NCSA headlines
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Simulating hurricanes with Blue Waters
Ryan Sriver, a researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is using a powerful supercomputer to figure out the effects of a changing climate on the frequency and intensity of hurricanes. Read more
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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
