NCSA Video on Demand archive, page 7

Illinois' edream Institute kickoff event
Presentations made by Donna Cox, edream Director; Barbara Wilson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Vice Provost; Mike Ross, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Director; and Linda Katehi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Provost.
Posted: June 16, 2009

Illinois' new digital arts and media institute, edream, launched this spring. Led by NCSA's Donna Cox, it will give students a unique competitive edge in the growing creative industries that are driven by the digital arts.

Running time: 40:31
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~187 MB)
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Donna Cox on scientific visualization and Illinois' new edream Institute
Donna Cox, NCSA
Posted: June 4, 2009

Donna Cox, director of NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory, discusses the importance of visualizing scientific data -- both for researchers and for the general public. She also talks about Illinois' new edream Institute, which will give Illinois students a unique competitive edge in the growing creative industries that are driven by the digital arts.

Running time: 5:36
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~25 MB)
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Behind Blue Waters, volume 2
Bill Kramer, NCSA
Posted: May 19, 2009

Deputy Project Director Bill Kramer discusses NCSA and Illinois' long-term collaboration with IBM. That work will improve the software that runs on the Blue Waters sustained-petascale supercomputer and helps make up the open-source environment that runs on other large-scale systems.

Running time: 4:48
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~22 MB)
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Behind Blue Waters
Bill Kramer, NCSA
Posted: April 28, 2009

Deputy Project Director Bill Kramer describes working with scientists and engineers around the country on Blue Waters and talks about how new research teams can get involved. These relationships will help make Blue Waters the first supercomputer to achieve sustained-petaflops performance on a range of scientific research when the system comes online in 2011.

Running time: 5:09
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~24 MB)
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Big science calls for big computers
Tiziana Di Matteo, Carnegie Mellon University
Posted: April 14, 2009
Talk given: February 15, 2009

Astronomer Tiziana Di Matteo, Carnegie Mellon University, describes the importance of computing resources to her novel approach to understanding galaxy formation by tracking the growth of supermassive black holes. The complex theoretical modeling on which she relies will be accelerated by petascale supercomputers like Blue Waters, coming online at NCSA in 2011.

Running time: 20:43
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~97 MB)
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