posted at Thursday, December 19, 2019 - 12:18