The National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS) is the principal competitive program for allocation of high-performance computing resources for scientific research in Australia. In 2016, NCMAS will provide a total of approximately 200 million core-hours on five national HPC facilities to

PhD student Honglin Yu. More than one billion people currently use YouTube, and 300 hours of video are uploaded to the video-sharing website every minute. In this digital age there's a constant need to better understand social media, how it evolves and the factors and benefits of using tools like

Bushfires can cause devastating environmental and societal problems in Australia and other fire-prone parts of the world. NCI's supercomputer facilities are enabling A/Prof Jason Sharples, expert in bushfire dynamics simulation and modelling from UNSW, and his team to use computer modelling to

From left to right: Markus Hegland, Md. Mohsin Ali, Brendan Harding, Peter Strazdins A team of researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have used the NCI facilities to conduct ground-breaking research that has won an award for outstanding paper at an international conference. The

The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) hosted at The Australian National University (ANU) is the nation's most highly integrated and highest performing supercomputing centre. It supports a vast amount of the computational data-intensive research undertaken in Australia. With funding support

Congratulations to Dr Lesley Wyborn who has received the '2015 Outstanding Contributions in Geoinformatics' award from the Geological Society of America. This prestigious award recognizes Lesley's tremendous impact across the geoscience and other scientific domains in Australia and around the world

A remarkably detailed animation of the movement of the densest and coldest water in the world around Antarctica has been produced using data generated on Australia's most powerful supercomputer, Raijin. Chief Investigator, Dr Andy Hogg, from the ANU hub of ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System

Dr Ajay Limaye with the Drishti exhibit at Spiders. NCI's Drishti Prayog is featured at Spiders, the newest exhibition at Questacon and will help give visitors an eight-eyed insight into the amazing world of arachnids. Spiders features fascinating exhibits and interactive displays, along with 200

Dr Andréa Taschetto from the University of New South Wales. Three NCI users have received honorific awards from the Australian Academy of Science. The awards recognise the scientific excellence of researchers in the early stage of their careers through to those who have made life-long achievements

It's been another big year for NCI so we've put together a summary to showcase some of the many highlights of 2015. January The g/data2 site-wide persistent filesystem enters full production service, expanding from 4.5 PB to 6.7 PB. RMIT signed the NCI Collaboration agreement in January 2015