NCSA headlines

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   NCSA Student Spotlight: Daniel George

   NCSA’s Daniel George has developed an algorithm for identifying gravitational waves with AI, leading to monumental awards and a job offer from Google. Read more

   released on 10.22.18 

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   NCSA Industry Conference helps give government and industry competitive edge

   2018 NCSA Industry Conference brought together industry and government partners to facilitate networking, learning, and collaboration to forward innovation and help change the world again. Read more

   released on 10.18.18 

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   yt 3.5.0 released

   This major release includes a number of new features, minor improvements, and bugfixes. Read more

   released on 10.17.18 

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   Herstory: Digital Innovation Symposium and Book Signing set for October 26

   Public is invited to hear from Midwestern women who shaped early digital media and participate in breakout sessions focused on empowering women in the workplace. Read more

   released on 10.15.18 

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   Entire galaxies are moving around in the ‘stockyards’ of cluster galaxies

   Tom Quinn, an astronomy professor at the University of Washington, leads the N-body Shop, where he works on running and analyzing simulations of structure and planet formation in the Universe, along with studying galactic and solar system dynamics. Read more

   released on 10.12.18 

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   Success through the years: NCSA Industry

   With over thirty years of success, NCSA recognizes the role of research in industrial advancements and innovation. Read more

   released on 10.12.18 

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   Final call for Blue Waters allocations

   Illinois faculty and researchers will have one final opportunity for allocations. Read more

   released on 10.11.18 

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   Making sense of the complex

   New insights in human diseases including cancer, chronic pelvic pain, latent tuberculosis and heart disease are the result of the work of NCSA's VI-Bio group's ability to analyze data and transform abstract biological results into visual form. Read more

   released on 10.09.18 

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   Ten NCSA projects nominated for HPCWire Readers’ Choice Awards

   Voting is now open for the 2018 edition of HPCWire's annual Readers' Choice Awards, to be presented at SC18 in Dallas next month. Read more

   released on 10.09.18 

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    What does it look like when two black holes collide?

    Thanks to a new simulation from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the Blue Waters supercomputer at NCSA, we now have a pretty good idea what it looks like when two black holes collide. Read more

    released on 10.08.18 

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    Unzip, turn around, rezip

    Using the Blue Waters supercomputer, University of Illinois researchers make new discoveries on how DNA gets repaired by a molecular machine, the first simulation work to provide an atomistic-level look at what is happening in the helicase. Read more

    released on 10.04.18 

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    Dark Energy Survey releases first year value-added data products

    The Dark Energy Survey, led by NCSA, has just released a new set of data that catalogs over 130 million astronomical objects, including galaxies and stars. Read more

    released on 10.02.18 