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Details of Blue Waters start to emerge

According to William Kramer, deputy project director for Blue Waters, both the project and the system design are dedicated to providing performance, effectiveness, reliability, consistency and usability to the widest range of science and engineering areas.

Doing the best

Simultaneously developing Blue Waters and the facilty to house it has afforded unprecedented opportunities for synergy between machine and facility. Access' Barbara Jewett chatted with IBM Fellow Ed Seminaro, chief architect for Power HPC servers at IBM, about this synergy as well as some of the unique aspects of the Blue Waters project.

Get in the game

The graphics processing units in NCSA's Lincoln cluster speed molecular dynamics simulations that drive the development of detergents and drug-delivery systems.

Risky business

University of Illinois professors use NCSA computers to study how the economic environment and financial institutions influence entrepreneur behavior.

Leaving the dark days

As part of the Petascale Computing Resource Allocations program, a longtime NCSA collaborator and his team will make the improvements needed to run a popular cosmology simulation code on Blue Waters.

Computing crops

A collaboration between University of Illinois Extension and NCSA is putting tools for scientific inquiry and learning at 4-H'ers fingertips.

It simply works

Common sense and simple, old-fashioned tools saved patients from pain medication related death in one study conducted at an Illinois hospital. Now researchers hope to translate what they learned into an expanded electronic program that can transform hospital practices across the country and significantly reduce medication errors and adverse reactions.

Oscillons: Lumps in the primordial soup

For most of his career, Middlebury College physicist Noah Graham has been focused on the physics of the very large and very small. He's recently been investigating oscillons, clumps of waves that are localized in space but oscillate in time and do not disperse.

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