NCSA headlines

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   NCSA and Compute Ontario announce partnership to promote advanced research computing

   NCSA forms international partnership with Compute Ontario to leverage supercomputing assets and achieve common goals. Read more

   released on 05.27.20 

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   NCSA Gravity Group interns build strong foundation for their futures

   Four NCSA Gravity Group interns share bright plans for their futures post graduation. Read more

   released on 05.21.20 

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   NCSA SPIN Program works toward closing the STEM gap

   This program aims to create an inclusive and collaborative environment by pairing interns with field experts to enhance tech skills, and in turn, contribute to diversification of STEM fields. Read more

   released on 05.19.20 

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   Educating the next generation of supercomputer users with Blue Waters

   Tulin Kaman, a researcher at the University of Arkansas, has used the Blue Waters Undergraduate Internship program to offer students hands-on HPC research experience. Read more

   released on 05.15.20 

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   NSF awards NCSA over $480,000 for the development of funcX

   This new "function-as-a-service" (FaaS) platform is hosted on the cloud and will enable researchers to build applications from functions that they can easily distribute across a variety of academic and commercial computing resources. Read more

   released on 05.14.20 

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   Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub Collaborates to Bring Data Science Training Across the Region

   Workshops held by the Midwest Big Data Hub help to improve data skills across a variety of midwestern states. Read more

   released on 05.05.20 

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   C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute funds projects

   Three newly funded projects from the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute will enable researchers to 1) model the spread of COVID-19 for intervention policies, 2) model homelessness caused by the shutdown and target aid for at-risk communities, and 3) develop machine intelligence methods to aid in the interrogation of medical images from COVID-19 patients. Read more  

   released on 04.29.20 

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   NSF awards over $680,000 to NCSA to lead development of the Einstein Toolkit

   The Einstein Toolkit ecosystem: Enabling fundamental research in the era of multi-messenger astrophysics. Read more

   released on 04.22.20 

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   NCSA’s Stuart Levy wins Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence Award

   Levy, a Senior Research Programmer in NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Lab, received a campuswide honor for his decades of service and groundbreaking work in the realm of scientific visualization. Read more

   released on 04.17.20 

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    NCSA announces 2020 recipient of Fiddler Innovation Fellowship

    Ananya Cleetus receives NCSA's eDream Institute's Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Award at the Illinois Innovation Prize virtual ceremony. Read more

    released on 04.06.20 

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    Using Supercomputers to Understand Aviation Turbulence

    Katelyn Barber, a former Blue Waters Graduate Fellow from the University of North Dakota, is using supercomputers to help the aviation industry better evaluate turbulence. Read more

    released on 03.31.20 

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    NCSA joins nationwide collaboration to combat COVID-19

    The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, which spans multiple research institutions and private companies, seeks to apply computational resources and artificial intelligence to initially study COVID-19 and ways to curb its spread. Read more

    released on 03.26.20 