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ACCESS MAGAZINE - FALL 2009
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.
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.
The graphics processing units in NCSA's Lincoln cluster speed molecular dynamics simulations that drive the development of detergents and drug-delivery systems.
University of Illinois professors use NCSA computers to study how the economic environment and financial institutions influence entrepreneur behavior.
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.
A collaboration between University of Illinois Extension and NCSA is putting tools for scientific inquiry and learning at 4-H'ers fingertips.
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.
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.
American-Chinese Cyberinfrastructure and E-Science Workshop | Stephen Hawking narrates NCSA visualizations | Students across the country participate in Virtual School | Connectivity provider Darkstrand partners with NCSA | I-CHASS names new director | NCSA, I-CHASS, and NICS provide 3 million hours of computing time | NCSA receives almost $900,000 to build community of science education advocates | NCSA's Peter Bajcsy to guest-edit special issue of ACM journal | NCSA researchers receive patent | NCSA researchers receive CI security software grant | NCSA staffers author books
ACCESS MAGAZINE - SUMMER 2009
Excitement starts to build for the Blue Waters sustained petascale computing system as the National Science Foundation announced the first science teams to receive preliminary Petascale Computing Resource Allocations for Blue Waters.
Tom Lange, director of corporate research and development modeling and simulation and NCSA's newest Private Sector Program partner, Procter & Gamble, shares some key points as well as other thoughts on how high-performance computing impacts not just his work with one of the world's largest corporations, but also U.S. innovation and competitiveness.
Reducing wind turbine noise while maintaining performance is a wind industry challenge. Using NCSA's Mercury, a Georgia Tech team is contributing to the solution.
Researchers rely on NCSA's Mercury to overcome a major barrier in shrinking capacitors for microelectronics use.
A team led by NCSA's Peter Bajcsy is developing a "tele-immersive environment" that enables people to interact in real time in a shared virtual space. University of Illinois wheelchair basketball players are helping to test the system.
Some early prospective users of Blue Waters will build computing code for global epidemic models.
A computational approach and NCSA resources help MIT researchers better understand the process of manufacturing hydrogen.
Materials used for radioactive-waste storage must be especially resilient. NCSA and TeraGrid resources help researchers identify and understand next-generation candidates.
A research team is using NCSA resources to develop new methods of studying fluid‑structure interaction and modeling of turbulence on moving grids.
NCSA researcher receives seed grant | NCSA awards fellowships to Illinois researchers | NCSA student employee on winning entrepreneur team | Workshop promotes accelerator use | New lab focuses on petascale algorithms, software | NCSA researcher wins NSF CAREER award | IACAT expands accelerator cluster
ACCESS MAGAZINE - SPRING 2009
To ensure that scientists and engineers can achieve sustained petaflop performance on Blue Waters from day one, intensive work is under way now to port, optimize, and scale a range of applications to effectively use the system's more than 200,000 processors.
Collaborative teams are working now to ensure that a range of applications can take full advantage of Blue Waters when it comes online in 2011.
The University of Illinois launched a new institute that will combine arts and technology. Called edream, the institute will be headed by Donna Cox, who leads NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory.
University of Illinois engineers use NCSA resources to score in an international data retrieval competition and to advance automatic speech and video recognition.
Understanding of the chemical bonding of many elements has been fundamentally changed by chemists at the University of Virginia, who rely on NCSA resources to verify their results.
To address the need for more focused, faster searching, the Army and private companies teamed up with NCSA researchers.
Biophysicists at the University of Pennsylvania used NCSA's Abe to clarify a mysterious interaction between cholesterol and neurotransmitter receptors.
NCSA has several systems that are being used as stepping stones for the sustained petaflop system that will come online in 2011.
Hilton, professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NCSA's senior academic lead for structural and solid mechanics, has developed a radical approach to designing material structures.
Visionary artists set out to break through the imaginary "fourth wall" that separates audience members from performers.
NCSA launches staff recognition awards program | Construction begins on petascale facility | PSP program adds new members | LEAD enhances meteorology education | IACAT hires first professor | William Kramer joins Blue Waters team at NCSA | Workshop helps researchers prepare codes for Blue Waters
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