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Emeritus Professor Michael Barber appointed as Officer in the Order of Australia (AO)
Emeritus Professor Michael Barber, Chair of NCI The Chair of NCI's Board, Emeritus Professor Michael Barber, has been appointed as an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day 2018 Honours List. The full Australian Honours citation recognises Professor Barber's "distinguished

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New big data platform to revolutionise geoscience
NCI will join a group of Australian research infrastructure organisations to bring together a vast collection of previously incompatible geoscience datasets that scientists can use to improve our understanding of the Earth beneath us. The result for Australia will be improved earth monitoring

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New data collections released
One of NCI's roles is in improving access to national reference datasets for high-performance computational modelling and analysis. A key aim is to provide this in a way that supports programmatic data access either directly on NCI systems or for access externally via NCI data services. To this end

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Vale Will Douglas
07.09.1976 – 19.02.2018 NCI is mourning the death of Development Project Manager Dr William Douglas, who passed away last week after suffering a heart attack. Will was an invaluable member of the NCI Team and contributed significantly to many projects. The recent funding allocation for NCI's next

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Creating a superhighway for big data across the Pacific
NCI and Singapore's National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) have connected Australian and Singaporean researchers at unprecedented speeds. Today's research environments depend on collaboration, high-speed access to large datasets and high-performance computing resources. To meet the needs of Australia

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Satellite data at the click of a button
Geoscience Australia and the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) are today launching a tool that makes viewing satellite imagery of Australia easier than ever. The Sentinel Australia Regional Access (SARA) portal is a new, user-friendly interface enabling the public to easily access the

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NCI welcomes Government's Research Infrastructure Investment Plan
The Australian Government has released its Research Infrastructure Investment Plan in response to the 2016 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap led by Australia's Chief Scientist, Dr Alan Finkel. The plan includes $6.3 million in 2021-22 to augment the $70 million announced in December 2017 for

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NCI Commercial Partner DHI receives another major award
Global water engineering company DHI, one of NCI's Commercial Partners, and the Port of Brisbane have been awarded the Smart Infrastructure Project award at Infrastructure Partnerships Australia's National Infrastructure Awards. The award is for the world-leading NCOS Online technology developed by

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Virtual Laboratory to manage biggest climate data yet
The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) will lead a major new NCRIS-supported research infrastructure project to allow Australian researchers and policy makers to analyse the next generation of international climate data. The Climate Science Data Enhanced Virtual Laboratory (Climate DEVL)