Jana Makar

NeSI Genomics Aotearoa Metagenomics Summer School

A partnership approach to building skills in New Zealand's genomics research sector

Together, NeSI and Genomics Aotearoa have the domain knowledge, technical skills, and motivation to address the skills gap facing New Zealand’s genomics and bioinformatics sector.
NeSI Case Study Cyprien Bosserelle NIWA

A fast model for predicting floods and storm damage

"Rendering this grid in the traditional way is not trivial – it would take longer to render the result than run the model each time I wanted to find errors. I approached NeSI and we started talking about visualisation."
Subject: 
Earth Science
NeSI Case Study Yoshihiro Kaneko GNS Science Hikurangi

How multithreading and vectorisation can speed up seismic simulations by 40%

GNS Science researchers are producing detailed images of the 3D structure and geometry of the Hikurangi mega-thrust region using a technique called seismic tomography.
Subject: 
Earth Science
NeSI case study Giacomo Giorli NIWA

Machine learning for marine mammals

“By understanding the abundance and distribution of different marine mammals in New Zealand, we can inform conservation policy, management of marine resources, licensing for offshore activity and create better environmental impact assessments.”
Subject: 
Earth Science

NeSI and Genomics Aotearoa celebrate inaugural Metagenomics Summer School success

As part of the NeSI and Genomics Aotearoa partnership to build and diversify digital skill capabilities for genomics researchers across New Zealand, NeSI was pleased to support Genomics Aotearoa’s ... Read more

New nodes added to NeSI HPC platform will better support users with high-memory demands

NeSI has enhanced its High Performance Computing (HPC) platform to better support users running simulations with high memory demands. Two “large memory” nodes with 1536 gigabytes of memory, along w... Read more

NeSI unveils new training webinars for 2020

Following the successful pilot of its ‘Quick Tips’ training webinar series from August - November 2019, NeSI is pleased to unveil a new programme of webinars for early 2020. 30 January - Got errors... Read more

NeSI, Genomics Aotearoa, and REANNZ unveil programme for eResearch NZ 2020

Following an excellent response to the Call for Submissions, eResearch NZ 2020 co-hosts NeSI, Genomics Aotearoa, and REANNZ are pleased to unveil the draft programme for next year's event, themed '... Read more

NeSI and NIWA partnering to host Cray User Group 2020 meeting

NeSI is partnering with the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) to host the Cray User Group (CUG) 2020 meeting in Auckland from Sunday 3 May – Thursday 7 May 2020.Hosted ann... Read more

Joao Albuquerque NeSI Case Study University of Auckland

New Zealand 2100: The future through high-resolution wave modelling

"I’m lucky to have access to a cluster like NeSI’s. Without it, I’d be running this model for years, rather than about a month.”
Subject: 
Earth Science