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It has been a very busy few months since we first announced our platform refresh. We’ve been working behind the scenes installing new equipment and collaborating with our vendor partners to configure the new environments and prepare the platforms for project and user migration in the coming months.

Sara King (AARNet) and Nisha Ghatak (New Zealand eScience Infrastructure) led a Birds of a Feather (BoF) unconference session at the recent eResearch Australasia 2024 conference, with support from Amany Gouda-Vossos, Kit Greenhill, Kathryn Unsworth, and Matthias Liffers from ARDC. This session on the Carpentries community kicked off with an engaging icebreaker, where participants identified with various personas in the community, such as trainers, instructors, and learners.

On 13-14 November 2024, NeSI will be offering a virtual Machine Learning 101 workshop and you are invited to fill out an expression of interest form to signal your interest in attending. Click here to submit your expression of interestPlease submit your interest by Monday, 04 November 2024.Selected candidates will receive confirmations via email.

Every February, the eResearch NZ / eRangahau Aotearoa conference gathers researchers, IT leaders, and eResearch practitioners to connect, converse, and set direction for future digital research leadership in Aotearoa.Celebrating its 16th year, the event is coming to Ōtautahi Christchurch from 11-13 February 2025, co-hosted by NeSI, REANNZ, and Genomics Aotearoa. 

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for NZRSE 2024!

From 25-28 August 2024, the second annual Indigidata Aotearoa Wānanga was hosted by Te Kotahi Research Institute (TKRI) in partnership with NeSI, Victoria University of Wellington, Time-evolving Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Open Environmental Science (TAIAO), Genomics Aotearoa and the Tikanga in Technology research program.

From 2-4 Sept, as part of the Antarctic Science Platform's (ASP) 2024 Winter School, NeSI team members helped build the computational research skills of early career researchers from New Zealand universities and Crown Research Institutes (CRIs).  

Over the last six years, as part of a partnership to build and diversify digital skill capabilities for genomics researchers across New Zealand, NeSI and Genomics Aotearoa have worked with researchers to deliver a Metagenomics Summer School at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland.

Please join us in welcoming the newest member to the NeSI team!Andre expands our Research DevOps expertise in Wellington.

Researchers at the University of Chicago are examining how high performance computer (HPC) users and facilities can reduce the amount of energy they consume. As part of this work, they are looking for participants for a survey on the energy awareness of HPC.Anyone who uses HPC resources is eligible to participate, so we are sharing the details with our HPC community in Aotearoa New Zealand.