Bluefern™
New Zealand’s supercomputing and services facility for research and development.
BlueFern aims to help improve New Zealand's IT skills and research capability and provide infrastructure that contributes to scientific and industrial development.
BlueFern as part of NeSI seeks collaboration among all research organisations. We invite you to explore the experiences and opportunities outlined in our website and to contact us to see how we can help.
BlueFern was established by scientists and engineers to make it easy and convenient for researchers to use world class supercomputers. BlueFern features the first IBM Blue Gene to be installed in the Southern Hemisphere and an IBM p755 super cluster. The systems are made available via the KAREN advanced research network.
Research
Resources and Services
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Meteorological computation: From Antarctica to New Zealand, Dr Peyman Zawar-Reza |
News
2013 INCITE proposals are being called for, NZ researchers are eligible. Read more >>
CMBBE 2012: 11-14 April 2012, Berlin Germany. Read more >>
BlueFern Grand Challenge: Fast Start winners 2011. Read more >>
PhD and Masters Scholarship Opportunities with BIC. Read more >>
Major supercomputing boost for UC. Read more >>
Events
BlueFern HPC Seminar: 30 May 2012. Read more >>
HPC Course ENGR686: Parallel Programming using the Message Passing Interface, 8-12 October 2012. Read more >>
HPC Course ENGR685: Structured Programming for Scientific Computing, 23-27 April 2012. Read more >>
BlueFern HPC Introductory Workshop: 18 April 2012. Read more >>
BlueFern HPC Seminar: 28 March 2012. Read more >>
HPC Course ENGR684: Parallel Computing Architectures, 5-9 March 2012. Read more >>




