Professor Nathan Bindoff and his team at the University of Tasmania are using Raijin to investigate how the Southern ocean drives the Earth's climate systems. "The Earth's poles are actually warmer than you would expect, and the equator is colder than you would expect, on the basis of the way the...

Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) are using Raijin to design ultrasensitive biosensors for use in research and medical diagnosis. Led by Professor Andrew Greentree at RMIT University, the team are using computer modelling to design new devices, including...

Australian researchers are using NCI's supercomputer Raijin to develop a way of improving the humidity tolerance of a new type of solar cell technology. The new solar cells, based on a compound with perovskite structures, are cheaper to make than traditional silicon cells but their use in real world...

Researchers are using NCI's supercomputer Raijin to better understand how El Nino impacts Australia's rainfall. Dr Andrea Taschetto, Associate Investigator at the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science at UNSW is studying the role that tropical oceans play...

NCI is providing high-performance computational services to global not-for-profit engineering organisation DHI Water and Environment Pty Ltd. "We specialise in engineering involving water," explains DHI's Head of Marine, Simon Brandi Mortensen. "Everything from coastal and marine water, like waves...

Scientists have used electric currents to control chemical reactions in a completely new way, in a breakthrough that could have implications for how chemicals are made in the future. Professor Michelle Coote, a theoretical chemist from the Australian National University worked with researchers from...

Professor Debra Bernhardt from the University of Queensland has been using Raijin and its predecessors for more than 20 years. Her latest work is helping design better materials for industry. "We use Raijin as an experimental tool to propose and test new materials for applications such as battery...

NCI partners, the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC), are scaling up their models on Raijin to investigate sea level rise. "The largest uncertainty in predictions of future sea level rise comes from a lack of understanding of how the Antarctic ice sheet will...

Dr David Wilson from La Trobe University is using Raijin to design new drugs for diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's. "We're looking at kinases – a group of proteins that are involved in the signalling pathways of a whole bunch of different diseases," explains Dr Wilson. "If we could stop these...

South west Western Australia is set to see more intense and frequent frosts. This article originally appeared in the 2014/15 NCI Annual Report New research suggests south western Australia will become even drier, with severe implications for the region's $4.5 billion agricultural industry. Professor...