Kirsten Brown

NeSI's national platform procurement plans

Attribution:  Early in 2016 NeSI started preparations to replace both the NIWA IBM P575/POWER6 (FitzRoy) and Auckland IBM iDataPlex x86 (Pan) platforms, selecting a single procurement process with ... Read more

Welcome to our newest team member

NeSI's newest team member is Shen Wang. Shen has come on board as an Analyst Programmer based at the University of Auckland.He writes: "I come from a commercial programming background and have over... Read more

eResearch NZ 2017 | Recap

Attribution: Photo courtesy of James Allan Hosted in Queenstown in February by NZ Genomics with cohosts REANNZ and NeSI, eResearch NZ 2017 was a resounding success. 170 attendees came together from... Read more

IEEE International eScience Conference 2017

Attribution:  From 24 – 27 October this year the 13th IEEE eScience conference will be held in Auckland. The objective of the eScience Conference is to promote and encourage all aspects of eScience... Read more

UC scientists make biomolecular breakthrough

The following article was written by the University of Canterbury Communications Department and published on the University of Canterbury website on 20 September 2016. NeSI supercomputing resources were used to support this research breakthrough.
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Biology

Fresh approaches for modelling geothermal systems

A NeSI case study from The Geothermal Institute and GNS Science.
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Earth Science

Golden mystery solved

A long-standing discrepancy between experiments and theory concerning the electronic properties of gold has now been resolved.
Subject: 
Chemistry

Otago physicists’ prediction of gas “droplets” confirmed

Ground-breaking theoretical work by University of Otago physics researchers showing that under certain conditions gases can form into stable droplets – as liquids do – has now been confirmed experimentally by scientists in Germany.
Subject: 
Physics

Improving heart disease prediction and prognosis

“NeSI enabled us to run biologically realistic, numerical experiments, which are impossible to conduct in vivo.”
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Medical Science

Terrestrial Data Analysis for the Ross Sea region

"Access to NeSI has improved the quality of our analyses and has enabled us to highlight the range of environmental pressures that this part of Antarctica faces."
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Physics