NCI is one of more than 20 projects supported by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). These projects provide vital research infrastructure for all of Australia’s scientists, from fabrication to data transfer, environmental management, supercomputing, phenomics and...

This was originally published via the ANU newsroom. A new study by an international team of researchers has used computer power to map the so-called "sonic scale", showing the key role turbulence plays in star formation. The sonic scale marks the transition from supersonic turbulence, which is...

Australia’s need for a powerful and predictive bushfire modelling capability has never been clearer. The 2019-20 bushfire season showed just how widespread, unpredictable and terrifying bushfires can be. The Bureau of Meteorology, with the help of the NCI supercomputer, is developing new modelling...

Teaching computers to understand language is no easy task. Humans learn and develop their language skills instinctively as children, but developing that ability for a computer system is very hard indeed. To work on this major research challenge, scientists are using Natural Language Processing (NLP)...

Challenge Much the same as a ‘bit’ in classic computing, a ‘qubit’ is used to encode information in quantum computing. Manipulating these qubits in a circuit for computation can be achieved using nanometre-thin junctions, which are often constructed using aluminium oxide tunnel barriers. Noise in...