NCSA headlines

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   NCSA Team Contributes to Cover Crop Decision Support Tool

   The Cover Crop Analyzer tool will use simulation to help farmers take the guesswork out of crop selection. Read more

   released on 03.01.21 

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   Scientists monitoring magnetic ‘pothole’ in space

   Geomagnetic field forecasting models run on NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer identify new variations in the South Atlantic Anomaly. Read more

   released on 02.03.21 

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   Applications open for New Frontiers Initiative Graduate Research Fellowships

   The fellowship will provide PhD students with a year of full-time research support, including a $38,000 stipend, up to $12,000 in tuition allowance, and an allocation up to 100,000 node-hours on the powerful Blue Waters petascale computing system. Read more

   released on 02.03.21 

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   C3.ai DTI announces call for papers to advance AI for energy and climate security

   Funded proposals will receive up to $5M and include unlimited free access to the C3 AI Suite hosted on the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Read more  

   released on 02.02.21 

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   NCSA researchers identify biomarkers to accelerate liver toxicity testing in new products

   More rapid and accurate testing methods could lead to safer products on the market. Read more

   released on 12.18.20 

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   NCSA Faculty Fellows Gain Nutritional Insights from Biomarkers

   A research team led by NCSA Faculty Fellows were able to apply machine learning to human nutrition research. Read more

   released on 12.02.20 

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   NCSA Wins Multiple Awards During SC20

   NCSA and our partner institutions were honored to take home awards during the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC20), spanning from Agriculture to Visualization and many domains in between. Read more

   released on 11.24.20 

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   NCSA Contributes to mobileSHIELD COVID Testing Lab

   NCSA experts help to automate lab processes to make COVID-19 saliva testing more efficient and mobile Read more

   released on 11.19.20 

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   NCSA receives honors in 2020 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards

   The biannual awards recognize achievements by users of high-performance computing technologies. Read more

   released on 11.17.20 

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    NCSA receives honors in 2020 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

    17th annual HPCwire Awards presented to leaders in the global HPC community. Read more

    released on 11.16.20 

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    NCSA wins DOE INCITE Award for physics-inspired AI project

    An NCSA-led team receives 145,000 node hours on Summit to create AI tools that enable data-driven discovery in multi-messenger astrophysics. Read more

    released on 11.16.20 

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    NCSA awards 16 Fiddler Innovation Fellowships to Illinois students and faculty

    Interdisciplinary research projects that create innovative solutions for real-world challenges rewarded during the virtual award ceremony. Read more

    released on 11.11.20 