Jana Makar

Model of temperature and wind in the Drygalski Ice Tongue region of Antarctica.

Automating workflow capabilities

"The workflow has enabled us to run long simulations without constant vigilance."
Subject: 
Earth Science

Reflecting on Capability, Connectivity and Equity at eResearch NZ 2023

Digital equity, data in research, partnership-led approaches, and building capability and diversity across research communities were centre stage topics at the 2023 eResearch NZ Conference at Te Wh... Read more

Job opportunity: Platform Systems Engineer - NIWA

We are seeking a Platform Systems Engineer to join the NeSI and NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) teams. The Platform Systems Engineer will help to identify and deliver so... Read more

Job Opportunity: Research DevOps Support Engineer

NeSI is seeking a Research DevOps Support Engineer to join its national team. This role will connect with research teams across Aotearoa, offering guidance and advice, and helping them optimise the... Read more

Submissions open for Australasian Leadership Computing Symposium 2023

The Australasian Leadership Computing Symposium (ALCS), a unique event for Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia’s high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and Data Science commu... Read more

Screenshot of the simulation model Scion researchers are using to study wilding conifer seed dispersal.

War on wildings

"Building a scientific model/theory to solve complex real world problems is one thing but scaling it up to solve the problems in a timely manner and utilizing all the modern computational resources is another."
Subject: 
Earth Science
Aerial view of floodwaters surrounding farmhouses. Photo credit Alan Blacklock, NIWA.

GPUs power up desktop flood modelling

"With NeSI at my front door, the amount of research questions I can consider is exponentially greater.”
Subject: 
Earth Science
View of the Marquesas Islands coastline. Image: Michelle Raponi, Pixabay

Tracking South Pacific responses to climate change

"These climate modelling scenarios require intensive computing resources, with each simulation often taking several weeks of computing time."
Subject: 
Earth Science
A picture of the PromethION sequencing machine.

Delving deep into genomes

“Once the data gets on to our filesystem, the workflow uses NeSI’s A100 GPUs to execute the first step of the analysis at lightning speed."
Illustration of a hydrogen molecule. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

HPC lowers the barrier when producing hydrogen

“It needs HPC. Some of these dimer calculations wouldn't converge for two or three weeks.”
Subject: 
Chemistry