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NCI services include:

• HPC services, including:
  • Petascale computing infrastructure and petascale persistent data storage
  • A well-staffed Help Desk, which provides user support, including programming queries
  • Expert consulting services spanning parallel computing (MPI, shared memory, hybridisation), performance analysis, optimisation and scaling, etc.
  • Training and Outreach, with courses on use of NCI facilities, programming with MPI, optimisation (MPI and serial), programming with OpenMP, and Fortran (introductory and advanced).
• Cloud services
• Data services
• Visualisation services
• Virtual Laboratory services

You can access services and facilities at NCI through:

• Partner Shares — for researchers at any of our co-investing partner organisations
• National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS) — for researchers at publicly funded Australian research agencies or higher education institutions
• NCI Flagship Allocation Scheme — for projects identified by the NCI Board as being of high-impact or national strategic importance 
• Commercial and Industry Access Scheme