National Center for
Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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 more
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 more
Six outstanding computational science PhD students from across the country have been selected to receive the first Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships. Read more
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 more
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 more
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 more
Eighteen research teams from a wide range of disciplines have been awarded computational and data resources on the sustained-petascale Blue Waters supercomputer. Read more
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 more
On April 10, Edward Tufte will give his talk, "The Thinking Eye," on the University of Illinois campus. Read more
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 more
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 more
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 more
Two speakers with ties to NCSA will be featured in the 34th Annual Tornado and Severe Weather Seminar, hosted by WGN-TV’s chief meteorologist Tom Skilling on April 5. Read more
The CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies will be hosting a kickoff event on March 19th, 2014 to celebrate its startup. Read more
Take a tour of Blue Waters, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world! In conjunction with Engineering Open House, you can visit the supercomputer any time between 9a and 3p on Saturday, March 15. Read more
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