Jana Makar

Building genomics connections across the Tasman

“The training workshops provided an excellent introduction to the GVL environment and there is definitely potential for considering it as part of our compute offerings for Genomics Aotearoa.”
Subject: 
Medical Science
NIWA Weather Related Hazards research programme

Water conservation applies to weather models too

"NeSI’s support on this project has been extremely valuable and will improve the accuracy of our flood forecasts.”
Subject: 
Earth Science
Volcano locations Middle America Trench

Improving earthquake forecasting methods

"If we want to solve real world problems, we need sophisticated models to capture what’s happening in the real world, which is not simple."
Subject: 
Mathematics
Wireless Body Area Networks

Enhancing Wireless Body Area Networks design and functionality

"High performance computing is essential for projects like mine when you need reliable and fast platforms to run these jobs.”
Subject: 
Engineering
Andrew Pauling Antarctica

Understanding sea ice changes in the Antarctic

“There’s no other way to run these models. They really need that infrastructure. The models are getting bigger and bigger and the systems need to keep up.”
Subject: 
Earth Science

NeSI platforms update: welcome Kupe, farewell FitzRoy

As 2017 draws to a close, NeSI is celebrating the completion of some major milestones in the refresh of its platforms. The NeSI/NIWA team have been working with Cray and its subcontractors to insta... Read more

New additions to the NeSI team

NeSI is pleased to welcome three new employees to its team:Attribution: Anita KeanAnita is NeSI's newest Programmer / Analyst. Based at the University of Auckland (UoA), she is working with team me... Read more

Manaaki Whenua & NeSI workshop: Collaborating on research projects using version control

This full-day hands-on training session will help you gain skills essential to collaborating on projects which use Git as a version control tool. Hosted at Manaaki Whenua | Landcare Research in Lin... Read more

Introduction to HPC Using NeSI @ University of Otago, Medical School

Join us on January 23-24, 2018 for a hands-on introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC) using one of the clusters provided by New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI).You will learn how to... Read more

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Using HPC for Research and Career Development in Life Sciences

“The opportunity to push myself in a new direction and see it come to fruition is why I pursued a career in science and using NeSI was an excellent way to include transferable skills and personal development in my PhD. "
Subject: 
Medical Science