National Computational Infrastructure

13/10/2026

📬 The NCI Monthly Newsletter is here! 👀

Haven’t read it yet? Now’s your chance to catch up on the latest research highlights, community news and upcoming opportunities!

Read it here:

This month, we highlight the growing impact of Australia’s national research infrastructure, with a new report from Lateral Economics estimating that Australia’s national environmental research infrastructure delivers more than $1.5 billion in annual scientific, economic and societal benefits. W...

12/10/2026

🚀 Melbourne researchers: Ready to explore Australia’s national supercomputing capabilities?

Join NCI Australia, Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, CSIRO and Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)’s Nectar Research Cloud for a one-day Roadshow on 23 October!

💻 Discover Australia’s national HPC and data services through morning lightning talks, then build your foundational skills with a choice of four beginner-friendly afternoon training tracks.

📍 Melbourne, Victoria
📅 23 October

🎟️ Explore the program and secure your spot: https://events.humanitix.com/melbourne-research-computing-roadshow-2026?mc_cid=46ebbc1692&mc_eid=933e83ca94&mc_cid=5adee888e8&mc_eid=933e83ca94&mc_cid=5adee888e8&mc_eid=933e83ca94

11/10/2026

🔬 Australia’s biodiversity research is stronger when collections, genomic data and research infrastructure work together.

NCRIS-supported resources are helping researchers unlock the value of Australia’s biological collections, deepen our understanding of unique biodiversity and inform conservation.

Celebrating 20 years of NCRIS supporting world-class Australian research! 🌿

18/08/2026

🌏 NCI at APAN62!

Greetings from Auckland, where the 62nd Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) meeting brought together researchers, engineers and technology leaders from across the region. 🇳🇿

Our NCI team connected with the community, shared ideas and explored what’s next for HPC, AI, advanced networking and research infrastructure. 💻⚡

Great conversations, new connections and plenty of inspiration for the future of research! 🚀

13/08/2026

11/08/2026

🚀 NCMAS 2027 applications are now open !!

Do you need access to Australia’s national supercomputing infrastructures for your research? Applications are now open for the NCMAS 2027 allocation round to NCI’s Gadi / Pawsey’s Setonix

🔎 Find eligibility, application details, key dates and more information at https://my.nci.org.au/mancini/ncmas/2027/

Ready to power your next research project? Apply now! 🚀

06/08/2026

NCI and AuScope are safeguarding decades of Australia’s Earth science data, and unlocking its future !! 🤝

Our extended partnership through 2028 will preserve, modernise and make nationally significant geophysical datasets HPC-ready, empowering researchers to tackle bigger questions with AI, advanced computing and future-ready data.

🌏 Together, we’re ensuring Australia’s Earth science legacy continues to drive tomorrow’s discoveries. 💡

Read the full article :
https://nci.org.au/news-events/news/auscope-and-nci-extend-partnership-preserve-australias-earth-science-data-future

04/08/2026

The July edition of the NCI Newsletter is now available! 🚀

Catch up on the latest research highlights, infrastructure updates, community news and upcoming events from across NCI.

📖 Read the newsletter:

Last month, we celebrated the continued impact of Australia’s research infrastructure ecosystem, with the 20th anniversary of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). The NCRIS@20 Symposium reflected on two decades of national research infrastructure driving discovery a...

28/07/2026

Strengthening Australia’s research infrastructure ecosystem 🤝

NCI’s Dr Hanah Rodríguez joined colleagues from across the NCRIS community at the AeRO session “Aligning Enterprise IT with National Research Infrastructure”.

Together with partners across national research infrastructure, the session highlighted how Australia’s national supercomputing capabilities (NCI and Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre), data platforms and digital services work together to support researchers and institutions nationwide.

A great opportunity to build stronger connections between institutional IT and the national capabilities powering Australian research. 🇦🇺

24/07/2026

🌏 What happens when temperature isn’t the whole story? How do we understand the growing impact of extreme heat in a changing climate? 

This visualisation from NCI’s VizLab combines the ERA5 climate reanalysis dataset with global population data to explore how exposure to extreme wet-bulb temperatures has changed over time, measured as accumulated person-days.

By bringing together large-scale environmental datasets, high-performance computing and advanced visualisation, NCI helps researchers uncover patterns that reveal how climate hazards are evolving and how they affect populations around the world.

This is one example of the science impact enabled by NCI’s national research infrastructure. With access to NCI-hosted datasets and computational capabilities, researchers can build their own analyses to investigate pressing questions across climate, environment and society that support better understanding of environmental change and inform future decision-making. 

Data sources and citations are available in the accompanying Vimeo video - https://vimeo.com/1161656823