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Solving their code's I/O problems leads to faster performance and a new step forward in seismological research for University of Wyoming researchers.
Release date: 2013-05-14
Blue Waters Symposium to feature new methods, results
Release date: 2013-05-08
Augmented reality app brings Alma back for commencement!
Artists and programmers across the Illinois campus, including NCSA's Alan Craig, came together to create a free augmented reality app that ensures the Class of 2013 will be able to share in a beloved U of I tradition by having their photo taken with a photo-realistic, high-resolution digital Alma Mater.
Release date: 2013-05-08
Register now for Virtual School summer courses on data-intensive and many-core computing
Release date: 2013-05-06
NCSA's Slagell guest blogs on Blue Waters and Bro
Release date: 2013-04-26
Blue Waters to help team better understand global precipitation
Release date: 2013-04-23
Undergraduate SPIN fellows to present their NCSA projects on May 1
Release date: 2013-04-19
Gropp discusses Blue Waters supercomputer on WILL Focus
Release date: 2013-04-16
XSEDE, Blue Waters help team improve earthquake simulation code
Release date: 2013-04-03
Blue Waters supercomputer now open for 24/7 science!
Today the Blue Waters supercomputer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign entered production, meaning the behemoth capable of performing quadrillions of calculations every second and working with quadrillions of bytes of data is now crunching numbers around the clock to help scientists and engineers across the country tackle a wide variety of science and engineering challenges.
Release date: 2013-03-28
NSF spotlights power of supercomputers
As the Blue Waters system at NCSA and Texas' Stampede both enter production, the National Science Foundation takes a closer look at the many ways supercomputers advance scientific discovery.
Release date: 2013-03-26
Great Lakes Consortium awards Blue Waters time to 10 projects
Release date: 2013-03-21
Illinois' 'pride and joy'
Crain's Chicago Business visited Blue Waters and was impressed by its powerful big computing and big data capabilities.
Release date: 2013-03-11
What is a petaflop?!
A petaflop refers to the completion of 1 quadrillion calculations per second. Look at this infographic to help you understand how amazingly huge quadrillions are
Release date: 2013-03-08
Kramer shares insights on HPC at workshop
NCSA's Bill Kramer was a plenary speaker recently at the 2013 Rice Oil and Gas HPC Workshop. He discussed why time to the solution is the only meaningful metric for HPC systems and how sustained performance is measured on Blue Waters, the relationship between big data and big compute and how storage enables high performance, and more.
Release date: 2013-03-05
See Blue Waters March 9!
Come to the National Petascale Computing Facility for an up-close look at Blue Waters, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world! Self-guided tours available 9 am to 3 pm March 9 in conjunction with Engineering Open House.
Release date: 2013-03-05
Extreme Scaling Workshop calls for presentations by May 15
Release date: 2013-02-28
How do scientists use supercomputers?
Sure supercomputers are fast and powerful, but what do they really DO? This video explains how scientists and engineers use mathematical models to understand galaxies, viruses, earthquakes, tornadoes, and more.
Release date: 2013-02-27
NCSA gifts supercomputer to Illinois genomic research center
Release date: 2013-02-18
Bill Gropp named Illinois' first Siebel Chair in Computer Science
Release date: 2013-02-13
NCSA helps reveal Great Lakes data
The Great Lakes Monitoring project—including contributions from NCSA—helps scientists and the public keep an eye on the Great Lakes' 94,000 square miles of water by aggregating and visualizing data, helping to answer fundamental questions about the lakes' health.
Release date: 2013-02-08
University of Illinois, NCSA planning llinois Manufacturing Lab
Release date: 2013-02-06
Applications due March 18 for International Summer School on HPC Challenges
Release date: 2013-02-04
Virus unmasked
Blue Waters enables a U.S./China collaboration to identify a key structure of a virus that causes a fatal disease in rabbits.
Release date: 2013-02-01
4 applications sustain 1 petaflop on BlueWaters
Four large-scale science applications (VPIC, PPM, QMCPACK and SPECFEM3DGLOBE) have sustained performance of 1 petaflop or more on the Blue Waters supercomputer, and the Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF) run on Blue Waters is the largest WRF simulation ever documented.
Release date: 2013-01-29
Illinois researchers invited to apply to use Blue Waters
The Blue Waters petascale supercomputer will soon enter full service, and University of Illinois faculty are invited to apply to use this powerful tool for research and education. Startup allocations are available for those who need to prepare code to run at petascale, and general allocations are intended for large-scale research and/or education projects. Allocations proposals are due February 15.
Release date: 2013-01-25
Bill Kramer and Bill Gropp are among people to watch in 2013 according to HPCwire
Release date: 2013-01-25
Illinois students begin SPIN fellowships
Illinois undergraduate students are embarking on semester-long fellowships at NCSA; they will be mentored by NCSA staff as they tackle projects in computer vision, data analysis, debugger development, and more.
Release date: 2013-01-15
Dow launches Innovation Center, partners with NCSA
Dow Chemical Company leverage NCSA's expertise in high-performance modeling and simulation and will develop data management solutions in collaboration with the University at the new Dow Innovation Center at the University's Research Park.
Release date: 2013-01-14
