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Understanding Earth’s Geomagnetism with Blue Waters
Dr. Weijia Kuang from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is using Blue Waters to gain insights into the inner reaches of the Earth Read more
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Trusted CI collaboration receives $12.5 million renewal grant from NSF
Newly-awarded five-year funding ensures continued cybersecurity support of NSF research Read more
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Collaboration creates new way for farmers to estimate commodity payments
An online calculator developed at the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications for farmdoc helps farmers estimate payments from 2018 Farm Bill. Read more
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NCSA Partners to create NSF-funded FABRIC platform
NCSA partners in establishing FABRIC, a testbed for reimagining how data can be stored, computed and moved. Read more
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NCSA machine learning pipeline provides insight into energy-efficient home improvement programs
Using machine learning, a team at NCSA is working to analyze the costs of retrofitting homes for energy efficiency. Read more
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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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