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Powering Global Climate Science

This article by Tiffany Trader was originally published on HPCwire, 10 April 2014 With the much-talked-about upcoming report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), titled "Working Group III: Mitigation of Climate Change," scheduled to be released on Sunday, we thought it fitting
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NCI in the news: Mellanox and Redhat Openstack cloud collaborations

This article originally appeared on insidehpc.com NCI Powers Research in the Cloud with Mellanox, RDMA, and OpenStack April 15, 2014 by Rich Brueckner Today Mellanox announced that the National Computational Infrastructure ( NCI) at the Australia National University has selected the company's
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Changing winds send Australia's rain to Antarctica

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
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MARTIAN MINERAL COULD BE LINKED TO MICROBES

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
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Unlocking the time machine

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
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New National Environmental Data Collection

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
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New technology takes out top prize

A revolutionary rock sampling technology co-developed by ANU and UNSW researchers using NCI's supercomputer has won the 2014 UNSW Innovation of the Year Award. Professors Val Pinczewski and Christoph Arns from the School of Petroleum Engineering at UNSW won the award for their contribution to the
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Art + Science = Beauty

Former NCI employee Jonathan McCabe on his stunning science-inspired computer-aided designs. "I remember seeing this article about the Mandelbrot set in Scientific American in 1985 and becoming really excited about computer graphics," says Jonathan McCabe. "I had started with simple plotter-based
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Record hot year may be the new normal by 2025

Record hot year may be the new normal by 2025: ANU Media Release The hottest year on record globally in 2015 could be an average year by 2025 and beyond if carbon emissions continue to rise at the same rate, new research has found. Lead author Dr Sophie Lewis said human activities had already locked...
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Supporting science at the high-school level

NCI's support of Australian science goes beyond just academic researchers. School students in Canberra are now also benefiting, through a program called MeriSTEM being run by the ANU Physics Education Centre. MeriSTEM is providing science resources in the form of online lessons and videos to...

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