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Since wrapping up the last session of NeSI's 'Quick Tips' webinar series earlier this month, we have gathered some highlights from this pilot initiative and are asking the research community to help... Read more

Posted at Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - 21:37
NeSI Case Study Alexis Marshal University of Waikato

Parallel processing for ocean life

"We contacted NeSI because we were going from trying to assemble 100,000 individual 150 nucleotide base sequences, to trying to assemble 1.4 billion. We were having computational issues with memory, but also time."
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NeSI Case Study Jon Tunnicliffe University of Auckland

NeSI support helps keep NZ rivers healthy

"It’s been helpful to have routines optimised through NeSI assistance... it’s easier for students and researchers to put their data into the model, experiment with the governing parameters, and then observe what comes out of it."
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You may be very familiar with ‘for’ loops and ‘while’ loops. Quite often, they are the first things we learn about on our coding journey.  Surprisingly, these humble loops could be slowing down the... Read more

Thursday, November 28, 2019 - 13:00 to 14:00

NZ’s first Carpentry Connect is happening in Dunedin, NZ on 11th February 2020, hosted by University of Otago and NeSI! Want to know more about the Carpentries? Or perhaps you want to connect with... Read more

Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 10:00 to 16:00

NeSI held its last webinar of the 'Quick Tips' webinar series this week. Here, NIWA researcher Dr. Cyprien Bosserelle talked about the development of his inundation model and his journey predicting... Read more

Posted at Thursday, November 7, 2019 - 12:47

As part of this year's Figshare Fest NZ event, NeSI Data Product Manager Brian Flaherty was among the invited speakers sharing case study examples and solutions developed for some of today's research... Read more

Posted at Thursday, October 31, 2019 - 18:32

Multiple NeSI team members travelled to Brisbane, Australia this month to participate in the 2019 eResearch Australasia conference programme, delivering sessions and participating on panels and... Read more

Posted at Thursday, October 31, 2019 - 16:19

On 02 October, the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE) announced $6 million of new funding to be allocated to programmes that encourage diversity in science over the next four... Read more

Posted at Thursday, October 31, 2019 - 12:37

For November’s edition of NeSI’s training webinar series, we host Dr. Cyprien Bosserelle, a hydrodynamics modeller at NIWA who has a particular research interest in processes related to inundation,... Read more

Wednesday, November 6, 2019 - 12:30 to 13:15