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
22 Jun 2020
Keeping quantum computers calculating quickly
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
31 Mar 2020
NCI Virtual Reality technology unveils structures you wood not believe
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
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
12 Mar 2019
New materials for smart filters
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
15 Oct 2018
Pushing the boundaries to create a world-class supercomputer
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
02 Feb 2018
Solutions for cryptography in the quantum age
The future of computing is quantum computers, a new kind of machine that will be able to do calculations in completely different ways from the computers we are used to. This will open up new doors for
12 Jan 2018
New ways of interacting with environmental data
Monitoring a forest plantation used to present a significant challenge, requiring spending hundreds of hours measuring tree heights and locations out in the field. Now, the development of new methods
12 Jan 2018
Making data easier to handle
Scientific data these days comes from a large number of geospatial instruments: from satellites, ground based radar and seismic sensors, just to name a few. The question today is how can we more
12 Jan 2018
Applying High-Performance Computing to Satellite Earth Observations
The Australian Geoscience Data Cube (AGDC) is a novel collaborative approach from Geoscience Australia, CSIRO and NCI for generating vast volumes of satellite earth observation and other geospatial
