Bluefern™
Welcome to BlueFern
Welcome to BlueFern® - New Zealand’s supercomputing and services facility for research and development. BlueFern® was established by scientists and engineers to make it easy and convenient for researchers to use world class supercomputers. BlueFern® aims to help improve New Zealand's IT skills and research capability and provide infrastructure that contributes to scientific and industrial development.
BlueFern® features the first IBM Blue Gene to be installed in the Southern Hemisphere and an IBM p575 super cluster. The systems are made available via the KAREN advanced research network.
BlueFern® with the support of its partners 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.
Services
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Dr Shaun Hendy, Postdoctoral Fellow, Industrial Research Ltd. |
News
BlueFern Moves into the new NZi3 (the national ICT Innovation Institute) Building
The BlueFern team is now located in the recently completed NZi3 building which was formally opened on April 23rd 2009 by the Hon. John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand. Read more >>
Events
Visualisation and Exploration of huge data volumes
Presented by: Dr Claudio Gheller (CINECA)
CINECA, Bologna, Italy. More information >>



