NCSA Video on Demand archive, page 5

Observing and understanding the Earth
Praveen Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Posted: January 20, 2009
Talk given: May 21, 2008

Illinois researcher and NCSA fellow Praveen Kumar discusses the challenges of understanding the complex Earth system -- its weather, climate, oceans, atmosphere, water, land, natural resources, ecosystems, and natural and human-induced hazards -- and how he is collaborating with NCSA to develop tools to aid and enhance that critical understanding.

Running time: 54:19
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~390 MB)
Full-size Flash video

Understanding social networks
Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Posted: January 6, 2009
Talk given: March 26, 2008

Library and information science researcher Caroline Haythornthwaite analyzes communal conversation, such as email, listservs, chat, and blogs. In collaboration with NCSA, Haythornthwaite is developing an environment to help researchers find meaningful patterns and networks in this enormous volume of text.

Running time: 01:04:18
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~480 MB)
Full-size Flash video

Illinois breaks ground on new Petascale Computing Facility
Posted: November 25, 2008
Talk given: November 5, 2008

The University of Illinois held a groundbreaking ceremony for the $72.5 million Illinois Petascale Computing Facility on Nov. 5, 2008. Work on the 88,000-square-foot building that will house the Blue Waters sustained-petaflop supercomputer is under way at the corner of Oak Street and St. Mary's Road in Champaign.

Running time: 31:58
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~300 MB)
Full-size Flash video

Blue Waters: Keeping the focus on productivity
Rob Pennington, NCSA
Posted: November 18, 2008
Talk given: May 14, 2008

NCSA deputy director Rob Pennington discusses the Blue Waters project, which will build and deploy a computing system capable of delivering performance of 1 petaflop (1 quadrillion calculations per second) on a range of science and engineering applications.

Running time: 35:36
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~260 MB)
Full-size Flash video

The Computational Microscope
Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Posted: October 28, 2008
Talk given: May 14, 2008

University of Illinois researcher Klaus Schulten discusses how NCSA's high-performance computing systems advance his biomolecular research, and how the Blue Waters sustained petaflop system will enable scientists in his field to reach new breakthroughs.

Running time: 01:22:51
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~607 MB)
Full-size Flash video