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Terascala joins NCSA Private Sector Program
Release date: 2012-12-12
Illinois faculty/staff invited to apply for fellowships to support collaboration with NCSA
Release date: 2012-12-11
John Melchi takes on new leadership responsibilities as NCSA deputy executive director
Release date: 2012-12-05
Illinois College of Engineering seeking Blue Waters Professors
Release date: 2012-11-29
Changing the world
Cray President and CEO Peter J. Ungaro recently spoke with Access' Barbara Jewett about why the company Seymour Cray founded continues to be inimitable.
Release date: 2012-11-14
T. rex on your desk!
You are probably familiar with virtual reality, interactive apps, and handheld computers, but have you heard of their progeny, augmented reality?
Release date: 2012-11-14
Harmonic convergence
Many institutes dedicated to applying advanced computing to a range of fields and issues share a single building on the University of Illinois campus, and the close quarters aid their collaboration and cross-pollination.
Release date: 2012-11-14
Doing with less
Researchers used NCSA's Forge to improve computational protein structure modeling.
Release date: 2012-11-14
Duo image
The NCSA visualization team of David Bock and Mark Van Moer provides technical expertise and assistance to computational scientists and researchers desiring to represent and analyze data generated by computational models to facilitate the understanding of the simulated phenomena.
Release date: 2012-11-14
Top problems with the TOP500
NCSA's Bill Kramer argues that the TOP500 list as it is currently compiled does not provide an accurate evaluation of supercomputers and that broader, more accurate metrics are needed. NCSA will not submit data on the Blue Waters petascale supercomputer for the TOP500 list.
Release date: 2012-11-12
Blue Waters One Year Later: Delivering Sustained Petascale Science
One year ago, NCSA and Cray joined forces to create the Blue Waters sustained petascale computing system. Over the past year, the entire system has been deployed and is performing well in acceptance tests, delivering sustained performance of 1 petaflop on a range of science and engineering apps.
Release date: 2012-11-09
New NCSA team to focus on big science and engineering data challenges
Release date: 2012-11-08
XSEDE13: Call for Participation
Release date: 2012-11-06
Blue Waters now available to friendly users
The full Blue Waters petascale computing system is now available in "friendly-user" mode to the National Science Foundation-approved science and engineering teams. These groups from across the country will use Blue Waters for challenging research in weather and climate, astrophysics, biomolecular systems, and other fields.
Release date: 2012-11-06
Department of Homeland Security funds project to improve software security
Release date: 2012-11-01
HPCbio's Jongeneel participating in African bioinformatics effort
Release date: 2012-10-26
NCSA at SC12
NCSA will showcase its expertise in extreme-scale computing, data-driven science, and cyberinfrastructure at the 2012 Supercomputing Conference in Salt Lake City. Find out more about what NCSA has planned for the SC12 technical program and exhibit at www.ncsa.illinois.edu/extreme-scale.
Release date: 2012-10-26
A minute with... Thom Dunning, director of NCSA
Release date: 2012-10-15
I-CHASS, NCSA, XSEDE partner on planned computational workshop in Guatemala
Release date: 2012-10-12
Bill Kramer describes Blue Waters' big computing, big data capabilities
Release date: 2012-10-12
Illinois professors Kale, Schulten earn 2012 IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award
Release date: 2012-10-11
New NSF-funded project fills the cybersecurity gap for science
Release date: 2012-10-09
Jerry Fiddler to give talk on innovation at NCSA SPIN
Release date: 2012-10-05
Giles details study on challenges in industry use of HPC
Release date: 2012-10-03
Dunning to retire as NCSA director in 2013
After nearly eight years at the helm of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Thom H. Dunning Jr. has announced that he will retire as the center's director in 2013. He will remain as NCSA's leader until the University of Illinois completes a national search for his successor and then plans to continue as a professor in the University's Department of Chemistry.
Release date: 2012-09-28
'Making science and engineering history'
Researchers achieved impressive results during a tantalizing test run of the Blue Waters sustained petascale supercomputer earlier this year. According to biophysicist Klaus Schulten, "We are sure Blue Waters will make science and engineering history."
Release date: 2012-09-24
Inside Illinois profiles NCSA computer operations manager Mike Pingleton
Release date: 2012-09-20
Illinois' HPCbio provides support for genomics research
Release date: 2012-09-20
NCSA joins in planning for Water Science Software Institute
Release date: 2012-09-19
World's most powerful digital camera records first images in hunt for dark energy
The Dark Energy Camera, the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created, has for the first time captured and recorded ancient starlight that may hold the answer to one of the biggest mysteries in physics—why the expansion of the universe is speeding up. Scientists in the international Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration will use this camera to undertake the largest galaxy survey ever attempted, and the massive amounts of data will be processed and stored at NCSA.
