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International Open Data Conference 2016

The 4th International Open Data Conference, IODC16, will be held this year in Madrid from October 6 to 7. All the open data community is invited to contribute to the agenda and develop the outcomes... Read more

Posted at Monday, March 14, 2016 - 15:53

February newsletter

News from NeSI and around the country for February.

Posted at Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 13:41

Software Carpentry Instructor Training hits New Zealand

NeSI is pleased to announce the team participating in Software Carpentry Instructor Training at the University of Auckland on the 28th and 29th of January.

Posted at Monday, January 18, 2016 - 10:15

Still time to register for eResearch NZ 2016

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Posted at Friday, January 8, 2016 - 10:17
An illustration of a binary star system.

The evolution of single and binary stars

"Today on NeSI’s Pan cluster, a highly detailed model can define a star's entire evolution in about five minutes."
Subject: 
Physics
Ultra cold gases

The theory of ultra-cold atomic gases

“By using NeSI's resources we were able to simultaneously use almost a thousand cores, which enabled us to complete the work in a fraction of the time it would've taken using only local resources.”
Subject: 
Physics
Dairy cow

Decoding the bovine genome

"Prompt responses from the NeSI team to our requests helped us solve our problems in a few minutes, which in turn allowed us to focus on scientific research rather than on dealing with technical issues."
Subject: 
Biology
A visualisation of the data used in Dr Aslanyan's research.

Fast cosmology with machine learning

"Our algorithm is designed to take advantage of parallelism. Running the algorithm on many parallel nodes would have been impossible without the NeSI cluster.”
Subject: 
Physics
McLellan Building

Searching for Earth-mass planets around Alpha Centauri

“We were able to calculate radial velocities for all our 50,000 observations within about a week – a task that would have otherwise taken several months of computational time.”
Subject: 
Physics
Victor explains his project to the uninitiated

Quantum trajectories: a story of qubits and photons

Victor Canela is using NeSI to help answer the question: how do we get from A to B, when we don’t even know where B is?
Subject: 
Physics