Technology

Technology research at NCI investigates the devices, tools and systems that will support and contribute to our society in the future. This covers electronic devices, medical devices, cryptography techniques, nanotechnology and more. The rapid growth of digital technologies and their use in all aspects of our lives makes ongoing developments in that space an imperative.

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21 Jan 2022

Supporting national needs in high-throughput computing

NCI supports Australian researchers across all of their computational and data needs, from High-Performance Computing (HPC) through to High-Performance Data (HPD) and High-Throughput Computing (HTC)

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Research Collaborations

04 Nov 2021

NCI works with NCRIS facilities to respond to national challenges

Earth and Environmental Science

Health

Materials

Technology

NCI is one of more than 20 projects supported by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). These projects provide vital research infrastructure for all of Australia’s

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Research Highlights

29 Oct 2021

Tracking environmental water with virtual reality

Earth and Environmental Science

Technology

NCI’s data-intensive services take research data to the next level by bringing to it technologies and expertise that make it more useful and powerful as an input to scientific inquiry. For more than

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Research Highlights

30 Jul 2021

A Look Back at Raijin

Technology

In 2013, Raijin became Australia’s first petaflop supercomputer, a milestone that heralded new possibilities for Australian computational research. It led not just to an increased technical capacity

Illustration of the COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Research Collaborations

01 Jul 2021

Australian HPC centres collaborate with international COVID-19 research efforts

Health

Technology

NCI Australia and the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre have joined the US-led COVID-19 High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium. Joining the esteemed group as a Collaborating Initiative, known as the

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Research Collaborations

01 Jul 2021

Collaborating with the world’s most powerful supercomputer

Technology

NCI is part of an international collaboration between some of the world’s leading high-performance computing (HPC) centres. A global partnership encompassing NCI, Japan’s RIST (Research Organization

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Research Highlights

21 Jun 2021

Major step forward for quantum error algorithms

Physics

Technology

Quantum computers are poised to become a powerful tool for scientific and industrial computing in coming years. What was for decades a theoretical concept is finally becoming a physical reality

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Research Highlights

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

Screenshot from the Open Air video art project by Grayson Cooke. The video shows time lapse image sequences of the Australian landscape made using satellite imagery, interspersed with macro photography of paintings being created. The screenshot shows a river and lake in false colour blue, with lots of tiny clouds and the red outback.

Research Highlights

01 Mar 2021

Science infrastructure central to award winning art

Earth and Environmental Science

Technology

For the second year in a row, NCI’s supercomputing and big data infrastructure plays a central role in the winning entry of the prestigious Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize. The winning artwork

Research Highlights

08 Feb 2021

Qubits and the quantum computing future

Physics

Technology

Challenge Much the same as a ‘bit’ in classic computing, a ‘qubit’ is used to encode information in quantum computing. Manipulating these qubits in a circuit for computation can be achieved using

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Technology

Supporting national needs in high-throughput computing

NCI works with NCRIS facilities to respond to national challenges

Tracking environmental water with virtual reality

A Look Back at Raijin

Australian HPC centres collaborate with international COVID-19 research efforts

Collaborating with the world’s most powerful supercomputer

Major step forward for quantum error algorithms

Generating great Australian science with giant research grants

Science infrastructure central to award winning art

Qubits and the quantum computing future

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