New addition to the NeSI Team: Welcome Jehferson Mello

Please join us in welcoming the newest member to the NeSI team! Jehferson is an HPC and Cloud Systems Engineer, and based in Wellington at NIWA.Attribution:  Jehferson MelloBefore joining NeSI, I w... Read more

Globus update for IT professionals in NZ

In this webinar Kyle Chard and Ian Foster will share what new/ exciting things you can expect from Globus. This will be part presentation and part Q&A session and is designed for people who are... Read more

NeSI know-how webinar 3: What to know about GPUs

In this webinar Wolfgang  Hayek, Research Software Engineer at NeSI, will  explain what GPUs are and what type of research they are good for. It is  a great session to attend if you are thinking ab... Read more

NeSI know-how webinar 2: Using Jupyter on NeSI

NeSI supports the use of Jupyter for interactive computing. Jupyter allows you to create notebooks that contain live code, equations, visualisations and explanatory text. There are many uses for Ju... Read more

NeSI know-how webinar 1: 4 tips for getting started with NeSI

In this webinar, we'll walk through a few quick tips and best practices for anyone wanting to know the basics of high performance computing on NeSI. NeSI's Nooriyah Lohani will present 4 mini-topic... Read more

Register now for one (or all) of the NeSI know-how webinars

Starting on 15 April NeSI is hosting a ‘NeSI know-how’ webinar mini-series.  You are invited to come to one or all lunchtime sessions to get a taste for what is possible when you work on NeSI platf... Read more

Now accepting applications for Carpentries instructor training 2021

We are now accepting applications for the Carpentries instructor training workshop happening this May - it is a wonderful learning opportunity for people wanting to develop their teaching skills, t... Read more

Quantifying uncertainty in palaeoecological data

"During the consultancy I learned a great deal about how to program efficiently, implement unit testing, and how seemingly tiny changes to a script can have a great effect on the required time and computer resources."
Subject: 
Earth Science

Improved tracking of land cover changes

James Shepherd wanted to reduce the turnaround time for processing his data, so he applied for a Consultancy project with NeSI research software engineers.
Subject: 
Earth Science
A screenshot of an interpolation simlulation run by researcher Tom Etherington.

Supporting ecological research through enhanced interpolation capability

“I will now be able to make better maps of environmental variables, and hence much better models of species distributions."
Subject: 
Earth Science