NCSA headlines

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   Blue Waters Professor awarded $3.3 million for DOE project

   Kaiyu Guan, a Blue Waters professor at NCSA, and his research team have been awarded a grant to measure carbon emissions in bioenergy crops Read more  

   released on 01.23.20 

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   Register now for Linux Clusters Institute (LCI) Intermediate and Advanced Workshops!

   These workshops will cover the fundamentals of setting up and administering a high-performance computing cluster and will be led by some of the world's leading HPC experts. Read more

   released on 01.15.20 

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   NCSA Engineers Travel to Chilean Base Data Center and Summit for LSST Project

   Over this past summer, four NCSA engineers travelled to Chile for the ongoing work involved with the LSST project. Read more

   released on 12.12.19 

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   NCSA Student Spotlight: Arjun Gupta

   NCSA Student Arjun Gupta used the insights he gained from astrophysics research to peer inside the human heart. Read more

   released on 12.10.19 

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   NCSA and partners win HPCWire Editors’ Choice Award for EarthDEM collaboration

   NCSA has been awarded the Best Academic/Government collaboration award for EarthDEM, a collaboration with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency that seeks to create digital elevation models of the entire Earth. Read more

   released on 11.20.19 

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   Join NCSA at SC19!

   NCSA is thrilled to be in Denver this month for SC19! Stop by booth #417 to learn about all of the ways we’re pushing research forward. Read more  

   released on 11.14.19 

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   NCSA launches Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation

   Combining research, educational opportunities and integration with private industry to spur continued AI innovation at Illinois. Read more

   released on 11.13.19 

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   15 students and five faculty from Illinois receive NCSA’s Fiddler Innovation Fellowship

   NCSA's Fiddler Innovation Fellowship has been awarded to twelve underclassmen at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for their research, spanning everything from neural networks to bionanotechnology. Read more

   released on 10.30.19 

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   NCSA Collaborations Awarded Over $6.1 Million to Accelerate Data-intensive Science

   Three National Science Foundation grants were recently awarded to NCSA to help build the rapidly-emerging field of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics. Read more

   released on 10.24.19 

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    NCSA’s Clowder to be Leveraged in $3 Million Effort to Support Permafrost Data Analytics

    Scientists from across the United States collaborate on the Permafrost Discover Gateway, an NSF-funded project to support our understanding of changing permafrost conditions. Read more

    released on 10.23.19 

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    Blue Waters announces four webinars for October and November

    NCSA has announced four new Blue Waters Webinars taking place over the next two months. Read more

    released on 10.10.19 

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    University of Illinois announces Center for Digital Agriculture

    The new center will combine campus' areas of expertise in engineering and agriculture to cement Illinois' position as an innovator in this emerging field of agricultural technology, and develop solutions to agricultural problems that use digital technology. Read more  

    released on 10.08.19 