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Ten NCSA projects nominated for HPCWire Readers’ Choice Awards
Voting is now open for the 2018 edition of HPCWire's annual Readers' Choice Awards, to be presented at SC18 in Dallas next month. Read more
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What does it look like when two black holes collide?
Thanks to a new simulation from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the Blue Waters supercomputer at NCSA, we now have a pretty good idea what it looks like when two black holes collide. Read more
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Unzip, turn around, rezip
Using the Blue Waters supercomputer, University of Illinois researchers make new discoveries on how DNA gets repaired by a molecular machine, the first simulation work to provide an atomistic-level look at what is happening in the helicase. Read more
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Dark Energy Survey releases first year value-added data products
The Dark Energy Survey, led by NCSA, has just released a new set of data that catalogs over 130 million astronomical objects, including galaxies and stars. Read more
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LCI seeking host sites for 2019 workshops
These workshops provide education and technical training for the deployment and use of computing clusters to the high performance computing community worldwide. Read more
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Members of Illinois’ Nanomanufacturing Node develop new tool for building minuscule objects
Varun Kelkar and Mahfuzul Kabir have recently developed a new tool that can accurately simulate and predict the smallest possible constructible object from a given material, opening the door to research and commercial possibilities. Read more
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NCSA Faculty Fellow examines effects of gun violence in Chicago stress study exhibit
With unique, visual representations the exhibit details the women's stories in the wider context of Black inequality and racial trauma. Read more
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NCSA @ Grace Hopper Celebration 2018
Every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration brings together the world's largest gathering of female technologists. As part of NCSA's commitment to diversity, NCSA sponsors a select number of employees and post docs to attend the conference. Read more
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How a zombie fish may one day save your heart
Using the Blue Waters supercomputer, Illinois researcher Mattia Gazzola studies the interaction between musculoskeletal systems and environments. Read more
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Inaugural Ebert Symposium announced for October 1
Featuring astronaut and cinematographer Terry Virts, Ebertfest co-founder Chaz Ebert, NCSA's Donna Cox and many more, this symposium serves as a tribute to Roger Ebert and his commitment to empathy. Read more
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AXIS Capital and NCSA partner to reimagine insurance data
Global (re)insurance provider partners with NCSA to leverage NCSA’s domain expertise, data visualization, and cybersecurity. Read more
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NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer helps map the poles
The REMA project relied entirely on the computational and data resources of Blue Waters to run the SETSM software they developed that automated assembly of overlapping pairs of high-resolution satellite images to create the high-resolution, high-fidelity elevation maps. Read more
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Facilitating FEA: NCSA collaborates with Rolls-Royce, Livermore Software Technology Corporation, and Cray to scale up implicit finite element analysis
Drawing on real-life models from Rolls-Royce and technical consulting from Cray, NCSA and LSTC optimized LS-DYNA to reduce the memory footprint of running high-fidelity models and improve the software's performance and scalability. Read more
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NCSA visualization of powerful Joplin, MO. storm gives new insights into tornado formation
Using XSEDE resources and the power of NCSA's Data Analysis and Visualization group, a pair of Illinois researchers were able to accurately simulate an EF-5 tornado in Joplin, MO. from 2011. Read more
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NCSA Student Spotlight: Miguel Holgado
For our latest Student Spotlight, we caught up with Miguel Holgado, a graduate student and member of NCSA’s Gravity Group, who studies compact-object mergers and the gravitational waves that arise out of them. Read more
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