NCI is one of more than 20 projects supported by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). These projects provide vital research infrastructure for all of Australia’s scientists, from fabrication to data transfer, environmental management, supercomputing, phenomics and
A swathe of NCI users have been nominated as finalists in the 2020 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes. The annual Eureka Prizes recognises excellence in the fields of research and innovation, leadership, science engagement and school science. This year’s cohort of seventeen finalists includes several
The way our oceans flow – in huge circular gyres the size of continents – is an intricate effect of millimetre-sized turbulence that grows to affect global circulation patterns thousands of kilometres in length. These gyres have a major effect on daily weather, seasons and extreme weather events...
NCI Australia warmly welcomes Tuesday night’s Federal Budget announcement of $7.6 million of funding for ACCESS, the Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator, to become a National Research Infrastructure. Congratulations to the Australian climate and weather research community for
NCI’s strategic collaboration between and across conservation genomics research groups has enabled improved access to supercomputing, and enhanced development efforts to improve software and data resources. As an example, the Oz Mammals Genomics (OMG) Framework Data Initiative, supported by...
An Australasian Chapter of the global organisation Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) is aiming to better support diversity within and across the Australian and New Zealand HPC and eResearch sectors. The initiative, a collaboration between Australasian eResearch Organisations (AeRO) , NCI
UNSW PhD candidate, visiting student at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and bioinformatics tool developer Hasindu Gamaarachchi is using NCI’s heterogenous architecture – its integrated mix of CPU and GPU processors– to explore efficient large-scale genomics studies that have not been...
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Life Sciences