News | National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois
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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
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Many problems, many objectives
Patrick Reed's team at Cornell University created a new algorithm to solve problems that require optimization of many conflicting objectives. Read more
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NCSA Faculty Fellow studies Hurricane Sandy’s impact on NYC traffic
Civil and Environmental Engineering professor Dan Work will next work with NCSA to improve day-to-day taxi operations. Read more
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Blue Waters project to offer online course on Designing and Building Applications for Extreme-Scale
NCSA’s Blue Waters project will offer of an online graduate course on Designing and Building Applications for Extreme-Scale Systems in spring 2015 and is seeking university partners that are interested in offering the course for credit to their students. Read more
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Fostering geospatial discovery and innovation through a national CyberGIS facility
The CyberGIS Center receives a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant from the NSF to build a high-performance computing system optimized to deal with geospatial data. Read more
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NCSA @ SC14
Get the latest on the Blue Waters supercomputer, our collaborations with industry, the National Data Service, and more. Read more
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26 Illinois undergrads selected for internships with NCSA
These talented undergraduates were selected through NCSA's SPIN (Students Pushing Innovation) program to pursue research and development projects. Read more
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4 faculty selected for Blue Waters Professorships
Four newly hired University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty members have been selected as Blue Waters Professors, an honor that comes with substantial computing and data resources on the Blue Waters supercomputer. Read more
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NCSA, ICHASS to aid Text Mining the Novel project
What can computers and quantitative analysis do for the study of literature? Investigators have high hopes as a new multi-institutional partnership involving U of I turns to big data to better understand the history of novels and what they say about society. Read more
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Mapping atoms
"Blue Waters was essential" for Illinois researchers to simulate DNA moving through a graphene nanopore. Read more
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NCSA’s Jongeneel to play key role in NIH-funded Center of Excellence for Big Data Computing
The new center is a collaboration between the University and the Mayo Clinic and will be based at the Illinois Institute for Genomic Biology. Read more
