Jana Makar

eResearchNZ 2018

The 9th Annual eResearchNZ Conference is coming to Queenstown, NZ on February 12-14, 2018.As a national forum for discussion, eResearchNZ aims to:promote shared approaches to supporting eResearch n... Read more

Lincoln University workshop: Introduction to HPC using NeSI

Join us at Lincoln University on February 7, 2018 for a hands-on introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC) using one of the clusters provided by NeSI.You will learn how to access and use the... Read more

Software Carpentry Workshop: Massey University Auckland & NeSI

NeSI is partnering with Massey University Auckland to host a two-day Software Carpentry workshop. To participate, please register in advance.Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their wo... Read more

Fault zone research

Cataloguing NZ’s earthquake activities

“Because we can analyse such large datasets with NeSI, we can generate large catalogues of earthquakes and look at earthquake occurrence over much longer periods of time.”
Subject: 
Earth Science

Priorities for conservation of NZ’s ecosystems and species

“Ben helped us start to think outside of the limitations of running this analysis on our local machine to considering the possibilities of running hundreds and thousands of iterations."
Subject: 
Biology
Pieris brassicae

Predictive models to combat invasive species

“To run a large number of simulations and scenarios, we needed more computational power.”
Subject: 
Biology

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
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
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
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