NCSA headlines
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Blue Waters project to offer online course on many-core computing
The Blue Waters project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will offer an online graduate-level course on many-core computing in fall 2014 and is seeking university partners who are interested in offering the course for credit to their students. Read more
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NCSA to host summer workshops on data-intensive computing and harnessing GPUs
This summer the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host two summer workshops offered by the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering. Read more
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U of I, Great Lakes Consortium award Blue Waters resources to 18 research teams
Eighteen research teams from a wide range of disciplines have been awarded computational and data resources on the sustained-petascale Blue Waters supercomputer. Read more
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Hubble Team Finds Monster ‘El Gordo’ Galaxy Cluster Bigger Than Thought
NCSA's Felipe Menanteau was part of the team that weighed the largest known galaxy cluster in the distant universe, nicknamed El Gordo, calculating its mass to be as much as 3 million billion times the mass of our sun. Read more
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Tufte to talk on Illinois campus
On April 10, Edward Tufte will give his talk, "The Thinking Eye," on the University of Illinois campus. Read more
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Latin American and Caribbean leaders learn about NCSA, visit Blue Waters
During the week of March 17–21, ministers and high-level government officials from Latin American and Caribbean countries were immersed in the research activities of the University of Illinois, including visiting NCSA and taking a tour of the Blue Waters supercomputer. Read more
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CyberGIS Center launches
The new University of Illinois CyberGIS Center aims to strengthen and expand the community of GIS users and connect them to cutting edge computing resources to answer big, interdisciplinary questions. Read more
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NCSA’s Donna Cox and Blue Waters user Don Wuebbles featured in Severe Weather Seminar
Two speakers with ties to NCSA will be featured in the 34th Annual Tornado and Severe Weather Seminar, hosted by WGN-TV’s chief meteorologist Tom Skilling on April 5. Read more
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CyberGIS Center kickoff
The CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies will be hosting a kickoff event on March 19th, 2014 to celebrate its startup. Read more
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Blue Waters tours
Take a tour of Blue Waters, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world! In conjunction with Engineering Open House, you can visit the supercomputer any time between 9a and 3p on Saturday, March 15. Read more
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NCSA hosts OpenACC programming workshop
A free OpenACC GPU programming workshop will be held at NCSA on April 1. Read more
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Illinois faculty invited to apply for NCSA fellowships
U of I faculty are invited to apply by April 15 for the Faculty Fellowship program. Read more