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NCI is Australia’s largest research supercomputing facility, giving researchers from across the scientific spectrum the highest available performance for their compute and data intensive workloads. NCI’s Gadi supercomputer caters to the biggest, most highly parallel workloads of Australia’s largest...

Virtual Research Environments bring together a community of researchers across multiple organisations to enhance collaboration on national and international science priorities. Virtual research environments (VREs) are developed through coordinated engagement with research communities to maximise the...

NCI’s scientific visualisations are a valuable tool that enables researchers to gain deeper insights into complex datasets and easily communicate their scientific results. NCI’s Vizlab is a team of specialist visualisation programmers that generate images, videos, and virtual reality experiences...

NCI runs two separate clouds for the Australian research community, providing access to high-performance computing and data within specialised virtual environments and other data services. The two versions of cloud at NCI are: Tenjin – A private cloud open to researchers from NCI’s...

NCI's terms and conditions of access explain the roles and responsibilities of all users of our infrastructure and services.  All users of NCI infrastructure and services agree that they will keep themselves informed of and comply with all relevant legislation and The Australian National University...

NCI’s newest supercomputer is Gadi, Australia's peak research supercomputer for 2020 and beyond. A 3,200 node supercomputer comprising the latest generation Intel Cascade Lake and Nvidia V100 processors, Gadi supports diverse workloads with over 9 petaflops of peak performance. Technical...

NCI operates multiple high-speed, low-latency global parallel filesystems to support the most data-intensive research workloads We run the fastest filesystems in the Southern Hemisphere, linking high-performance computing (HPC) with high-performance data (HPD) via 100-gigabit network links. Our...

You can access NCI systems and services through a variety of methods. See below for more information about allocation schemes, virtual research environments, data services and more. NCI provides access to computing, data and virtual environments through schemes allowing access to researchers from...

NCI’s data centre houses our supercomputing, cloud computing and data storage systems. Taking up most of the floor space of the NCI building, the data centre and associated plant room are at the heart of our operations. The data centre features various innovative electrical distribution and cooling...