30 Jul 2021
A Look Back at Raijin
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
01 Jul 2021
Australian HPC centres collaborate with international COVID-19 research efforts
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
01 Jul 2021
Collaborating with the world’s most powerful supercomputer
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
21 Jun 2021
Major step forward for quantum error algorithms
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
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
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
08 Feb 2021
Qubits and the quantum computing future
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
05 Feb 2021
Teaching computers to understand language
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
24 Nov 2020
NCI works with NCRIS facilities to respond to national challenges
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
14 Sep 2020
Wrapping Up the GPU Bootcamp
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
