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.
Release date: 2009-11-12
Doing the best
Since the National Science Foundation gave the nod to build Blue Waters—a sustained petascale computer for open scientific research—NCSA, the University of Illinois, IBM, and partners around the country have been collaborating on the machine and a facility to house it. Building the two simultaneously 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.
Release date: 2009-11-12
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.
Release date: 2009-11-12
Risky business
University of Illinois professors use NCSA computers to study how the economic environment and financial institutions influence entrepreneur behavior.
Release date: 2009-11-12
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.
Release date: 2009-11-12
Computing crops
A collaboration between University of Illinois Extension and NCSA is putting tools for scientific inquiry and learning at 4-H'ers fingertips.
Release date: 2009-11-12
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.
Release date: 2009-11-12
Oscillons: Lumps in the primordial soup
Using NCSA's Abe supercomputer Middlebury College physicist Noah Graham is simulating conditions to create oscillons from the early formation of the universe.
Release date: 2009-11-12
Great Lakes Consortium to host informational meeting at SC09
Release date: 2009-11-11
NCSA, Parallel@Illinois join forces for teleimmersive duel at SC09
Release date: 2009-11-06
NCSA answers questions about GPU computing
Graphics processing units (GPUs) aren't just for graphics anymore. These high-performance "many-core" processors are increasingly being used to accelerate a wide range of science and engineering applications, in many cases offering dramatically increased performance compared to CPUs. But many questions surround the use of GPUs. Here IACAT and NCSA staff who work with GPUs provide some answers.
Release date: 2009-11-03
Chemistry education program spotlighted in D.C.
NCSA'ers Edee Norman Wiziecki and Dave Mattson will be in Washington, D.C., this week to spotlight the Institute for Chemistry Literacy Through Computational Science. They are participating in an an Education Technology Showcase on Capitol Hill on Nov. 4.
Release date: 2009-11-03
NCSA participates in 3D streaming demonstration
Release date: 2009-11-03
NCSA to host SC09 BOF on the Blue Waters allocation process
Release date: 2009-11-02
POINT/VI-HPS projects offer parallel performance tools on convenient LiveDVD
Release date: 2009-11-02
Where future is leading (Petascale and beyond)
Chris Maher, director of HPC Development for the IBM Systems & Technology Group, speaks at the 2009 NCSA Private Sector Program Annual Meeting.
Release date: 2009-10-27
NSF provides additional funding for Blue Waters project
Release date: 2009-10-26
NCSA and Blue Waters team partner with new Petascale Computing Resource Allocation winners
Release date: 2009-10-15
NCSA's Slagell co-edits book on computer security
Release date: 2009-10-13
Opportunities and challenges of new computing technology
NCSA Director Thom Dunning discusses the opportunities in computational modeling and simulation offered by new technologies and the challenges involved in realizing the full potential of these new computing systems.
Release date: 2009-10-13
Stephen Hawking narrates NCSA visualizations for Canadian festival
Release date: 2009-10-12
NCSA's Von Welch receives funding for GENI research
Release date: 2009-10-12
NCSA's Welge part of Illinois team receiving $2.9 million DataNet grant
Release date: 2009-10-09
Mahomet Aquifer dance to be performed Oct. 10-18
Release date: 2009-10-05
NCSA a key partner in next-generation data analysis center
Release date: 2009-09-30
Behind Blue Waters, volume 6
NCSA's John Melchi highlights progress made on the Illinois Petascale Computing Facility, focusing on the energy efficiency of the building's electrical system. The Petascale Computing Facility will house Blue Waters, the world's first sustained-petascale supercomputer for open scientific research.
Release date: 2009-09-29
NCSA's Ceperley part of team that will build superconductivity simulator
Release date: 2009-09-23
Dunning on editorial board for new journal
Release date: 2009-09-21
Workshop brings together researchers from U.S. and China
Release date: 2009-09-18
NSF supports project to analyze medieval manuscripts
Release date: 2009-09-16
Behind Blue Waters, volume 5
NCSA's Bob Fiedler talks about scaling up scientific codes to run on the massive Blue Waters supercomputer by working with those codes' developers. He also discusses the National Science Foundation's Petascale Computing Resource Allocations program, which supports these efforts.
Release date: 2009-09-16
Follow NCSA on Facebook
Release date: 2009-09-14
Animations on display at guitar festival
Release date: 2009-09-09
Institute for Chemistry Literacy Through Computational Science
As part of the ICLCS, rural school teachers refresh their chemistry skills and learn to use computational tools in the classroom. Teachers in the program discuss their experiences.
Release date: 2009-09-01
Getting viral
Some early prospective users of Blue Waters will build computing code for global epidemic models.
Release date: 2009-09-01
NCSA aids water-quality project
Release date: 2009-08-31
NCSA researchers receive NSF grant to deploy cyberinfrastructure logon service
Release date: 2009-08-28
Students pursue open-source projects with NCSA through Google Summer of Code™
Release date: 2009-08-27
Exciting times as applications are allocated to Blue Waters
Release date: 2009-08-25
In the wind
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.
