NCSA headlines
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NCSA Student Spotlight: Antonio Abinader
Antonio implemented a production-ready installation of OpenStack for internal use at NCSA, then followed on to develop a solution to allow researchers to allocate Jupyter Notebooks using a scheduler on existing NCSA clusters such as Nano. Read more
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Midwest Big Data Hub successfully transitions to second phase with new NSF award
Under the planned four year, $4 million award, MBDH will continue to be led from NCSA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Read more
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Black hole simulation solves a mystery about their accretion disks
Scientists conducted the most detailed simulations of a black hole to date using a custom code and the GPUs on Blue Waters. A number of theoretical predictions regarding accretion disks have finally been validated. Read more
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Scientists Spearhead Convergence of AI and HPC for Cosmology
A collaboration, including NCSA's Gravity Group, is working to use Artificial Intelligence in tandem with supercomputers to advance cosmology. Read more
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NCSA’s Blue Waters Petascale Computing Hackathon now accepting applications
The deadline to apply is July 8, 2019. Read more
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NCSA Student Spotlight: Angelynn Huang and Sophia Torrellas
Two high-school students travel to New Mexico to present their research on computational genomics. Read more
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NCSA welcomes 2019-2020 Faculty Fellows
Seven Illinois faculty members selected for year-long collaborations with NCSA. Read more
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NCSA Student Spotlight: Adam Rebei
High school student begins building astronomical research portfolio before he’s old enough to drive. Read more
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New research accurately predicts Australian wheat yield months before harvest
A new study published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology shows machine-learning methods can accurately predict wheat yield for the country two months before the crop matures. Read more
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NCSA scientist employs supercomputer simulations in Ohio gerrymandering case
Dr. Wendy K. Tam Cho, a professor at the University of Illinois and a Senior Research Scientist at NCSA, was called as an expert witness in a case on electoral redistricting filed in Ohio’s Sixth District Court. Read more
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Can You Imagine: Shaping the Future of Finance with HPC?
Using computing resources, Mao Ye tackles large amounts of data currently being collected by companies and finance institutions. Read more
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Collaborative efforts produce clinical workflows for fast, translational genetic analysis
NCSA's Genomics team partnered with the Mayo Clinic to speed up clinical testing as part of the Mayo Grand Challenge project Read more
