News | National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois
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18 general, 9 exploratory allocations on Blue Waters awarded to Illinois researchers
New projects on the supercomputer include astronomy, aerospace engineering, atmospheric sciences, and more. Read more
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HPCwire honors Kevin Franklin for contributions to workforce diversity
The inaugural HPCwire Editors’ Choice award for exceptional leadership in promoting workforce diversity in the area of HPC is given to Kevin Franklin, executive director of the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (I-CHASS). Read more
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NCSA’s Private Sector Program Receives 3 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards
The awards recognized the PSP staff and their collaborators for scaling the Alya multiphysics code and improving the performance of a code used by Rolls-Royce. Read more
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Blue Waters enables detailed simulation of EF5 tornado
The researchers discovered storm-generated cooled air — created primarily by the evaporation of rain recycled back into the storm — that had never been seen in previous simulations. This recycling may help explain why some supercell thunderstorms spawn massive, devastating tornadoes. Read more
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NCSA Private Sector Program scales Fluent to 36,000 cores on Blue Waters
A collaboration involving NCSA, Cray, and ANSYS scaled the commercial CFD code to 36,000 compute cores – an industry first. Read more
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Coding Illini claim championship title at SC14
The Coding Illini took the top prize in the Intel Parallel Universe Computing Challenge (PUCC) at SC14. Read more
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NSF calls for proposals for ebola research
The National Science Foundation will rapidly review proposals to conduct non-medical, non-clinical research into Ebola, including proposals to use the Blue Waters petascale supercomputer. Read more
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NCSA intern presents research at Mayo Clinic
Industrial Engineering senior Nathan Russell received the 2014 Gianturco Family Foundation Scholarship to attend the Individualizing Medicine Conference at Mayo Clinic, where he presented his SPIN research. Read more
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NCSA-CompGen Graduate Fellowships available Spring 2015
NCSA and the CompGen initiative are sponsoring two Spring 2015 fellowships for graduate students working in biology, bioinformatics, computational biology, or biologically-relevant computational science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Read more
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NSF awards $1.5 million to NCSA team to create science documentaries
NSF awards $1.5 million to an NCSA-led project to develop a series of science documentaries highlighting visualizations of computational and digitally-enabled science. Read more
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Application now open for Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships
The fellowships will empower talented budding scientists and engineers to advance their HPC knowledge while also providing them with access to Blue Waters and support to accelerate their research. Read more
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Small birds, big science
A recent study—done with the help of XSEDE-allocated resources—has figured out the mathematical mechanisms behind hummingbird flight. Read more
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(Cloud + super) computing = results
Blue Waters and cloud resources are helping Vijay Pande's research group at Stanford analyze data to tackle serious diseases at the molecular level. Read more
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Vast digital realm
Brett Bode, head of NCSA's Advanced Digital Services, chats with Access editor Barbara Jewett about the contributions his directorate makes to the center's success. Read more
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More livable cities
A new center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks to create the knowledge and technologies that will enable today's cities to move toward becoming smarter and more livable. Read more
