NCI's VizLab, known around the world for its expertise in producing beautiful and valuable scientific visualisations, has had a successful few weeks. NCI would like to congratulate long-time user and artist Dr Erica Seccombe for winning the 2018 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, Australia's

NCI showcased all things supercomputers at the Science in ACTion exhibition in Canberra on the 10th and 11th of August, and this year's event was the biggest yet by far. Thousands of students and members from the local community visited the National Science Week event over two massive days. This

The world-leading data produced by Digital Earth Australia will become even more accessible thanks to the new GSKY data service and software created by NCI. Geoscience Australia's Digital Earth Australia will provide government and businesses with unprecedented access to satellite data tailored for

NCI has created the new GSKY data service and software to make analysis and management of world-leading earth observation datasets easier than ever. Read on to find out the story behind this revolutionary data service. Problem: Data Wrangling Much like sustained wet weather, the ongoing 'data deluge

NCI Director Professor Sean Smith being interviewed at the SC18 booth NCI was present at this year's International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis in Dallas, Texas. SC18, held between the 11th and 16th of November, was a rousing success for NCI. Staff had

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

With the support of RDSI, NCI is establishing the National Environmental Research Data Collection (NERDC), the first of its kind in Australia. The collection comprises more than 8 PB of data spanning national datasets in five areas: Earth System Science, Climate & Weather Models Earth & Marine