This article originally appeared on insidehpc.com NCI Powers Research in the Cloud with Mellanox, RDMA, and OpenStack April 15, 2014 by Rich Brueckner Today Mellanox announced that the National Computational Infrastructure ( NCI) at the Australia National University has selected the company's

Models run at NCI have revealed why southern Australia is recording more droughts. Using the NCI supercomputing facilities, Dr Steven Phipps from UNSW discovered that greenhouse gases have disrupted the winds that deliver rain to southern Australia, pushing them towards Antarctica instead. "I ran a

Dr Linda Moore (1953-2010) sampling microbialites in 1985. Photo by Bob Burne. Scientists have discovered, with a little help from Raijin, that the earliest living organisms on Earth were capable of making a mineral that may be found on Mars. The clay-mineral stevensite has been used since ancient

Since 2005, Dr Adam Lewis and the team at Geoscience Australia's National Earth & Marine Observations Group have worked to maximise the value and impact of images taken from space by earth observation satellites. Their Data Cube prototype, using high performance computing and RDSI-funded storage

With the support of RDSI, NCI is establishing the National Environmental Research Data Collection (NERDC), the first of its kind in Australia. The collection comprises more than 8 PB of data spanning national datasets in five areas: Earth System Science, Climate & Weather Models Earth & Marine

A revolutionary rock sampling technology co-developed by ANU and UNSW researchers using NCI's supercomputer has won the 2014 UNSW Innovation of the Year Award. Professors Val Pinczewski and Christoph Arns from the School of Petroleum Engineering at UNSW won the award for their contribution to the

Former NCI employee Jonathan McCabe on his stunning science-inspired computer-aided designs. "I remember seeing this article about the Mandelbrot set in Scientific American in 1985 and becoming really excited about computer graphics," says Jonathan McCabe. "I had started with simple plotter-based

Article published in ANU Reporter magazine, 1970. There are several striking aspects to this article about the University's Computer Centre, found in a dusty 1970 edition of ANU Reporter. First is the black and white image of Computer Centre staff testing the interface between a computer and one of

Two NCI researchers have been honoured by the Australian Academy of Sciences for their contributions to science. Associate Professor Kylie Catchpole. Professor Denis Evans and Associate Professor Kylie Catchpole from ANU were awarded the 2015 David Craig Medal for outstanding contributions to

Satellite image of surface water on Australia The Geoscience Australia project, Water Observations from Space (WOfS), with support from NCI was recognised at the annual Resilient Australia Awards this week. Part of the National Flood Risk Information Project, WOfS used decades of satellite imagery