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On 1 July 2025, the roles, services and technologies of New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) were integrated into the crown-owned company, Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand (REANNZ). Stay connected with us by visiting the REANNZ website.
 

 

 

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We are pleased to share with you NeSI’s Annual Review for 2019. We've opted to publish an online version only this year. Click here to dive in and start reading.

Posted at Friday, June 19, 2020 - 13:33

Around the world, The Carpentries is teaching foundational coding and data science skills to researchers. However, a hands-on, beginner-friendly introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC)... Read more

Posted at Friday, June 12, 2020 - 17:07

Overcoming data processing overload in scientific web mapping software

"To create the map caches for one of our tools would take about a month of continuous processing."
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For the last four years, NeSI has hosted a successful and increasingly popular Science Coding Conference, initially with a strong programme focus on the Crown Research Institutes (CRIs) and their... Read more

Posted at Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - 11:10

Following the cancellation of the 2020 Collaborative Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science (C3DIS) due to COVID-19 concerns, the conference Organising Committee decided to pivot and... Read more

Posted at Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - 09:15

On May 26, 25 members of the New Zealand Carpentries community gathered to touch base online. This was the second NZ-focused Carpentries community event of the year (see a recap of our first event... Read more

Posted at Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - 09:12

On 28 May, 2020, NeSI Apps Support team member Callum Walley and University of Auckland data scientist Eirian Perkins delivered a training webinar on Git fundamentals. The pair summarised the... Read more

Posted at Friday, May 29, 2020 - 13:49

What is "version control" and why is it important for you as a researcher? Version control is a system that records changes to a file or set of files over time so that you can recall specific... Read more

Thursday, May 28, 2020 - 12:00 to 13:00

As researchers across the country adjust to new ways of working under Alert Level 3, NeSI's HPC platform, Data Transfer platform, and team members continue to remain available to support research ... Read more

Posted at Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 15:24

Over the last seven months, NeSI’s Dini Senanayake and Genomics Aotearoa’s Ngoni Faya have been paving the way for genomics researchers in NZ looking to upskill. In 2019 they ran nine Genomics... Read more

Posted at Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 11:49