Aerial view of floodwaters surrounding farmhouses. Photo credit Alan Blacklock, NIWA.

GPUs power up desktop flood modelling

"With NeSI at my front door, the amount of research questions I can consider is exponentially greater.”
Subject: 
Earth Science
View of the Marquesas Islands coastline. Image: Michelle Raponi, Pixabay

Tracking South Pacific responses to climate change

"These climate modelling scenarios require intensive computing resources, with each simulation often taking several weeks of computing time."
Subject: 
Earth Science
A picture of the PromethION sequencing machine.

Delving deep into genomes

“Once the data gets on to our filesystem, the workflow uses NeSI’s A100 GPUs to execute the first step of the analysis at lightning speed."

Upcoming workshops with Genomics Aotearoa

Join us for the following workshops in March 2023:​March 8-9:  Genomics Data Carpentry (online, 10am-4pm). Register using this linkMarch 14:  Introduction to R (online, 10am-4pm). Register using th... Read more

Workshop on Intro to High Performance Computing (HPC Carpentry)

A four hour, hands-on introduction to high performance computing (HPC) on a NeSI supercomputer.Members of the NeSI team will guide attendees through HPC fundamentals including:How to access the NeS... Read more

Illustration of a hydrogen molecule. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

HPC lowers the barrier when producing hydrogen

“It needs HPC. Some of these dimer calculations wouldn't converge for two or three weeks.”
Subject: 
Chemistry

Connect with NeSI Support at our Office Hours in March

Join our online Office Hour sessions in March!Session will be hosted on Zoom. Click on the link below to save the date & Zoom link to your Google calendar. All details indicated below are on Ne... Read more

Connect with NeSI Support at our Office Hour in February

Join our online Office Hour session on 22 February!Session will be hosted on Zoom. Click on the link below to save the date & Zoom link to your Google calendar. All details indicated below are ... Read more

Photo of someone asleep in bed.

A neural network to conquer sleep apnoea

Using NeSI allowed us to take the approach of gathering lots of data, then train and test it remotely as opposed to trying to do it all on a local machine."
Subject: 
Engineering

Register Now for NZ Carpentry Connect 2023

Are you interested in digital skills training for researchers? If yes, you may be interested in learning about The Carpentries, a community-centric organisation committed to teaching foundational c... Read more