Release date: 2012-09-17
"Bioinformatics Challenge" relies on NCSA brains and brawn
Release date: 2012-09-14
NCSA invites Illinois students to Oct. 24 innovation event, offers paid fellowships
Release date: 2012-09-12
NCSA aims to reduce disruption caused by end of support for Mass Storage System
Release date: 2012-09-11
Researcher opinions needed for XSEDE-NSF Cloud Use Survey
Release date: 2012-09-10
AVL and eDream work with Krannert Center for "Tao of Bach"
Members of the Advanced Visualization Lab and eDream collaborated with Krannert Center, Tai Ji master Chungliang Al Huang, and a quartet of musicians for Sept. 13 performance that will bring together visualization technology, dance, and music.
Release date: 2012-09-05
New NCSA staff members will help businesses use HPC modeling
Release date: 2012-09-05
Deep and wide
An Illinois team uses NCSA resources to help humans understand their environment.
Release date: 2012-08-28
Campus Champions advance research
Knowledgeable XSEDE volunteers serve as a source of information, guidance, and support for their institutions.
Release date: 2012-08-28
What a year!
XSEDE's John Towns reflects on the activities that happened in the first year of starting the project.
Release date: 2012-08-27
No magic wands
Victor Jongeneel leads the bioinformatics efforts of NCSA and the University of Illinois. He recently spoke with Access' Barbara Jewett about what bioinformatics is—and is not.
Release date: 2012-08-27
Tantalizing glimpses
The NCSA visualization tradition continues with the Blue Waters project.
Release date: 2012-08-27
Behind the scenes of NCSA: Work for bandwidth
What would it be like to come to work and not have a functioning network? The NCSA Network Engineering group ensures that doesn't happen. Team members Tim Boerner, Nick Buraglio, Paul Wefel, and David Wheeler see that NCSA staff, computing resources, and researchers are served by networks that are fast, reliable, and adaptable.
Release date: 2012-08-27
IACAT fellow Prashant Jain named one of world's top young innovators by Technology Review
Release date: 2012-08-23
NCSA celebrates big computing, big data with Petascale Day
The Blue Waters supercomputer and NCSA's massive data system have reached the "petascale," which refers to computing and data in the quadrillions. To celebrate, we'll host a variety of fun, free activities—from tours to movies—on Petascale Day this Oct. 15.
Release date: 2012-08-22
6 additional Illinois fellows selected for collaborations with NCSA
Release date: 2012-08-21
Cyprus Institute, Illinois offer fellowships for graduate and post-doc research
Release date: 2012-08-15
Nearly 600 attend first XSEDE conference
With nearly 600 attendees, the first annual conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), held July 16-20 in Chicago, was a big success. Read more about the highlights of the conference.
Release date: 2012-08-13
Great Lakes Consortium members invited to apply for Blue Waters access
Release date: 2012-08-09
NCSA's Alan Craig joins XSEDE as humanities, arts, social sciences specialist
Release date: 2012-08-08
SAAHPC 2012 Best Paper Award goes to 'Power Aware Computing on GPUs'
Release date: 2012-08-08
XSEDE, PRACE call for input on collaboration
Release date: 2012-07-17
George Mason climate researcher Stan prepares to use Blue Waters
Release date: 2012-07-16
IACAT fellowships support diverse collaborative projects
Release date: 2012-07-09
NCSA's iForge cluster gets upgrade
Release date: 2012-07-09
Presentations available from Summer School on Molecular and Multiscale Simulation
Release date: 2012-06-29
Illinois team uses Ember to simulate 1 million-grain cube of steel
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign used NCSA's Ember to simulate the elastic-plastic transition of a 1 million-grain cube of grade-316 steel under pure shear stress. It is thought to be the largest nonlinear simulation in which each grain has different material characteristics.
Release date: 2012-06-29
NCSA supports Illinois Campus Cluster Program
High-performance computing has become essential to research in many disciplines across the Illinois campus, including astronomy, physics, chemistry, engineering, and more. The Illinois Campus Cluster Program helps meet this campus-wide need for research computing cycles, and NCSA provides critical administration and support services.
Release date: 2012-06-28
NCSA networking intern gets head start on computer science degree
Release date: 2012-06-22
SIGGRAPH to feature work by NCSA visualization team
Release date: 2012-06-19
NCSA, Korean science and technology center form joint supercomputing laboratory
Release date: 2012-06-11
Turning data into art
AJ Christensen from NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory describes the process the group goes through to transform scientific data into data-driven visualizations for IMAX films, planetarium shows, and documentaries.
