National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois

Coding Illini make it to the finals at SC13!

After defeating Team Ohio in round one, the Coding Illini defeated K2I18 (Rice University) in round two to advance into the finals of the first ever Intel Parallel Universe Computing Challenge at the SC13 conference in Denver. Read more

Coding Illini make it to the finals at SC13!

Wind wake

Charles Meneveau from John Hopkins University is using XSEDE resources to conduct large eddy simulations of large wind-parks so that his team can study the mechanisms that control the relative power output of wind turbines downstream. Read more

Wind wake

Visual literacy

NCSA experts assist a USC researcher analyzing video and film content and exploring how frequent exposure may influence our beliefs. Read more

Visual literacy

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NCSA headlines

  1. Blue Waters helps team win best paper at SC13

    The Blue Waters supercomputer was the driving petaflop power behind "Enabling Highly-Scalable Remote Memory Access Programming with MPI-3 One Sided," awarded best technical paper at SC13 on Nov. 21 in Denver, Co. Read more

    released on 12.04.13

  2. Crain’s Chicago spotlights Brown Dog data project

    A group at NCSA is getting more than $10 million from NSF to develop tools to manage uncurated data. Read more

    released on 12.02.13

  3. Faculty sought for Virtual School

    Blue Waters project to offer graduate-level online courses. Read more

    released on 12.02.13

  4. Blue Waters places Illinois at the heart of big data universe

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    released on 11.25.13

  5. Coding Illini defeat Team Ohio at SC13!

    A team composed of NCSA staff and University of Illinois computer science graduate students defeated Team Ohio in round one of the first ever Intel Parallel Universe Computing Challenge at the SC13 conference in Denver. Read more

    released on 11.20.13

  6. Using Blue Waters, a team of researchers from NCSA, NCAR and Cray simulated the evolution of Hurricane Sandy as it approached and made landfall. The simulation used a previously unsurpassed ~4 billion computation grid points.

    Simulating Sandy

    Using Blue Waters, a team of researchers from NCSA, NCAR and Cray simulated the evolution of Hurricane Sandy as it approached and made landfall. The simulation used a previously unsurpassed ~4 billion computation grid points. Read more

    released on 11.20.13

  7. Dunning speaks on role of HPC in education

    NCSA director Thom Dunning gave an invited talk at SC13 on how computational simulation can revolutionize education. Read more

    released on 11.20.13

  8. NCSA Receives Honors in 2013 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

    NCSA received the HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in Life Sciences for the use of the Blue Waters supercomputer to achieve a significant breakthrough in the understanding of HIV. Read more

    released on 11.18.13

  9. NCSA team gets $10.5 million grant to develop software for un-curated data

    A team at NCSA has been awarded more than $10 million over the next five years from the National Science Foundation to develop software to manage and make sense of vast amounts of digital scientific data. Read more

    released on 11.14.13

  10. The fellowship is designed to support PhD students who are engaged in a program of study and research that is directly relevant to the use of the Blue Waters supercomputer.

    Applications now being accepted for Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships

    The fellowship is designed to support PhD students who are engaged in a program of study and research that is directly relevant to the use of the Blue Waters supercomputer. Read more

    released on 11.11.13

  11. NCSA launches new responsive website

    NCSA has relaunched its website using the latest responsive design techniques to ensure that the site’s content is optimized for every screen, from desktop to tablet to smartphone. Read more

    released on 11.11.13

  12. Share best practices for campus research computing at January workshop

    Professionals involved in operating and supporting campus shared research computing infrastructure are invited to participate in a best practices workshop on Advancing Research Computing on Campuses, Jan. 16-17, 2014, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Read more

    released on 11.11.13