18 May 2022
Finding the genetic cause of lupus
A team of researchers have discovered a genetic variation that causes the debilitating disease Lupus. The supercomputing and data infrastructure at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)
16 May 2022
Modelling new materials for a sustainable future
Industrial processes and the combustion of fossil fuels have well-established detrimental impacts on public health and the environment. To help lessen these processes’ contributions to climate change
27 Apr 2021
Generating great Australian science with giant research grants
NCI Australia is proud to support incredible Australian research through the 2021 Australasian Leadership Computing Grants (ALCG). The highly competitive Grants will allow researchers to work on some
16 Apr 2021
Raijin's Biggest User
Over the 7 years of Raijin’s lifetime, Professor Amanda Barnard was responsible for an incredible 8% of the system’s total computing. A multidisciplinary researcher with a strong focus on
09 Mar 2021
Chronic pain relief from the unlikeliest of places
Solutions to the problems we face can come from the strangest of places. The natural world has created an incredible array of molecules and proteins, some of which we can use to our advantage to
05 Mar 2021
Simulations for Increased Turbine Efficiency
The turbines and generators that power our planes and electrical grids are a marvel of precision engineering and refinement. For decades people have been building turbines to power their homes
05 Mar 2021
Extreme Scale Combustion Simulations
The ability to create and control fire was one of the earliest human technologies. For more than a million years we’ve been using flames to cook and power our lives. In the last few hundred years
27 May 2020
New rubber creates path for greener tyres
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
29 Nov 2019
Discovering the exquisite details of mineral formation
THE CHALLENGE: We see so much of the world around us at the large scale, but never really think about the complexity taking place at the atomic level. So it is, for example, with bone formation. A
24 Jul 2019
Chemistry
Research into the properties and structures of chemical elements has been a mainstay of high-performance computing for decades. The community’s expertise in molecular modelling enables researchers to
