Many thanks to the University of Waikato for hosting eResearch NZ 2014. The whole team really enjoyed their visit.The conference was a great success, with representatives from universities, CRIs, p... Read more

Protecting New Zealand's biodiversity through collaboration

“Finding viruses is never easy. Unlike everything else, like humans, mammals, vertebrates or even bacteria, there is no common shared genes between two viruses.”
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Improving New Zealand's weather forecasting ability

A 36 hour forecast by NZCSM takes 130 minutes to complete using 810 processors spread across 13 nodes of FitzRoy
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Staff from NVIDIA will be in Auckland for two days of free events on the 23rd and 24th of June.Day 1: NVIDIA CUDA WorkshopThis day is comprised of a series of overviews of CUDA technology. The sess... Read more

3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase (DAH7PS)

Understanding biomolecular enzymes to develop new therapies

PhD candidate Eric Lang is deepening our understanding of the Shikimate pathway, which may lead to therapies that affect bacteria, but not humans
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NeSI is involved in many open source software pages, particularly those which relate to NeSI's HPC infrastructure and Tuakiri, the New Zealand Access Federation.Here is an overview of the team's co... Read more

NeSI is pleased to present its Annual Review for 2013. View as a PDF: NeSI-AnnualReview-2013.pdfor view using an online reader below: Read more

In early May, the University of Otago hosted a workshop entitled “High Performance Computing for Research”. It was one of our most successful yet.The workshop was well attended. Participants spanne... Read more

Over the last several months, NeSI staff have been involved in a number of events showcasing New Zealand’s model for developing national research (e-)infrastructures.NeSI, REANNZ and NZ Genomics ar... Read more

A summary of research outputs acknowledging NeSI across all areas of science for May 2014. Hydrodynamic persistence within very dilute two-dimensional suspensions of squirmersRJ Clarke, MD Finn, M ... Read more