Jana Makar

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."
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
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

Calling PhD Students: Need more HPC resources or travel funds?

NeSI is pleased to share a new opportunity for Aotearoa New Zealand PhD students involved in High Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Data Science enabled research, avail... Read more

Job opportunity: Business Operations Manager

NeSI is looking for an experienced Business Operations Manager ready to partner within a values-based leadership team. We’re seeking a trusted team member who values enabling research sector collab... Read more

Announcing the return of the Australasian Leadership Computing Symposium

NeSI, NCI Australia, and the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre are pleased to announce the return of the Australasian Leadership Computing Symposium (ALCS), a unique event for Australia and Aot... Read more

Example image of the cubed-sphere mesh used by the next generation climate and weather forecasting code LFRic.

Diving deeper into earth data analysis

"We are in a better position to make informed decisions about how to work with data in these next generation models and now have access to tools which go beyond previous existing capabilities."