NCSA headlines
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NCSA building security framework for LSST
This is the first time NCSA has installed systems outside of the United States in its 31 year history. Read more
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Nineteen students selected for 2018 Blue Waters Student Internship Program
The internship pairs students with faculty mentors and a research project for them to tackle. Each student is given a stipend totaling $5,000, access to a two-week intensive high-performance computing workshop, and an education allocation on the Blue Waters system. Read more
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34 University of Illinois researcher teams awarded allocations on powerful Blue Waters supercomputer
The last-ever round of Illinois Allocations for computation time on NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer have been awarded, totalling more than 5.5 million node-hours, valued at nearly $3.7 million. Read more
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NCSA co-hosting Broadening Participation in Visualization Workshop June 13-14
The workshop is focused on how visualization enables data science for all. Read more
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‘History Was Here’: NCSA’s technology is helping unlock the mystery of medieval graffiti
This research can open doors to understanding what life was like in the Middle Ages. Read more
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NCSA’s GPU Hackathon now accepting applications
Prior GPU experience is not required, as those selected will be paired with experienced mentors who will teach them how to leverage accelerated computing in their own applications or further optimize their codes. Read more
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NCSA announces 2018-19 Blue Waters Graduate Fellows
Ten graduate students from across the country have been awarded computation time, financial support, and dedicated staff expertise to advance their computational and data-intensive Ph.D. research on one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world -- Blue Waters. Read more
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Nine research teams receive GLCPC Allocations on Blue Waters
Nine research projects from researchers at member institutions of the Great Lake Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC) have been awarded over 4.3 million node-hours on NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer. Read more
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Blue Waters awards 21 Broadening Participation allocations
The Blue Waters project at NCSA has allocated over 3.7 million node-hours of computing resources to 21 research teams from across the country to broaden the diversity of the Blue Waters user community. Read more
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Satellites, supercomputers, and machine learning provide real-time crop type data
The new technique can distinguish crops with 95 percent accuracy by just two or three months after planting and well before harvest. Read more
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NCSA announces 2018-2019 Illinois Faculty Fellows
These six Illinois faculty members will work with NCSA to investigate a wide array of subjects including cancer, agriculture, cinema, economics, civil infrastructure and more. Read more
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NCSA Student Spotlight: Ryan Chui
Ryan worked inside NCSA's world-class industry program, in areas of software installation, benchmarking and development, while pursuing his Master's degree in bioinformatics at U of I. Read more
