Update 1 : External network connectivity to NCI Dear NCI Users, AARNET Network Engineers have successfully carried out additional repairs to the 10 Gigabit Ethernet hardware on the primary NCI-AARNET link overnight. At 7.30am this morning, ANU Networking staff performed a fail-back to the primary

4 March 2014 (originally published http://www.caastro.org/news/2014-snfactory) Astronomers searching for clues about dark energy, the mysterious force that is speeding up the expansion of the Universe, have uncovered new evidence about the nature of supernovae, finding many are lighter than

Hazard Summary Type: Network Hazard Date: Friday 21 March 2014, 1100-1300 Duration: 2 hours Purpose: Network configuration change within the NCI Data Centre Affected: External and internal network connectivity to NCI services Dear NCI Users, ANU Networks and Communications engineers have recommended

Originally published in The Canberra Times, Thursday 20 March 2014by Iain Gillespie The spectacular power of supercomputers, which are helping the world's leading climatologists to wrestle with the vexed issue of global warming, is increasingly being used to benefit everyday users of mobile weather

Eight NCI researchers have been elected to the Australian Academy of Science. Along with just 13 other scientists from around Australia, Professors Michelle Coote, Matthew England, Alan Carey, Rose Amal, Hans Bachor, Peter Gill, Ivan Marusic and Craig Moritz have been honoured for their outstanding

This article by Tiffany Trader was originally published on HPCwire, 10 April 2014 With the much-talked-about upcoming report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), titled "Working Group III: Mitigation of Climate Change," scheduled to be released on Sunday, we thought it fitting

This article originally appeared on insidehpc.com NCI Powers Research in the Cloud with Mellanox, RDMA, and OpenStack April 15, 2014 by Rich Brueckner Today Mellanox announced that the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) at the Australia National University has selected the company's

Models run at NCI have revealed why southern Australia is recording more droughts. Using the NCI supercomputing facilities, Dr Steven Phipps from UNSW discovered that greenhouse gases have disrupted the winds that deliver rain to southern Australia, pushing them towards Antarctica instead. "I ran a

Dr Linda Moore (1953-2010) sampling microbialites in 1985. Photo by Bob Burne. Scientists have discovered, with a little help from Raijin, that the earliest living organisms on Earth were capable of making a mineral that may be found on Mars. The clay-mineral stevensite has been used since ancient

Since 2005, Dr Adam Lewis and the team at Geoscience Australia's National Earth & Marine Observations Group have worked to maximise the value and impact of images taken from space by earth observation satellites. Their Data Cube prototype, using high performance computing and RDSI-funded storage