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NeSI provides a range of services, people, expertise, and information to help computational research projects become reality

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Virtual post-capillary venule, informed by biological data, used in our computational simulations

Understanding mechanical signalling in the microcirculation

“Our computational challenges were significant and required the high performance computing facilities available through NeSI.”
Subject: 
Medical Science
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Computational multiscale modelling of failure in flax fibre composites

“My two-scale simulations could not have been performed without the use of NeSI’s HPC clusters.”
Subject: 
Engineering
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Multi-scale modelling of saliva secretion

“Thanks to NeSI, we were able to render higher quality images and run many more simulation variants than would have been possible on a desktop computer.” Prof. James Sneyd
Subject: 
Medical Science

Improving the treatment of heart disease

“Improving stent design by measuring the impact on blood flow may significantly reduce stent failures and ultimately save lives.”
Subject: 
Medical Science

A new spatial model for estimating New Zealand soil carbon

"Using NeSI resources we substantially reduced the compute time of our data analysis from 21 days to less than one day."
Subject: 
Earth Science

The formation of surface archaeological deposits in arid Australia

"NeSI staff developed customised shell scripts that allowed us to generate thousands of simulated populations in rapid succession on the NeSI cluster."
Subject: 
Earth Science

Estimating migration rates in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

"With the help of the NeSI staff we were able to reduce the time it took to run the analysis by 80 times."
Subject: 
Biology

Pushing cancer cells’ self-destruct button

“Synthetic lethality is an interaction between two genes where only inactivation of both genes kills a cell or organism.”
Subject: 
Medical Science
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Securely transferring health study data across the country

“The project team were originally going to courier hard drives across the country”
Subject: 
Medical Science

Genetics and metabolic syndrome

“By using NeSI, the length of time to complete this analysis was reduced by weeks.”
Subject: 
Medical Science