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Painting featuring rings in shades of blue and purple connected by flowing lines.
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Celebrating the NCI supercomputer with a Ngunnawal name and artwork

The Ngunnawal people of the Canberra region have for thousands of years been learning about the world and searching for knowledge in the sky, water, stars and earth all around them. In celebration of National Reconciliation Week, Australia’s largest supercomputing facility, NCI, housed on campus at
'Gadi' by Lynnice Church for NCI Australia 2020
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Gadi Artwork

ABOUT THE ARTIST Artist: Lynnice Letty Church Tribes: Ngunnawal, Wiradjuri & Kamilaroi (ACT and NSW) Gadi - "to search for" in Ngunnawal language, January 2020 for NCI Gadi Supercomputer
Dr Kate Robertson sits in scrubby bush in a field operating scientific equipment.
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Making mining models with magnetic minerals

THE CHALLENGE Australian Geophysicists are mapping the possible location of economic mineral deposits in South Australia and relying on the NCI to produce advanced 3D models of the subsurface. The great challenge of this work is that over 80% of the surface of the state is covered by younger...
Professor Stephen Bartlett smiles at the camera with models of molecules around him.
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Keeping quantum computers calculating quickly

What better way to design the next generation of computers than with the best of the current generation? The NCI supercomputer ‘Gadi’ is playing that role to help University of Sydney quantum physicists in their work to design and improve emerging quantum technologies. THE CHALLENGE Quantum...
Associate Director (Education) Research School of Chemistry

A/Prof Megan O'Mara

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Close-up view of the Gadi artwork with the long row of supercomputer servers visible in the background.
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The Gadi Supercomputer

Gadi is Australia's most powerful supercomputer. Decorated with its own artwork painted by local Ngunnawal artist Lynnice Church, Gadi is a powerful and critical resource for Australian researchers. Gadi contains around 150,000 processors and is capable of performing more than 9 quadrillion
Bushfire among trees in Australia, November 2019
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Protecting lives and property from extreme bushfire

MAJOR POINTS Current research aims to predict when and where a catastrophic bushfire will strike. Such research would help protect life and property from future extreme bushfires. NCI is a critical component of this and other bushfire research. The partnership between the UNSW Canberra and NCI spans...
Close-up view of the Gadi artwork with the long row of supercomputer servers visible in the background.
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Australia’s Gadi is a recognised powerhouse in the global supercomputing ranking

MEDIA RELEASE 23 June 2020 (Updated 29 June 2020) Australia’s newest and fastest supercomputer is a game-changer for the country’s leading scientific institutions. Gadi, meaning ‘to search for’ in the language of the Ngunnawal people, will strengthen Australia’s capacity to perform world-leading
A complex series of green, blue and white pipes connected to tall blue and grey machines.
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The NCI Plant Room

The NCI Plant Room is a core component of our compute and data systems by managing the cooling and electrical supply throughout the building.
Two men roll a large black cabinet into position alongside other cabinets inside a large white room.
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Timelapse: Constructing Australia's fastest supercomputer

Here is the story of how Australia's fastest supercomputer, Gadi, was built. Gadi performs over nine quadrillion (nine thousand trillion) operations per second. Read more about Gadi here, and read more about the Gadi artwork here. To construct a supercomputer of this size requires input and...

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