Partners & Pricing

NeSI has rich experience and advanced capabilities in high performance computing and data science engineering focused on powering New Zealand's science.

Partner with us

NeSI is open to working with public and private organisations involved in research, and has a range of ways you can engage with us:

• Collaborators 
  NeSI is founded in collaboration, and is always open to discuss opportunities to extend and enrich its network of Collaborators.

• ​Partnerships
  NeSI works with research communities and institutions, offering our expertise and capabilities to underpin their partnership goals.

• Service Subscriptions
  NeSI has a range of services you can access to build your research capabilities.

Collaborators

Attribution: 

NeSI is a collaboration between:

• University of Auckland (both a NeSI Host and a Collaborator)

• NIWA, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

• Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research

• University of Otago

• Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment's Strategic Science Investment Fund

NeSI's Collaborators own the core infrastructure assets, which NeSI has a key role in designing, procuring, and operating for the wider research system. NeSI team members are employees at Collaborator institutions, and operate as a national team supporting and enabling research across the full range of Aotearoa New Zealand's research ecosystem.

Learn more about NeSI and our background.

Partnerships

Partnerships with research groups and organisations is central to how NeSI delivers services to research communities and supports national research priorities. Through our partnerships, we aim to build computational and data science capabilities within Aotearoa New Zealand's research system.

Below is a sample of the kinds of partnerships NeSI is involved with.

Platform Partnerships

• Rakeiora Pathfinder Project
• Aotearoa Genomics Data Repository
• AgResearch
• REANNZ
• Globus
• NeSI Collaborators

Capability Building Partnerships

• The Carpentries
• Genomics Aotearoa
• AgResearch

Research Partnerships

• Antarctic Science Platform
• QuakeCoRE
• Deep South National Science Challenge
• Research institutions and other organisations across the research sector

Community Partnerships

• eResearch NZ Conference Series
• Research Software Engineers 
• Women in High Performance Computing - Australasia Chapter

If you're interested in partnering with NeSI, drop us a line.

Attribution: 

The eResearch NZ conference is co-hosted by NeSI, Genomics Aotearoa, and REANNZ.

Service Subscriptions

NeSI has a range of options for accessing its services and building your research capabilities. Subscribing to NeSI's services provides you with:

• Managed entitlements on NeSI's HPC platform for your research projects and programmes. This includes access to:

  • high-capacity CPUs, GPUs and high memory nodes

  • interactive computing via Jupyter Notebooks, containers, and virtual lab environments

  • an extensive pre-built software library

  • data storage for compute, from the highest performance storage on NeSI's HPC platform or via NeSI's long-term storage Nearline Service

• Personalised support to assist your researchers across the breadth of their NeSI experience, from applying for projects/allocations, to getting their projects running on the platform, to general troubleshooting or experimenting with new tools or techniques.

• Targeted support for building researchers' computational skills and capabilities. NeSI's Consultancy Service provides dedicated scientific and HPC-focused computational and data science support to research projects across a range of domains.

• Advice and partnership on advanced research computing strategies and collaboration on shared goals.

Pricing

The following pricing table covers NeSI's core service offerings:

Last updated July 2023 - prices are subject to change.
 

*Mahuika Broadwell nodes are the original Mahuika CPUs and are currently the default CPU for Mahuika users.
**Mahuika Milan cores are the newest CPU nodes in Mahuika (part of what has been called the Mahuika Extension 2021/2022). To use these you need to actively select the Milan partition.

Pricing for NeSI's Research Developer Cloud

As NeSI continues to iterate and develop its cloud offerings, our pricing may be adjusted, however we will notify existing cloud users in advance of any future price changes. Currently, the billable services in the Research Developer Cloud include Virtual Machines (VMs), Graphical Processing Units (GPUs), and Storage.

Pricing is subject to change. Current pricing was last updated in September 2024.

VMs

Regular VMs

The flavours available by default are the balanced VMs with 1cpu to 2GB ram ratio. They are named balanced1.1cpu2ram and increments up to balanced1.32cpu64ram. The price scales linearly with the number of cores in the VMs.

The Research Developer Cloud also offers high memory flavours (memory1) and flavours designed for quick development and test purposes (devtest1), with the memory flavours having 1 to 4 ratio of CPU per GB of RAM, and compute focused flavours with 1 to 1 ratio. Please contact us if you would like to access these specialised compute flavours.

GPUs

The GPUs are currently accessible as a whole node or half a node of A40 GPUs. The GPU flavour won’t be visible by default on your project. We will be working on making vGPU access available in smaller portions instead of the whole node. Please contact us if you would like to access.

Storage

If you have questions or would like to learn more about a Subscription to any of the NeSI services outline above, get in touch.