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ACCESS MAGAZINE - FALL 2010
Science team members and NCSA staff have been using the POWER7 "Bluedrop" system to port and re-engineer their applications in preparation for the arrival of the production Blue Waters equipment. The results are very positive, and early access is giving the science teams and IBM a firm basis for performance estimations and optimizations.
An Illinois team headed by computer science professor Laxmikant Kale is helping scientists tune their applications for Blue Waters, even before the hardware exists. He chatted with Access' Trish Barker about that process.
Computing codes improved as part of the National Science Foundation's Petascale Computing Resource Allocations program will transform fundamental chemistry with wide-ranging impact.
A Northwestern University researcher studying intermetallic compounds relies on high-performance computing to conduct atomic modeling prior to planning experiments.
Undergraduate institute prepares students to integrate computer science, other research disciplines.
Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, this documentary film takes viewers through distant galaxies as it tells the story of the repair and upgrade of the Hubble telescope.
An online database that brings together farmers and customers is just one example of the power of geospatial Web tools.
A University of Kansas research team is using NCSA's Abe to explore the energy of cosmic rays and a possible link to massive prehistoric extinction events.
Work by a University of Illinois team may help prevent deep sea oil pipeline disasters.
E-science workshop brings U.S., China together | REU program provides opportunities | NCSA developing Eclipse-based workbench for HPC applications | NSF awards grant to NCSA for industrial use project | NSF awards $3 million to improve intrusion detection framework | Kevin Franklin named to Joint NSF-TG Board | Virtual School educates a record number of participants
A new spin material - Ching Yao Fong, University of California, Davis | Galaxy gas - Greg Bryan, Columbia University | Superhydrophobicity - Alenka Luzar, Virginia Commonwealth University
ACCESS MAGAZINE - SUMMER 2010
Few of the advantages of the national cyberinfrastructure will be realized without scientists and engineers who understand the new capabilities that it provides. The cybereducation team at NCSA helps bridge the gap between research and education by conducting activities and programs to disseminate advanced technologies to new—as well as established—communities, encouraging them to adopt computational technologies as learning tools.
Building the Blue Waters sustained-petascale supercomputer also requires developing the applications that will allow researchers to do their science on the machine. Bill Gropp, the chief applications architect for Blue Waters, tells Access' Barbara Jewett what that work involves and how it feeds into the future of high-performance computing.
Tulane University researchers investigate how tiny units of genetic material fold into long fibers—and impact some of our bodies' most fundamental processes.
Little is known about the protein molecules involved in touch and auditory function, but a team from Harvard University has resolved the atomic-level structure of a protein essential for sound perception.
"Having access to NCSA kept my projects alive!"
With Blue Waters, atmospheric scientists believe they'll be able to gain important insights into the formation of dangerous twisters, leading to earlier and more accurate warnings.
After providing millions of compute hours over six and one half years of faithful service, NCSA's Mercury cluster retired at the end of March.
Scientists use NCSA and other TeraGrid resources to reveal that the most common mineral on Earth is relatively uncommon deep within the planet.
INDICATOR is an open-source biosurveillance program that analyzes data of local reported illnesses and school absences to detect unusual numbers.
Less than two years after breaking ground, the University of Illinois' National Petascale Computing Facility was completed and ready for occupancy in June. The facility will be home for the Blue Waters sustained-petascale supercomputer when it comes online.
NCSA a partner in NSF XD TIS award | Snir named Rock Star of HPC | More than 1,000 visit new supercomputing facility | Craig, Leetaru receive third web tool patent | I-CHASS gets $300,000 grant | Ubiquitous Learning book published | Brown elected president | NCSA hosts data centers of future workshop | Industry meets academia
ACCESS MAGAZINE - SPRING 2010
NCSA Director Thom Dunning thinks one of the most exciting research advances in science and engineering in the past decade is the digitization of observational science. Fields as disparate as astronomy, biology, and environmental science are being revolutionized by the use of digital technologies.
Irene Qualters joined the National Science Foundation in December 2009 as a program director in the office of Cyberinfrastructure, with responsibility for the Blue Waters project. She recently talked with Access' Barbara Jewett about Blue Waters, as well as the future of high-performance computing.
A Blue Waters team works with earthquake engineers to build and combine codes that will provide better seismic hazard assessments and inform safer building codes.
Cosmology and astronomy are increasingly data-intensive sciences. NCSA is assisting researchers as they prepare to gather and process petabytes of data.
The climate is changing. Global temperatures have been increasing for over 40 years, and the science indicates this is primarily due to human activities. The good news, according to climate model results using NCSA resources, is this change can be slowed down before the impacts become too large.
Georgia Tech physicists explore graphene's properties as a conductor of electrons.
The Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing brings together researchers from Illinois' Center for Extreme-Scale Computation and NCSA with colleagues from INRIA, the French national computer science institute. Together they tackle the challenges of achieving sustained petascale computing with Blue Waters and other supercomputers.
High-resolution 3D visualizations of galaxies, nebulae and newborn stars created at NCSA take viewers on an unprecedented voyage of discovery into the wonders of the universe in Hubble 3D, a 43-minute IMAX® 3D documentary narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.
NCSA honors staff recognition award winners | NCSA receives funding for GENI research | NCSA to provide Ember as shared-memory resource for nation's researchers | NSF provides additional funding for Blue Waters | Bill Gropp elected to NAE | NSF awards $1.95 million to GroupScope project | ModelThis! a new Science Olympiad competition | TeraGrid conference to be in Pittsburgh
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