MEDIA RELEASE FRIDAY 16 DECEMBER 2016 Medical research in Australia and throughout the world will benefit greatly from the development of the Medical Genome Reference Bank, the world's first publicly available genome bank specifically of healthy older people, developed by the Garvan Institute of

Media Release: Friday 16 December 2016 NCI purchases latest IBM Power System for High Performance Computing (HPC) servers to propel AI, deep learning and advanced analytics Australia's national research computing facility, National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), has become the first Australian

Dr Ravichandar Babarao receiving a 2016 Victoria Fellowship in Physical Sciences, for his work understanding metal-organic frameworks. Dr. Babarao was the recipient of the prestigious 2016 Victoria Fellowship in Physical Sciences, as well as the RACI 2016 Rennie Memorial Award for excellence in

Three groups of students and teachers visited NCI in January as part of the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) and the National Science Teachers Summer School. They all enjoyed tours of NCI's data hall and plant room, as well as a variety of activities including an introduction to coding, a look at

NCI has augmented its growing segment of GPU infrastructure with 8 new Pascal P100 GPU accelerators from NVIDIA. These new accelerators represent the next-generation of graphics processors for supercomputing. As evidenced by the rapid uptake and continuing demand for the 120 Kepler K80 GPUs

You will be aware that NCI manages Australia's largest supercomputer, but did you know that we also play a vital role managing data from the environment, water and geophysics research communities? NCI provides researchers access to an ever-expanding national repository of earth systems, observations

NCI is pleased to announce that two ARC Centres of Excellence have been added to its Flagship Scheme, in recognition of their commitment to high-impact science in Australia. These are: ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies; ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science

Did you know that in addition to managing Australia's largest supercomputer, NCI also play a vital role managing and integrating petascale data collections across the environment, water and geophysics research communities? The Wolfe Creek crater in Western Australia, imaged by the European Space

Map of recent Hawaiian volcanism, highlighting the Loa and Kea volcanic tracks. Image: Tim Jones, ANU A study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has solved the 168-year-old mystery of how the world's biggest and most active volcanoes formed in Hawaii. The study found that the volcanoes

If global average surface temperatures hit 1.5°C above pre-industrial conditions then a repeat of the coral bleaching that severely damaged the Great Barrier Reef earlier this year becomes more than twice as likely. If the world pushes temperatures up to 2°C more than the pre-industrial world, then