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.

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.

01 Mar 2021

Science infrastructure central to award winning art

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

Thousands of colourful books stacked vertically and horizontally.

Research Highlights

05 Feb 2021

Teaching computers to understand language

Technology

Teaching computers to understand language is no easy task. Humans learn and develop their language skills instinctively as children, but developing that ability for a computer system is very hard

Bushfire among trees in Australia, November 2019

Research Collaborations

24 Nov 2020

NCI works with NCRIS facilities to respond to national challenges

Earth and Environmental Science

Health

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

A tall rack comprising around a dozen horizontal black computer servers stacked on top of each other.

Research Highlights

14 Sep 2020

Wrapping Up the GPU Bootcamp

Technology

NCI recently partnered with regional colleagues at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and New Zealand eScience Infrastructure, and our industry partners NVIDIA, to bring beginner and intermediate users

Professor Stephen Bartlett smiles at the camera with models of molecules around him.

Research Highlights

22 Jun 2020

Keeping quantum computers calculating quickly

Physics

Technology

What better way to design the next generation of computers than with the best of the current generation? The NCI supercomputer ‘Gadi’ is playing that role to help University of Sydney quantum

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Research Highlights

31 Mar 2020

NCI Virtual Reality technology unveils structures you wood not believe

Biology

Technology

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

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Case Studies

24 Jul 2019

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

The atomic structure of a Metal Organic Framework, with interlaced atoms offering gaps, effectively creating the porous structure.

Research Highlights

12 Mar 2019

New materials for smart filters

Materials

Technology

Gas mask technology has existed for over a century yet the way they work has not changed very much. Originally, the filters used activated charcoal to adsorb – to chemically attract impurities to the

The NCI supercomputer Raijin, columns of black computer servers separated by stacks of in-row fans, in a big white room.

Research Highlights

15 Oct 2018

Pushing the boundaries to create a world-class supercomputer

Technology

Cutting-edge supercomputing has always been at the core of the National Computational Infrastructure's mission. Our high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure, coupled with high-performance data

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Technology

Science infrastructure central to award winning art

Qubits and the quantum computing future

Teaching computers to understand language

NCI works with NCRIS facilities to respond to national challenges

Wrapping Up the GPU Bootcamp

Keeping quantum computers calculating quickly

NCI Virtual Reality technology unveils structures you wood not believe

Technology

New materials for smart filters

Pushing the boundaries to create a world-class supercomputer

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