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
Internships at IBM available, apply by Friday 28 June 2013. |
News
eResearch NZ 2013, 2-4 July 2013, University of Canterbury. Register now >>
Risk factors of diabetes, obesity to be studied. Read more >>
Supercomputer hours to boost research. Read more >>
Parallel Computing 2013 (ParCo2013): 10-13 September 2013, Munich, Germany. Read more >>
2013 INCITE proposals are being called for, NZ researchers are eligible. Read more >>
Events
Q&A Session, Internships at IBM: Tuesday 4 June 2013, midday with PIZZA. Read more >>
HPC Course ENGR685: Structured Programming for Scientific Computing, Monday 20 May - Friday 24 May 2013. Read more >>
eResearch NZ 2013: 2-4 July 2013, University of Canterbury. Read more >>
HPC Course ENGR686: Parallel Programming using the Message Passing Interface, Monday 5 August - Friday 9 August 2013. Read more >>