National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)

About National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)

NCI is the leading national institution for high performance computing, and provides world-class high-end services to more than 4,000 Australian researchers from 31 universities, five science agencies and several medical research institutes. NCI also provides services to industry and SME users. NCI’s Collaborating Partners include the Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO and Geoscience Australia, a consortia of research intensive universities supported by the Australian Research Council, multiple medical research institutions and industry. A world leader in housing high-performance computing and high-performance data together in the same facility, we enabling research that would take decades to complete on a desktop computer. NCI houses the largest and fastest filesystem in the Southern Hemisphere, curating datasets that encompass every aspect of the solar system, from earth’s core through to satellite and land data, ocean and atmospheric images and telescope feedback about our expanding universe.