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 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

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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

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Research Highlights

16 Apr 2021

Raijin's Biggest User

Chemistry

Technology

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

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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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

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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

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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

Research Highlights

20 Nov 2019

Building better performing geoscience software

Technology

NCI supports the research community through our code optimisation expertise, modifying the code of popular software to enable more efficient running at the large scales of our supercomputer. ModEM3D

Technology

Major step forward for quantum error algorithms

Generating great Australian science with giant research grants

Raijin's Biggest User

Science infrastructure central to award winning art

Qubits and the quantum computing future

Teaching computers to understand language

Wrapping Up the GPU Bootcamp

Keeping quantum computers calculating quickly

NCI Virtual Reality technology unveils structures you wood not believe

Building better performing geoscience software

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