- Case Study: Visualisation of Canterbury earthquake simulations
- NeSI extends HPC into the Cloud
- Tuakiri transitions from NeSI to REANNZ
- NeSI welcomes new Board member
- NZ Software Carpentry Workshop: Wellington
- Join NeSI's team: Grow the computing and analytics capability of NZ researchers
- eResearch Australasia 2015 programme now available
- US government establishes the National Strategic Computing Initiative
- Recent research outputs
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Case Study: Visualisation of Canterbury earthquake simulationsIn September 2010 and February 2011, two major earthquakes caused widespread damage in Canterbury by ground shaking and liquefaction. 3D seismic wave propagation simulations were done to develop a sophisticated earthquake model used to simulate all the events in the Canterbury earthquake sequences.
“The high-performance computing expertise from NeSI staff was critical to seamlessly port, run, and post-process analyses, enabling my team and I to fully understand the technical aspects of this important and complicated problem.” Assoc. Prof. Brendon Bradley Read more |
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NeSI extends HPC into the CloudA Request for Information (RFI) was issued in July 2015.
Many New Zealand researchers are now dependent on advanced computing capabilities to achieve their research goals. Developing and sustaining these capabilities is a strategic priority for research intensive institutions. NeSI adapts advanced computing technologies to meet the varied needs of New Zealand’s research communities by providing essential research services and expertise that enable and empower research. Our purpose is to grow the computing capability of researchers to ensure New Zealand’s future prosperity.
NeSI's HPC Compute and Analytics service provides a key capability which includes high availability HPC platforms that in the future will provide seamless access to cloud compute capacity.
“NeSI is interested in learning how cloud compute capacity could, when needed, seamlessly support higher compute job throughput of a subset of compute jobs submitted to our clusters,” says Dr. Michael Uddstrom, NeSI’s Platforms Manager.
During July 2015, NeSI issued a Request For Information (RFI) to inform our strategy on taking HPC into the Cloud, where our goal is to realise cost effective support for computation through seamless access to cloud infrastructure provided by NeSI's HPC service. Read more |
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Tuakiri transitions from NeSI to REANNZFrom 1 August 2015 Tuakiri will operate as a REANNZ service.
NeSI has completed work with Tuakiri, New Zealand Access Federation Inc. and REANNZ to transition responsibility for the management and delivery of Tuakiri from NeSI to REANNZ starting 1 August 2015. Earlier this year Tuakiri's members and the REANNZ Board completed a due diligence process and agreed to a merger of Tuakiri with REANNZ.
The Tuakiri service was initiated by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (formerly MSI and MoRST), established at the University of Auckland and delivered by NeSI over the last 3 and a half years. NeSI is the biggest NZ eresearch user of the Tuakiri service, reducing barriers to collaboration and innovation. NeSI has successfully managed and operated Tuakiri, providing a resilient platform for the delivery of Tuakiri services.
Tuakiri enables federation users to seamlessly, securely and easily access federation enabled resources at remote locations using a single set of credentials provided by their home institutions. Tuakiri delivers the legal, governance, policy and technical frameworks required to form an identity federation between participating members, currently being New Zealand Universities, Crown Research Institutes and an Institute of Technology and Polytechnics.
Tuakiri currently has 17 members and enables 63 services with approximately 200,000 federated sessions occurring per year. Tuakiri is working with the Universities NZ/ICTC group and Wellington agencies Tertiary Education Commission, Ministry of Education, and New Zealand Qualifications Authority through a working group to look at IAM and Federated Identity Management needs in the NZ research and education sector and across the NZ school sector. This is work in progress and aligns with the vision for the service. Read more |
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NeSI welcomes new Board member
Professor Rob Ballagh joins the NeSI Board.NeSI is pleased to announce the addition of Professor Rob Ballagh to the NeSI Board, where we're looking forward to his continued role in guiding the evolution of high performance computing supporting New Zealand research. Rob has been a long standing advocate of the importance of a national HPC service and of improving researchers skills and capabilities to apply HPC. He chaired a group that formulated the first cross sector bid for national investment into HPC, which was formative in the establishment of NeSI.
We warmly welcome Rob to the NeSI team, and look forward to working with him as NeSI successfully navigates through new opportunities and challenges.
Rob conducts research in the field of quantum theory at the University of Otago. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ and is currently a Trustee of the Rutherford Foundation. |
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NZ Software Carpentry WorkshopWellington region workshop from 24-25 August 2015.NeSI in collaboration with Victoria University of Wellington is offering a Software Carpentry Workshop in the Wellington region.
This workshop will be held at Victoria University Wellington from 24-25 August. For information on how to sign up please contact us at events@nesi.org.nz.
If you miss out on this opportunity stay tuned as NeSI will be offering more workshops like these during the year in other regions.
Software Carpentry workshops teach basic yet important computing skills for researchers, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Training like this enables researchers to be more effective and productive in their research. NeSI is pleased to be able to offer this workshop as part of our nationwide education and training initiatives to support researcher computing capability development. NeSI is an official affiliate of the Software Carpentry Foundation. Read more |
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Join NeSI's team: Grow the computing and analytics capability of NZ researchers NeSI positions are currently available at Landcare Research (Christchurch or Auckland) and the University of Auckland (Auckland).
NeSI is offering unique opportunities to join a collaborative national team and work along side NeSI’s High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. We are currently recruiting for positions in Christchurch and Auckland.
Join us as we continue to innovate and support the research community in New Zealand. In return we offer the chance to work for a group committed to HPC best practice and excellence.
New Zealand eScience Infrastructure is a collaboration of five research institutions, working in partnership with the Crown, providing HPC, analytics and consultancy services to the NZ Research sector, Government Initiatives/Agencies and Industrial Research. NeSI’s primary aim is to grow the computing and analytics capability of researchers to ensure New Zealand’s future prosperity. Read more about available positions |
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eResearch Australasia2015 conference program is now available.
This year's ninth annual eResearch Australasia conference will be held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. The theme for this conference is 'Fuelling the knowledge economy'.
The Workshops and Main Conference Programs are now available.
The Solutions ShowCase call for participation is now open. Speakers are invited to give a brief presentation of 10 minutes, plus 5 minutes for questions and discussion, in an informal and intimate setting. Click here to participate |
US government establishes the National Strategic Computing InitiativeExecutive order given to expand the role of HPC in the US.
President Obama issued an executive order on 29 July to bring coherence to the technologies supporting modelling, simulation, and those used for data analytics. The aim is to establish an enduring ecosystem and collaboration on national capabilities and infrastructures across sectors (government, research, and industry).
Read more about the White House statement and the National Strategic Computing Initiative. |
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Recent research outputsBelow is a sample of research outputs that NeSI has been made aware of. To notify NeSI of upcoming publications, please email pubs@nesi.org.nz.- A boundary-integral representation for biphasic mixture theory, with application to the post-capillary glycocalyx. P. P. Sumets, J. E. Cater, D. S. Long and R. J. Clarke. Proc. R. Soc. A. 10.1098/rspa.2014.0955
- A balanced procedure for the treatment of cluster–ligand interactions on gold phosphine systems in catalysis. D. Mollenhauer and N. Gaston. J. of Comput. Chem. 10.1002/jcc.23578
If you would like to be kept up to date with research outputs as NeSI includes them, please join our Mendeley group. |
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