February newsletter

 Issue No. 26February 2016eResearch NZ 2016Twenty new Software Carpentry Instructors are ready to go!ResBaz takes New Zealand by stormValentine's Day earthquake for ChristchurchCase Study: Quantum ... Read more

Software Carpentry Instructor Training hits New Zealand

NeSI is pleased to announce the team participating in Software Carpentry Instructor Training at the University of Auckland on the 28th and 29th of January.To join the ten Instructors in our current... Read more

Still time to register for eResearch NZ 2016

Attribution:  Our national meeting for discussion of eResearch issues and opportunities, eResearch NZ 2016, will be held in Queenstown, from 9 – 11 February. These events celebrate how New Zealand ... Read more

An illustration of a binary star system.

The evolution of single and binary stars

"Today on NeSI’s Pan cluster, a highly detailed model can define a star's entire evolution in about five minutes."
Subject: 
Physics
Ultra cold gases

The theory of ultra-cold atomic gases

“By using NeSI's resources we were able to simultaneously use almost a thousand cores, which enabled us to complete the work in a fraction of the time it would've taken using only local resources.”
Subject: 
Physics
Dairy cow

Decoding the bovine genome

"Prompt responses from the NeSI team to our requests helped us solve our problems in a few minutes, which in turn allowed us to focus on scientific research rather than on dealing with technical issues."
Subject: 
Biology
A visualisation of the data used in Dr Aslanyan's research.

Fast cosmology with machine learning

"Our algorithm is designed to take advantage of parallelism. Running the algorithm on many parallel nodes would have been impossible without the NeSI cluster.”
Subject: 
Physics
McLellan Building

Searching for Earth-mass planets around Alpha Centauri

“We were able to calculate radial velocities for all our 50,000 observations within about a week – a task that would have otherwise taken several months of computational time.”
Subject: 
Physics
Victor explains his project to the uninitiated

Quantum trajectories: a story of qubits and photons

Victor Canela is using NeSI to help answer the question: how do we get from A to B, when we don’t even know where B is?
Subject: 
Physics

Quasi-2d Gallium Nanomaterials

Through an extensive series of computational simulations and analysis on NeSI’s Pan and Foster systems, Dr Krista G. Steenbergen and Dr Nicola Gaston have recently unlocked the secret to greater- than-bulk melting of gallium nanoclusters.
Subject: 
Chemistry