Release date: 2009-08-25
The perfect pair
Researchers rely on NCSA's Mercury to overcome a major barrier in shrinking capacitors for microelectronics use.
Release date: 2009-08-25
Hydrogen harvest
A computational approach and NCSA resources help MIT researchers better understand the process of manufacturing hydrogen.
Release date: 2009-08-25
Moving targets
A research team is using NCSA resources to develop new methods of studying fluid‑structure interaction and modeling of turbulence on moving grids.
Release date: 2009-08-25
A radioactive topic
Materials used for radioactive-waste storage must be especially resilient. NCSA and TeraGrid resources help researchers identify and understand next-generation candidates.
Release date: 2009-08-25
Procter & Gamble partners with NCSA
Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble Co. is the newest member of NCSA's Private Sector Program. Tom Lange, P&G's director of corporate research and development modeling and simulation, describes how computer simulation benefits the company.
Release date: 2009-08-18
Power to change everyday life
Release date: 2009-08-18
NCSA researchers receive patent for system that finds holes in knowledge bases
Release date: 2009-08-03
NCSA computers power honey bee research
For NCSA Faculty Fellow Saurabh Sinha, a University of Illinois assistant professor of computer science, supercomputing resources were an essential resource for research into the genetic roots of honey bees' social behavior.
Release date: 2009-07-28
NCSA staffer to lead Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science
Release date: 2009-07-22
NCSA's Peter Bajcsy to guest edit special issue of ACM journal
Release date: 2009-07-22
NCSA's Alan Craig co-authors virtual reality book
Release date: 2009-07-15
Behind Blue Waters, volume 4
Brett Bode, software development manager for the Blue Waters project, discusses making it easier for researchers to move their scientific codes from other systems to the sustained-petascale supercomputer. He also talks about some of the new programming models that may be used for codes running on Blue Waters and partner institutions' work on performance tuning and software development models.
Release date: 2009-07-14
Genome-wide search for regulatory sequences in a newly sequenced genome: comparative genomics in the large divergence regime
Saurabh Sinha, a University of Illinois assistant professor of computer science, talks about his research using NCSA's supercomputers.
Release date: 2009-07-10
Cyber Connoisseurship: Tools to Aid Understanding of the Medieval French Book Trade
Anne Hedeman, an Illinois professor of art history and medieval studies, worked with image analysis experts at NCSA to gain insights into the Medieval French book trade through close analysis of a collection of manuscripts.
Release date: 2009-07-10
Petascale Distributed Computing for Terascale Physics
When Illinois physics professor Mark Neubauer discusses his work in physics and his collaboration with NCSA, the recurring theme is big -- big questions about the universe, big instruments generating big data, and the need for big computing resources to make big discoveries.
Release date: 2009-07-10
LSST-NCSA: A Partnership to Change the Way Science is Done
Release date: 2009-07-06
Behind Blue Waters, volume 3
Senior Associate Director John Melchi gives a tour of the Illinois Petascale Computing Facility. This state-of-the-art data center will be home to Blue Waters -- the world's first sustained-petascale supercomputer for open scientific research -- and to future extreme-scale systems for decades to come.
Release date: 2009-06-30
SAAHPC hotel block closes July 5
Release date: 2009-06-29
NCSA researchers receive NSF grant for cyberinfrastructure security software
Release date: 2009-06-29
NCSA, I-CHASS provide 1 million hours of supercomputing time to projects in the humanities, arts, social sciences
Release date: 2009-06-25
NCSA researcher wins National Science Foundation CAREER award
Release date: 2009-06-18
Illinois' edream Institute kickoff event
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.
Release date: 2009-06-17
NCSA awards fellowships to Illinois researchers
Release date: 2009-06-16
University of Illinois and French research institute partner on joint laboratory
Release date: 2009-06-11
Donna Cox on scientific visualization and Illinois' new edream Institute
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.
Release date: 2009-06-04
Blue Waters partner wins scaling award
Release date: 2009-05-26
NCSA's Ian Brooks receives informatics grant
Release date: 2009-05-21
Behind Blue Waters, volume 2
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.
Release date: 2009-05-19
NCSA to provide live streaming video of Private Sector Program meeting
Release date: 2009-05-05
Deadline is May 18 to apply for two free computational skills summer schools
Release date: 2009-04-28
Behind Blue Waters
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.
Release date: 2009-04-28
NCSA hosts hands-on accelerators workshop
Release date: 2009-04-27
Study of chromosome breakpoints aided by tool developed at NCSA
Release date: 2009-04-23
Video available from Charm++ workshop
Release date: 2009-04-22
Visiting artist collaborates on restaging of "Astral Convertible"
Release date: 2009-04-20
Registration is now open for SAAHPC'09
Release date: 2009-04-20
NCSA researchers receive grant from Boeing
Release date: 2009-04-17
Ready on day 1
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. Scientists and engineers who use these applications are working closely with computing experts, including staff from IBM, through Petascale Application Collaboration Teams (PACTs) to achieve this unprecedented level of performance.
