Machine Learning 101 on NeSI: Now Accepting Applications

In May 2023, NeSI will be offering a virtual Machine Learning 101 workshop and you are invited to fill out an expression of interest form to signal your interest in attending. Date for the workshop... Read more

Highlights from NZ Carpentry Connect 2023

NZ Carpentry Connect 2023 was originally scheduled to be held in a hybrid format on 14 February, with an in-person component hosted at the University of Waikato | Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato. Carpen... Read more

The Carpentries Instructor Training 2023: Now Accepting Applications

The Carpentries is a global program to teach foundational computational and data management skills to researchers. New Zealand trains several potential Carpentries Instructor trainees every year an... Read more

Screenshot of the simulation model Scion researchers are using to study wilding conifer seed dispersal.

War on wildings

"Building a scientific model/theory to solve complex real world problems is one thing but scaling it up to solve the problems in a timely manner and utilizing all the modern computational resources is another."
Subject: 
Earth Science
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