NCI Director Professor Lindsay Botten explains how Australia has developed a national HPC strategy to address the country's unique challenges in science, climate, and economic development. This article was first published in HPC 2014-15 from the publishers of Scientific Computing World. Download the

Minister for Industry, the Hon Ian Macfarlane MP, has announced the partnership of ANU, CSIRO and NCI in the new Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Precinct. The Precinct will bring together the brightest minds from CSIRO and ANU with support from NCI to foster research and innovation essential

NCI has officially welcomed RMIT as a Collaborator. RMIT signed the NCI Collaboration agreement in January 2015. NCI Director Professor Lindsay Botten said he was delighted to welcome RMIT on board. "RMIT researchers have been amongst the largest, sustained users of NCI's services for more than a

NCI staff presented four papers at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting in San Francisco in December. As the largest Earth and Space Sciences conference in the world, AGU had an incredible 24,000 attendees. With a combination of more 10PB of research data storage supported by the

NCI VizLab's visualisation software, Drishti, has helped ANU School of Art PhD candidate, Erica Seccombe, win the inaugural Paramor Prize for Art and Innovation in Sydney. VIRTUAL LIFE by Erica Seccombe is permanently on display at the Casula Power House in Sydney. Image: Stuart Hay The piece

It's been a busy start to the year for the NCI user services team. They have already delivered training sessions to NCI users at a number of institutions across Australia. So far they have delivered training at: The Garvan Institute University of New South Wales The Australian National University

NCI's storage capacity has been boosted to 44 petabytes. NCI has signed a $2M deal with Fujitsu to work with storage and data management company NetApp to supply and install FAS, E-series and EF all-flash storage arrays with a raw storage capacity of 11 petabytes, bringing NCI's total raw storage

NCI is pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems CRC. The ACE CRC is Australia's primary vehicle for understanding the role of the Antarctic region in the global climate system, and the implications for marine ecosystems. Their purpose is to provide governments

Dr Rika Kobayashi, NCI Academic Consultant in Computational Chemistry Earlier this month, I presented at the CECAM workshop: " Charge Transfer Modeling in Chemistry: new methods and solutions for a long-standing problem" attended by researchers from all over the world. Charge-transfer (CT)

Media release The likelihood of record-breaking warm years in England is set to substantially increase as a result of the human influence on the climate, new research suggests. In a study published today, 1 May, in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, an international team of