New Zealand researchers are able to investigate large, unique, or complex projects more easily, quickly, and accurately using National eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) specialised platform of High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources and data analytics services.

Using NeSI's HPC platform, you can:

• access CPUs, GPUs and high memory nodes on their HPC clusters
  
• work interactively using Jupyter Notebooks, containers, and virtual lab environments
• bring your own code or access NeSI's supported applications.
  

NeSI provides tools and services to help you get your data onto the HPC platform, store it close to the compute, process and analyse your datasets, visualise the results, and share it with colleagues.

While all researchers in New Zealand can apply directly to NeSI on a Merit allocation, if a UC researcher does not qualify for a Merit allocation or the research is not yet funded, you may apply to use UC’s limited allocation to NeSI services.

University of Canterbury funds a limited allocation for up to 500K core hours per annum for unfunded research, or research that does not qualify for the Merit allocation.

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Contact the eResearch Team to get access to NeSI.

The Process to Get Access

UC has a central Cloud Research Compute Fund available to fund researchers to use Cloud compute resources at NeSI and AWS.

UC academic staff, post-doctoral fellows and early career researchers at UC are eligible if:

They are the primary researcher and they have no access to grants or have insufficient funds which can be used for research compute resources. Contact the eResearch Team for more information.