Release date: 2009-04-15
A stimulating test of abilities
The National Science Foundation (NSF) outlined several science and engineering problems that a sustained petascale computer should address when it issued the solicitation for Blue Waters. Through the PACTs, scientists and engineers who use these applications are working closely with computing experts to address the specific challenges outlined by NSF, as well as other computational problems at this large scale. Lessons learned in optimizing one application will be applied to others as appropriate.
Release date: 2009-04-15
Realizing the dream
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. Access' Barbara Jewett sat down with her and Kelly Searsmith, the institute's assistant director for planning and development, to learn more about the institute and digital arts media.
Release date: 2009-04-15
They love a challenge
University of Illinois engineers use NCSA resources to score in an international data retrieval competition and to advance automatic speech and video recognition.
Release date: 2009-04-15
Exotic molecules
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.
Release date: 2009-04-15
Closing the gaps
Biophysicists at the University of Pennsylvania used NCSA's Abe to clarify a mysterious interaction between cholesterol and neurotransmitter receptors.
Release date: 2009-04-15
Building toward Blue Waters
NCSA has several systems that are being used as stepping stones for the sustained petaflop system that will come online in 2011.
Release date: 2009-04-15
Reimaging performance
Release date: 2009-04-15
Deadline for SAAHPC'09 extended to May 4
Release date: 2009-04-15
Big science calls for big computers
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.
Release date: 2009-04-14
Abstract submissions due April 20 for SAAHPC'09
Release date: 2009-04-09
Mentoring workshop to be held at NCSA in conjunction with SAAHPC
Release date: 2009-04-09
NCSA's Merle Giles to speak at HPC Adoption '09
Release date: 2009-04-07
Big, small and everything in between: simulating our world using scientific computing
During a symposium at the recent annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Princeton seismologist Jeroen Tromp describes his team's efforts to simulate global seismic wave propagation, a frontier that can be explored only through large-scale computation. He will describe problems that the sustained petascale computing power of Blue Waters will help seismologists address.
Release date: 2009-03-31
NCSA's Kindratenko to guest edit special issue of journal focused on accelerators
Release date: 2009-03-31
New molecular force probe stretches molecules, atom by atom
Release date: 2009-03-30
Students can work with NCSA through Google Summer of Code
Release date: 2009-03-26
Virtual learning space
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.
Release date: 2009-03-25
NCSA hosts training webinar on CUDA
Release date: 2009-03-19
Graduate students can gain computational skills at two summer schools
Release date: 2009-03-17
Applying high-performance computing to business
Illinois business professor Michael Shaw describes how the use of high-performance computing can change the range of capabilities available for enterprise-wide decision support systems by empowering businesses to perform tasks in real-time and on a level of complexity not achievable before.
Release date: 2009-03-17
Girls can apply for GEMS astronomy program until March 30
Release date: 2009-03-12
NCSA receives almost $600,000 to build community of science education advocates
Release date: 2009-03-10
Intel's Pradeep Dubey to give keynote at application accelerators symposium
Release date: 2009-03-09
NCSA contributes to planetarium shows
Release date: 2009-03-04
NCSA fellow studies embryonic stem cells
Embryonic stem cells have great potential to treat diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and diabetes. Using NCSA's computing resources, Illinois professor Sheng Zhong researches the transcriptional control that is thought to be key to these stem cells maintaining their undifferentiated state.
Release date: 2009-03-03
Students invited to participate in 2009 TeraGrid conference
Release date: 2009-03-03
TeraGrid conference seeks submissions on education, outreach, and training
Release date: 2009-03-02
MyProxy passes independent vulnerability assessment
Release date: 2009-02-23
HASTAC conference to be held at Illinois April 19-21
Release date: 2009-02-18
University of Illinois and Cyprus Institute partner on research center
Release date: 2009-02-16
Proposals sought for Undergraduate Petascale Education Program
Release date: 2009-02-12
Combining high tech with the ancient world
Illinois religion professor Wayne Pitard describes the Inscriptifact project, which allows users to access high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds. As an NCSA Faculty Fellow, Pitard collaborated with staff from the Illinois Institute for Computing in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Science (I-CHASS).
Release date: 2009-02-03
2009 TeraGrid Conference seeks submissions
Release date: 2009-02-02
NCSA sponsors panel, showcases visualizations at AAAS
Release date: 2009-02-02
NCSA researcher calculates ideal materials
Release date: 2009-01-29
Submissions sought for symposium on accelerators
Release date: 2009-01-22
Observing and understanding the Earth
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.
Release date: 2009-01-20
NCSA releases SELS 1.0 on SourceForge
Release date: 2009-01-15
Waterborne Environmental to work with NCSA informatics team
Release date: 2009-01-08
Understanding social networks
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.
Release date: 2009-01-06
