Global climate change data provides unique insights about our changing environment over long time-scales, and helps us plan for the future. The international climate change data set CMIP6 is a collection of model data that is assembled from the most advanced climate models around the world and...

A major use case for high-performance computing in research comes from the detailed modelling of atomic interactions. Whether for materials design or chemical analysis, being able to understand the processes taking place within a chemical reaction at an electronic level is crucial. NCI’s...

High-resolution environmental modelling has long been a challenge for Australian researchers, and benefits hugely from access to NCI’s data and compute infrastructure. It requires the ability to manage and access increasingly large-scale, high-resolution and diverse data sources combined with a...

Researchers from one of NCI’s newest Affiliate Partners, the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET), are using the NCI supercomputer to discover the building blocks of our future electronic devices. In effect, they are using a high-energy electronic device —...

In 2017-18, an ANDS-Nectar-RDS (now the Australian Research Data Commons, ARDC) initiative called for applications from the e-research sector to enhance existing capability for “a world-leading data advantage”. As a result, NCI and its collaborators in Climate, Geoscience and Marine science...

Geoscience Australia is developing the world-leading Digital Earth Australia (DEA) platform to provide satellite data and images of Australia for research, industry and government use. Spatial information of this kind provides an in-depth understanding of changes in the environment. The data, once...

NCI’s expert scientific visualisation team is developing a virtual reality (VR) experience to let researchers dive right into their ocean datasets . The VR experience, developed alongside ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes researchers, allows them to see in amazing detail the flow of...

The Bureau of Meteorology is in the process of producing a reanalysis that allows us to look back at Australia’s weather for the past three decades. Built using Australia’s national weather forecast model (Australian Community Climate and Earth-System Simulator, ACCESS), this dataset will give...

Materials scientists working at the cutting-edge of chemistry and physics need to drill down to the atomic level to properly understand the compounds they are dealing with. Materials scientists used to go straight to the lab to test out various plausible materials, now they start by modelling their...