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Research figure showing the simulation.

Coupling ice and ocean models to better simulate the impact of ice fractures in the Southern Ocean

"The endeavour to couple two such sophisticated numerical models is simply impossible without the full support of an experienced research focussed software engineer. "
Subject: 
Earth Science

Promising start to search for new battery materials

A three-year search to find more sustainable, cheaper, longer-lasting and better-performing battery materials is already showing promising results, one year into the project.
Subject: 
Engineering
Screenshot of the LUMASS platform interface.

Moving research data tools to the cloud to broaden access and impact

"Manaaki Whenua have been pleased to have had the opportunity to begin understanding how these types of remote platforms can broaden the type of compute we can offer our researchers."
Subject: 
Earth Science
picture of dry crops

HPC-powered modelling shows heat, animal illness and drought risks could affect NZ agriculture with changing climate

"The new maps are a powerful step forward in understanding and displaying the effects of climate change for the primary sector in New Zealand."
Subject: 
Earth Science
image of a rocket launch

Powering innovative solutions for spacecraft guidance and space situational awareness

"We are already reaping the benefits, with Alberto Fossà (UT Austin) developing advanced algorithms using it."
Subject: 
Engineering
A visualisation of the climate model being run.

Enabling portability of a climate code through containerisation

"This project gave me the opportunity to become much more familiar with the infrastructure and software underlying the model, which will be valuable experience for the future."
Subject: 
Earth Science
Picture of water drops hitting the surface of a lake.

Plugging memory leaks in a hydrology code

"We are very grateful to the NeSI team for helping me locate and fix memory leak issues and a performance bottleneck in TopNet."
Subject: 
Earth Science
A visualisation of tragectories.

Optimising simulations to improve electronic materials design

"With their support, managing data generation using a Cylc-based approach has been both swift and seamless."
Subject: 
Physics
Stock image of light patterns.

Simulating quantum systems

"By investigating our code and optimising the libraries that we were using, the NeSI consultants sped up components of our code by a factor of 20."
Subject: 
Physics