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Calling PhD students: Showcase your work at SupercomputingAsia 2024

If you’re a PhD student in high-performance computing, AI, data science, and/or quantum computing fields, a new opportunity has been announced to showcase your dissertation work to an international... Read more

Posted at Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 13:01

Connecting with research communities and colleagues across Australasia

From 16-20 October, members of the NeSI team attended the 2023 eResearch Australasia Conference to learn from peer experiences across the Australian sector as well as share insights from our... Read more

Posted at Monday, November 27, 2023 - 09:59

New additions to the NeSI team: Lai Kei Peng and Mercedes Mudgway

Please join us in welcoming the newest members to the NeSI team!  Attribution:  

Posted at Thursday, November 23, 2023 - 12:30

Highlights from AU NZ Carpentries Community Call in November 2023

On 2 November, Nisha Ghatak (NeSI) and Liz Stokes (ARDC) hosted the final Carpentries communities discussion this year for members in New Zealand and Australia.Focus

Posted at Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - 12:07

NeSI part of new international consortium formed to create trustworthy and reliable generative AI models for science

A global consortium of scientists from federal laboratories, research institutes, academia, and industry has formed to address the challenges of building large-scale artificial intelligence (AI)... Read more

Posted at Friday, November 10, 2023 - 10:25

SupercomputingAsia 2024 call for submissions open

SupercomputingAsia 2024’s (SCA 2024) call for abstracts is now open. Typically held in Singapore, SCA 2024 is coming to Sydney, Australia from 19-22 February 2024. This is is the first time SCA is... Read more

Posted at Thursday, November 2, 2023 - 10:50
Picture of a baby sitting on a rug, facing away from the camera. Image by thedanw from Pixabay

AI app to identify cerebral palsy in infants

“Our eyes cannot focus on the arm, leg and eyes at the same time, but a machine can learn the connectivity in the limbs’ movements.”
Subject: 
Medical Science

NeSI exploring cloud-native services for research developers

As more domains integrate computational and data-focused approaches to the way they work, we're seeing research communities' needs evolve beyond traditional models of queue-based High Performance... Read more

Posted at Wednesday, November 1, 2023 - 12:19
This image depicts a Deep Learning model's prediction of adult Tarāpuka (Black-billed gulls) sitting on nests in a colony. The ground truth is pictured on the left, and the prediction is on the right. Image courtesy of Saif Khan.

Using Deep Learning to detect braided river bird populations

"To be honest, being an ecologist, I was a bit nervous to approach people from advanced data science space. But this fear diminished quickly as all involved in the project was more than ready to understand my needs and was ready to work with my strengths.
Subject: 
Biology
Photo of a riparian strip. Credit Dave Allen, NIWA.

Tools to better understand and address water quality issues

"The team at NeSI worked with us to provide a solution to achieve significant speed-up in legacy R- and FORTRAN-based code for catchment model runs."
Subject: 
Earth Science