Research Highlights

MAJOR POINTS Current research aims to predict when and where a catastrophic bushfire will strike. Such research would help protect life and property from future extreme bushfires. NCI is a critical

THE CHALLENGE Australian Geophysicists are mapping the possible location of economic mineral deposits in South Australia and relying on the NCI to produce advanced 3D models of the subsurface. The

THE CHALLENGE The idiom ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ has been a part of our lives for decades. Three little words have gone on to save countless tonnes of rubbish from landfill, and remain an important

NCI Australia is proud to support incredible Australian research through the inaugural Australasian Leadership Computing Grants (ALCG).The highly competitive Grant will allow researchers to tackle the

NCI Australia is supporting the Australian and international research community undertaking COVID-19 research through the provision of streamlined, prioritised and expedited access to computation and

NCI’s Drishti VR technology, a custom-designed tool for visualising volumetric datasets in virtual reality, is now being used to teach students about the structures of different kinds of wood. Three

THE CHALLENGE: Where did modern humans first come from? Our development was determined by a combination of genetics, environment and climate, forces acting in concert over the millennia to lead us to

THE CHALLENGE: Satellites have been orbiting the earth for decades, all the while taking pictures of the ground below. The pictures they take get processed and stored, and after a while, archived

Decades of scientific measurements that once languished in desk drawers in offices around the country are now available at NCI through a concerted data rescue effort. The measurements in question are

THE CHALLENGE: How do stars form? In clouds of gas millions of kilometres across, over millions of years, how do stars form? We know that gravity and electromagnetism and chemistry, pulling together