Release date: 2012-06-08
NAMD 2.9 Goes Viral on Blue Waters
With the 2.9 release of NAMD, which includes a new high-performance interface to the Cray Gemini network of Blue Waters, scientists are now able to simulate the first all-atom structure of an HIV virus capsid in its tubular form.
Release date: 2012-06-08
Early registration for Extreme Scaling workshop ends June 15
Release date: 2012-06-05
NCSA planning 500 petabytes of storage capacity
NCSA is adding 380 petabytes of automated, near-line storage capacity for data produced by scientists and engineers using the sustained petascale Blue Waters supercomputer and to support other projects. The center plans to eventually scale this dynamic, high-performance storage system to more than half an exabyte (>500 petabytes).
Release date: 2012-05-22
NCSA 2015
Every five years NCSA undertakes the development of a new strategic plan. The strategic planning process gives NCSA leadership and staff an opportunity to critically examine our activities during the past five years as well as look forward to where research, education and technology are going in the next five years.
Release date: 2012-05-22
Serving the world of science
Alan Blatecky, head of the National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure, recently chatted with Access' Barbara Jewett about the new visions at OCI and NSF.
Release date: 2012-05-22
A moving question
NCSA and XSEDE aid an Indiana University researcher studying the migration of massive planets in protoplanetary disks. Understanding how planets shift is one of the first steps in the quest to discover other life in the universe.
Release date: 2012-05-22
Jump-starting the hydrogen economy
With computing resources from XSEDE, engineers at Ohio University explore ammonia as a source of hydrogen for tomorrow's fuel cells.
Release date: 2012-05-22
Behind the scenes of NCSA: Image miners
The Image, Spatial, and Data Analysis Group (ISDA) conducts research and development involving image and video data. Sifting through the state of the art in computer vision the ISDA group applies research to real world problems while striving to build robust multipurpose software to serve a variety of community needs.
Release date: 2012-05-22
4 more research groups using Blue Waters Early Science System
Four additional research teams have begun using the first phase of the Blue Waters sustained-petascale supercomputer to tackle challenging problems in science and engineering. They join six research groups that began using the system in March.
Release date: 2012-05-21
XSEDE12 registration now open
Release date: 2012-05-14
NCSA to host FREE summer courses on heterogeneous programming, many-core processors
Release date: 2012-05-03
Timing is everything
NCSA's GPU machines allow researchers to improve the fluid dynamics codes used for rotorcraft design.
Release date: 2012-05-02
Illinois-Cyprus collaboration spans computing, cultural heritage, and more
For several years, the University of Illinois and the Cyprus Institute have been partners in an effort to establish a supercomputing center, and other expanded digital research capabilities, in the Eastern Mediterranean. Many of the diverse research activities encompassed by this collaboration are now bearing fruit for both partners.
Release date: 2012-04-26
Registration now open for Blue Waters/XSEDE Extreme Scaling Workshop
Release date: 2012-04-25
Simulating supernovae with Blue Waters
Chris Malone and Andy Nonaka explains how their UC Santa Cruz/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory team is using the Blue Waters Early Science System to study how carbon and oxygen burn to iron during the initial stages of thermonuclear runaway as a white dwarf goes supernova.
Release date: 2012-04-25
NCSA deploys GPU-enabled TeraChem software on Forge cluster
Release date: 2012-04-19
Understanding space weather with Blue Waters
Homayoun Karimabadi from the University of California-San Diego explains how his team is using the Blue Waters Early Science System to investigate magnetic reconnection, which triggers storms on the sun and allows the sun's radiation to enter Earth's magnetosphere.
Release date: 2012-04-17
Merle Giles discusses HPC as a service at MoabCon 2012
Release date: 2012-04-16
FREE Abaqus training at NCSA this Friday (April 13)
Release date: 2012-04-10
NCSA's Forge to be decommissioned in September
Release date: 2012-04-10
Peter Ungaro: The Changing Landscape of High Performance Computing
Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray Inc., gave a talk on "The Changing Landscape of High Performance Computing" at NCSA on March 14. This talk was co-sponsored by NCSA and the Illinois Parallel Computing Institute.
Release date: 2012-04-03
Submissions due May 11 for Symposium on Application Accelerators
Release date: 2012-04-03
Position papers sought for Conference on Space, Time, and CyberGIS
Release date: 2012-04-03
Blue Waters visualization team provides first science images
With the first portion of the Blue Waters petascale supercomputer now being used by six science teams, the Blue Waters visualization team is using scalable visualization software to produce some of the first science images from the Blue Waters project.
