The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) at NCI is simplifying the research process for many data reliant projects across the country. Researchers are able to use these new virtual desktops to access all of the data stored at NCI without having to transfer it to their personal computers. The VDI...

Australian researchers from the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science have produced a remarkable high-resolution animation of the largest El Niño ever recorded. It is so detailed that it took 30,000 computer hours crunching ocean...

Researchers from the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) are using NCI's high performance computing facilities and expertise to research and develop the ACCESS (Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator) model used in daily weather forecasts all over the country. While the BoM uses its own...

Scientists from the University of Adelaide have been modelling the behaviour of quantum particles using Raijin's advanced computing capabilities. ARC Future Fellow Dr James Zanotti says, "Our group has been a heavy user of the NCI facilities, and without them our group in Adelaide would have really...

Researchers are using NCI's supercomputing facility to investigate the interaction of nanomaterials with metals that could be used in future space travel. Dr Christoph Rohmann from the University of Queensland is researching new composite materials, metals that are reinforced with boron nitride...

Researchers from the University of Sydney's Basin GENESIS Hub (BGH) are running models on Raijin that were previously impossible to compute, to gain an understanding of how continents and sedimentary basins are formed. Associate Professor Patrice Rey says the Hub's purpose is "to understand the...

The diagnosis and treatment of cancer and rare diseases in Australia is set to benefit from a partnership between the Australian Genomics Health Alliance (AGHA) and the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI). Genomic medicine uses a patient's individual genetic information to guide their...

Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney are investigating the properties of a wide variety of 2-dimensional materials. These materials, made of one atom thick sheets, have radically different properties to their more common bulk counterparts. Professor Mike Ford is trying to understand...

NCI is supporting world-leading researchers at The Australian National University in their efforts to use seismology to learn more about the centre of Earth. Lead researcher Associate Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić recently published the world's first book about the mysterious inner core – The Earth's...