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NZ Research Software Engineering Conference now accepting submissions!

Planning for NeSI's NZ Research Software Engineering Conference 2021 (NZRSE 2021) is well underway and the Call for Submissions is now open!Themed Open Research – Workflows, Data and Communities, ... Read more

Posted at Tuesday, July 13, 2021 - 16:07
Photo of Alena Malyarenko in Antarctica

Improving research approaches to predicting sea level rise

"The number of tests that were conducted in this Consultancy would not be possible to run by me in such a short time period."
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Earth Science

$2.1 million collaborative investment responds to growth in demand and scale of national research computing capabilities

A new $2.1 million investment announced today by New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) will ensure the country's national research computing platforms remain responsive and high-performing to... Read more

Posted at Wednesday, June 30, 2021 - 17:19

A technical look at the new tools and capabilities of Mahuika

The recently announced upgrade and extension of Mahuika will bring together new tools and technologies to keep pace with today's increasing diversity of research drivers, including growth in data,... Read more

Posted at Tuesday, June 29, 2021 - 09:02

Deep learning in land care research

"We're looking at how we can further automate those processes to make them more efficient so they can be run more frequently, for example to keep up with the rate that satellite imagery is now being produced."
A photo of hands on a keyboard with binary code overlaid.

How Globus enables national cyber infrastructures

Working together to accelerate discovery.
A picture of one of the A100 GPU cards being installed into a rack of the Mahuika cluster.

Tech Insights: Testing the A100 tensor cores on deep learning code

Testing real user code, instead of benchmarks, gave us the opportunity to learn more about the experience we can expect for our users.
Illustration of fibre optics transferring data around the world

State of the craft in Research Data Management: A view from New Zealand

"We love working within research communities, working together to come up with tactics to help them meet their needs."
Photo of an ice shelf in Antarctica.

Modelling Antarctic ice sheets

"We can now confidently say that our current model operates at its absolute technological limit."
An example of the imagery used by Jono Conway's research group to study the topography of an area.

Understanding the impacts of future warming in the Antarctic

"It definitely feels like we had a head start on the project and could jump straight into our science."