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Gadi Phase 1 now available to users
NCI's newest supercomputer, Gadi, is now available to users for an initial transition phase. We are excited for users to test out this new machine and find out what it can do for them in the leadup to its official launch in early 2020. Gadi, named after the words “to search” in the language of the
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NCI supercomputer climbs rankings
NCI Australia’s new Gadi supercomputer has been ranked as number one in the Southern Hemisphere and number 47 in the world in the latest Top500 list released in Denver Colorado at the SuperComputing19 conference. The Top500 list is a ranking of the most powerful supercomputers in the world
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NCI a founding member of Intel-Lenovo Project Everyscale
Announced today at the SuperComputing19 conference in Denver, USA, Intel and Lenovo have established a new Project Everyscale, of which NCI is a founding member. Alongside other supercomputing centres around the world including Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Computing
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Discovering the exquisite details of mineral formation
THE CHALLENGE: We see so much of the world around us at the large scale, but never really think about the complexity taking place at the atomic level. So it is, for example, with bone formation. A central part of human life, bones are made up of calcium phosphate molecules that come together to form...
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Fluid flow physics facilitates fiendishly fiery formations
THE CHALLENGE: How do stars form? In clouds of gas millions of kilometres across, over millions of years, how do stars form? We know that gravity and electromagnetism and chemistry, pulling together vast clouds of gas, eventually lead to the burning balls of Hydrogen and Helium that we can see in...
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Pixel mosaic makes for new view of the bare Australian ground
THE CHALLENGE: Satellites have been orbiting the earth for decades, all the while taking pictures of the ground below. The pictures they take get processed and stored, and after a while, archived. With some clever thinking, we can make sure to use the full value of those image archives. The...
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Finding the homeland of modern humans
THE CHALLENGE: Where did modern humans first come from? Our development was determined by a combination of genetics, environment and climate, forces acting in concert over the millennia to lead us to where we are today. Those same forces now help us reconstruct the paths both physical and genetic...
