Researchers from the University of Sydney are modelling a form of nuclear fusion to understand how it can one day be used as a source of energy. Dr Ben Thornber says "Inertial Confinement Fusion provides a potential pathway towards utilisation of fusion power as an energy source." This method of...

Professor Tiffany Walsh and her team from Deakin University is working with international collaborators to understand what makes certain kinds of nanoparticles good at catalysing chemical reactions. In industry, catalysts are pivotal to increasing the efficiency of production of commodity chemicals...

The NCI's high-performance computing facilities are enabling researchers to model the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere at an unprecedented level of detail. Professor Matthew England from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems Science is working "to understand the...

The Copernicus Regional Data Hub is a world-leading program to share imagery from the European Sentinel satellites with the South-East Asian region. An agreement between the Australian Government (through Geoscience Australia) and the European Commission finalised in May 2016 is bringing all of the...

Australian researchers from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research are developing a ground breaking database of human genetic information using the unique facilities and expertise of the National Computational Infrastructure. The Medical Genome Reference Bank (MGRB), run by the Garvan Institute of...

The National Computational Infrastructure is a key part of Australia's climate modelling efforts. The CSIRO is using the supercomputing capability available at NCI to lead the development of the ACCESS climate model, in conjunction with the Bureau of Meteorology and the ARC Centre of Excellence for...

Dr Amanda Karakas, NCI user and Senior Lecturer in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Monash University, is moving our understanding of stardust and star formation forward thanks to updated theoretical models run on the NCI's supercomputer. Dr Karakas and her co-authors used theoretical models...

While the diagnosis of birth defects in utero continually improves, the task of eradicating them entirely requires an understanding of the complexity of their formation. Advancements in genetic sequencing and the field of computer-based analysis of genomes – bioinformatics – are opening up new...

Over 120,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed in Australia every year, impacting the lives of millions of people. Often, these are treated with a combination of chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery. In Australia, the most common kind of radiation therapy for cancer uses X-rays. They are a...