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NCSA leads the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), a nationwide collaboration that provides U.S. researchers with the world's most advanced, powerful collection of integrated digital resources and services.

Illinois-Cyprus collaboration spans computing, cultural heritage, and more

For several years, the University of Illinois and the Cyprus Institute have been partners in an effort to establish a supercomputing center, and other expanded digital research capabilities, in the Eastern Mediterranean. Many of the diverse research activities encompassed by this collaboration are now bearing fruit for both partners.

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Simulating supernovae with Blue Waters

Chris Malone and Andy Nonaka explains how their UC Santa Cruz/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory team is using the Blue Waters Early Science System to study how carbon and oxygen burn to iron during the initial stages of thermonuclear runaway as a white dwarf goes supernova.

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