December 2015 newsletter

News and events from NeSI, the New Zealand eScience Infrastructure.Issue No. 25December 2015A message from the DirectorCase Study: Software Carpentry in New ZealandResBaz hits NZ in 2016eResearch N... Read more

A showcase of global research data initiatives

Several sessions brought together thought and practice from national data services and infrastructures, of particular relevance to the formative National Research Data Programme in New Zealand.
Subject: 
Computer Science

Software Carpentry in New Zealand: The seed has been planted

NeSI’s training programme lead, Sung Bae, notes “It was overwhelming to witness all 40 seats fully booked within six hours. We noted a strong demand from the humanities and social sciences.”
Subject: 
Computer Science
Calum Chamberlain servicing the Solution Ranges seismic site above the Landsborough Valley.

Scouring continuous seismic data for Low-Frequency Earthquakes

"As a PhD student close to completion, the speed-up afforded by the NeSI infrastructure and the ease of migration came at a crucial time. Everything was straightforward and well-documented, and the expertise of the technical team was invaluable.”
Subject: 
Earth Science

Ground-motion simulations of earthquakes in the North Island of New Zealand

“Without NeSI’s supercomputer, we cannot run our simulations with a sufficient resolution.”
Subject: 
Earth Science

NeSI - Lincoln Region Workshop

NeSI is pleased to announce its collaboration with the Bio-Protection Research Centre of Lincoln University and Software Carpentry in offering a Lincoln Region Workshop designed to support research... Read more

NeSI - North Shore Regional Workshop

NeSI is pleased to announce its collaboration with Massey University and Software Carpentry in offering a North Shore Regional Workshop designed to support researcher computing capability developme... Read more

Indomethacin

Predicting druglikeness in new compounds

A Case Study prepared by Daniel Moscoh Ayine-Tora and Jóhannes Reynisson of the School of Chemical Sciences, University of Auckland
Subject: 
Chemistry
3D plot of the creation of a pulse of light

Manipulating the photon number: simulating a controlled interaction of light and matter

“Jordi Blasco and the NeSI Computational Science team enabled us to achieve over 600 times improvement in the speed of the simulation workflow.”
Subject: 
Physics

New partnership to provide data firepower for NZ’s future

New Zealand’s two major science computer providers are to form an alliance that will benefit New Zealand science researchers across Universities and Crown Research Institutes.New Zealand eScience I... Read more