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Nation’s researchers invited to apply for Blue Waters resources
The National Science Foundation has opened a call for requests for allocations on Blue Waters. Proposals are due by March 10. Read more
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Blue Waters helps team win best paper at SC13
The Blue Waters supercomputer was the driving petaflop power behind "Enabling Highly-Scalable Remote Memory Access Programming with MPI-3 One Sided," awarded best technical paper at SC13 on Nov. 21 in Denver, Co. Read more
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Crain’s Chicago spotlights Brown Dog data project
A group at NCSA is getting more than $10 million from NSF to develop tools to manage uncurated data. Read more
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Faculty sought for Virtual School
Blue Waters project to offer graduate-level online courses. Read more
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Coding Illini make it to the finals at SC13!
After defeating Team Ohio in round one, the Coding Illini defeated K2I18 (Rice University) in round two to advance into the finals of the first ever Intel Parallel Universe Computing Challenge at the SC13 conference in Denver. Read more
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Blue Waters places Illinois at the heart of big data universe
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Coding Illini defeat Team Ohio at SC13!
A team composed of NCSA staff and University of Illinois computer science graduate students defeated Team Ohio in round one of the first ever Intel Parallel Universe Computing Challenge at the SC13 conference in Denver. Read more
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Simulating Sandy
Using Blue Waters, a team of researchers from NCSA, NCAR and Cray simulated the evolution of Hurricane Sandy as it approached and made landfall. The simulation used a previously unsurpassed ~4 billion computation grid points. Read more
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Dunning speaks on role of HPC in education
NCSA director Thom Dunning gave an invited talk at SC13 on how computational simulation can revolutionize education. Read more
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NCSA Receives Honors in 2013 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards
NCSA received the HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in Life Sciences for the use of the Blue Waters supercomputer to achieve a significant breakthrough in the understanding of HIV. Read more
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NCSA team gets $10.5 million grant to develop software for un-curated data
A team at NCSA has been awarded more than $10 million over the next five years from the National Science Foundation to develop software to manage and make sense of vast amounts of digital scientific data. Read more
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Applications now being accepted for Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships
The fellowship is designed to support PhD students who are engaged in a program of study and research that is directly relevant to the use of the Blue Waters supercomputer. Read more
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NCSA launches new responsive website
NCSA has relaunched its website using the latest responsive design techniques to ensure that the site’s content is optimized for every screen, from desktop to tablet to smartphone. Read more
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Share best practices for campus research computing at January workshop
Professionals involved in operating and supporting campus shared research computing infrastructure are invited to participate in a best practices workshop on Advancing Research Computing on Campuses, Jan. 16-17, 2014, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Read more
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NCSA at SC13
Visit booth #1122 at SC13 to learn more about the Blue Waters supercomputer, our collaborations with industry, NCSA's data management and analysis expertise, and more. Read more
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