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NCSA to take part in NSF-funded EarthCube Office
NCSA’s Kenton McHenry will be a Co-PI on a new phase of an initiative from the National Science Foundation which seeks to advance geoscience research collaborations. Read more
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Blue Waters computational resources available through 2020
NCSA will continue to provide supercomputing resources to University of Illinois researchers through the Blue Waters Project into 2020. Read more
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Breathe in, breathe out? It’s complicated
Biologists are learning that lungs in vertebrates seem to evolve and adapt to the environment. But there is still much to learn, and NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer is enabling those discoveries. Read more
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NCSA collaborates with NGA to create the world’s most powerful geospatial system
NCSA will receive $11.1 million in initial funding from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to fundamentally change the way the Earth is mapped. Read more
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NCSA’s Donna J. Cox to be honored at SIGGRAPH 2019
Donna Cox, Director of NCSA's Advanced Visualization Lab, will receive a lifetime achievement award and induction into the Academy at the SIGGRAPH conference for her groundbreaking work visualizing science and contributions to computer graphics. Read more
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The fragile balance of the most productive ecosystems
Using NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer to study two estuaries in New Hampshire changed the trajectory of Salme Cook’s research and yielded significant findings. Read more
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Simulating hurricanes with Blue Waters
Ryan Sriver, a researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is using a powerful supercomputer to figure out the effects of a changing climate on the frequency and intensity of hurricanes. Read more
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NCSA Student Spotlight: Antonio Abinader
Antonio implemented a production-ready installation of OpenStack for internal use at NCSA, then followed on to develop a solution to allow researchers to allocate Jupyter Notebooks using a scheduler on existing NCSA clusters such as Nano. Read more
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Midwest Big Data Hub successfully transitions to second phase with new NSF award
Under the planned four year, $4 million award, MBDH will continue to be led from NCSA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Read more
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Black hole simulation solves a mystery about their accretion disks
Scientists conducted the most detailed simulations of a black hole to date using a custom code and the GPUs on Blue Waters. A number of theoretical predictions regarding accretion disks have finally been validated. Read more
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Scientists Spearhead Convergence of AI and HPC for Cosmology
A collaboration, including NCSA's Gravity Group, is working to use Artificial Intelligence in tandem with supercomputers to advance cosmology. Read more
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NCSA’s Blue Waters Petascale Computing Hackathon now accepting applications
The deadline to apply is July 8, 2019. Read more
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NCSA Student Spotlight: Angelynn Huang and Sophia Torrellas
Two high-school students travel to New Mexico to present their research on computational genomics. Read more
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NCSA welcomes 2019-2020 Faculty Fellows
Seven Illinois faculty members selected for year-long collaborations with NCSA. Read more
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NCSA Student Spotlight: Adam Rebei
High school student begins building astronomical research portfolio before he’s old enough to drive. Read more
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