Release date: 2012-04-03
Call for participation: Symposium on Computation Chemistry at the Petascale
Release date: 2012-03-30
Containing multitudes
NCSA is helping humanities and social science scholars analyze troves of data about worlds both real and virtual, shedding light on human behavior.
Release date: 2012-03-29
Submissions sought for Blue Waters/XSEDE Extreme Scaling Workshop
Release date: 2012-03-26
6 science teams begin using Blue Waters Early Science System
Six research teams have begun using the first phase of the Blue Waters sustained-petascale supercomputer to study some of the most challenging problems in science and engineering, from supernovae to climate change to the molecular mechanism of HIV infection.
Release date: 2012-03-21
iForge: a supercomputer for industry
Merle Giles, Evan Burness and Seid Koric from NCSA's Private Sector Program explain how the center's industry partners benefit from iForge, a supercomputer specifically designed for their needs.
Release date: 2012-03-20
XSEDE 12 seeks papers on science, education, outreach, training
Release date: 2012-03-16
NCSA's visualization team goes where no filmmaker has gone before
Release date: 2012-03-07
Behind Blue Waters, volume 9
Cray's Steve Samse showed NCSA the compute blades that include Blue Waters' processors, interconnect, and memory—the heart of what will be one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.
Release date: 2012-03-06
Illinois supercomputers, expertise to help determine winner of genomics prize
Release date: 2012-02-27
XSEDE Extended Collaborative Support program shares insights via symposium series
Release date: 2012-02-22
Torsten Hoefler wins 2012 SIAG/Supercomputing Junior Scientist Prize
Release date: 2012-02-20
Adaptive Computing forms software development partnership with NCSA
Release date: 2012-02-16
Gropp: How fast is Blue Waters?
Release date: 2012-02-16
NCSA visualizations help capture 'Dynamic Earth'
NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory created data-driven scientific visualizations of Hurricane Katrina and the harsh terrain of Venus for "Dynamic Earth," a new immersive digital fulldome production that follows the trail of energy that flows from the sun into the Earth's atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere.
Release date: 2012-02-03
Blue Waters "Early Science System" delivered to NCSA
Forty-eight cabinets of the Blue Waters sustained-petascale supercomputer have arrived at the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications and were powered up over the last few days.
Release date: 2012-01-30
Blue Waters to use Globus Online for data movement
Release date: 2012-01-23
Call for participation: XSEDE12
Release date: 2012-01-20
Transforming computing
NCSA Director Thom Dunning is excited about partnering with Cray on the Blue Waters project, and by the capability and performance of the system that Cray will provide.
Release date: 2012-01-10
Catch the wave
Modeling and simulation using NCSA resources help scientists advance work with supernovas.
Release date: 2012-01-10
Behind the scenes of NCSA: Blue Waters
Every day, over 60 people at the center use their technical knowledge and expertise to deal with the thousands of minute details involved in a project of this magnitude. Their eyes are on the ultimate goal: providing an incredible computing resource for the nation's scientists and engineers in 2012.
Release date: 2012-01-10
Different strokes for different folks
Simulations using NCSA's Abe help psychologists better understand how human beings carve out cultural niches.
Release date: 2012-01-10
Breaking business models
Almost as soon as NCSA opened, the center began collaborating with companies.
Release date: 2012-01-10
User reflections: Al Valocchi
Longtime NCSA partner Al Valocchi reflects back on 25 years of working with the center's resources.
Release date: 2012-01-10
Leap to whole-cell simulations
Researchers have built a computer model of the crowded interior of a bacterial cell that—in a test of its response to sugar in its environment—accurately simulates the behavior of living cells.
Release date: 2012-01-10
Bigger isn't better
Researchers team up to get a closer, longer look at the actions of smaller biological structures by preparing the AMBER code to take advantage of Blue Waters.
Release date: 2012-01-10
Illinois data center rated LEED Gold
Release date: 2012-01-09
Illinois faculty/staff invited to apply for fellowships to support collaboration with NCSA
Release date: 2012-01-06
NCSA helps filmmakers show dangers of 'Space Junk'
NCSA's Advanced Visualization Lab created data-driven scientific visualizations for the new film Space Junk 3D," which focuses on the growing collection of debris orbiting the earth.
Release date: 2012-01-06
Free D.C. office/meeting space available to Illinois faculty and staff
Release date: 2012-01-03
