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The Barcelona Supercomputing Center and NCSA's Private Sector Program scaled the Alya multi-physics code to 100,000 cores on Blue Waters.
Read moreAlya code scaled to 100,000 cores on Blue Waters supercomputer
Why does high-performance computing matter? Because discovery matters! Watch and like this short video explaining why #HPCMatters.
Read moreHPC Matters!
On April 28 the four co-chairs of the House Science and National Labs Caucus sponsored a briefing on the value of federal investment in high-performance computing.
Read moreHouse briefing highlights value of supercomputers for science, industry
NCSA's Ryan Mokos helps Illinois geologist Liujun Liu prepare to run on Blue Waters, which he calls "the best tool we have found."
Read morePreparing for breakthrough geology
Six outstanding computational science PhD students from across the country have been selected to receive the first Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships.
Read moreSix PhD students from across the country selected as Blue Waters Graduate Fellows
Major corporate computer breaches put computer security in the public eye, only for security thoughts to wane until the next big breach. For NCSA’s cybersecurity team, keeping systems safe and fending off attacks is an ongoing job.
Read moreCyber cowboys
An algorithm developed by University of Arkansas engineers aids both computational scientists and experimentalists exploring the atomic scale structure of materials.
Read moreA direct bridge
The Blue Waters project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will offer an online graduate-level course on many-core computing in fall 2014 and is seeking university partners who are interested in offering the course for credit to their students.
Read moreBlue Waters project to offer online course on many-core computing
This summer the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host two summer workshops offered by the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering.
Read moreNCSA to host summer workshops on data-intensive computing and harnessing GPUs
Eighteen research teams from a wide range of disciplines have been awarded computational and data resources on the sustained-petascale Blue Waters supercomputer.
Read moreU of I, Great Lakes Consortium award Blue Waters resources to 18 research teams
NCSA's Felipe Menanteau was part of the team that weighed the largest known galaxy cluster in the distant universe, nicknamed El Gordo, calculating its mass to be as much as 3 million billion times the mass of our sun.
Read moreHubble Team Finds Monster ‘El Gordo’ Galaxy Cluster Bigger Than Thought
On April 10, Edward Tufte will give his talk, "The Thinking Eye," on the University of Illinois campus.
Read moreTufte to talk on Illinois campus
During the week of March 17–21, ministers and high-level government officials from Latin American and Caribbean countries were immersed in the research activities of the University of Illinois, including visiting NCSA and taking a tour of the Blue Waters supercomputer.
Read moreLatin American and Caribbean leaders learn about NCSA, visit Blue Waters
The new University of Illinois CyberGIS Center aims to strengthen and expand the community of GIS users and connect them to cutting edge computing resources to answer big, interdisciplinary questions.
Read moreCyberGIS Center launches
A University of Utah research group is using the massive scale of Blue Waters to rapidly and rigorously evaluate the force fields used in molecular dynamics simulations.
Read moreFixing and flexing biomolecular force fields
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