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Illinois faculty invited to apply for NCSA fellowships

U of I faculty are invited to apply by April 15 for the Faculty Fellowship program. Read more 

released on 03.11.14 

Digital Lab for Manufacturing

NCSA plays a key role in a new DoD-funded, Chicago-based effort to develop digital manufacturing technologies. Read more 

released on 02.25.14 

Stellar explosions

Blue Waters enables UC Santa Cruz astrophysics team to simulate key supernova phase at unprecedented resolution. Read more 

released on 02.24.14 

Gropp Receives SIAG/SC Career Prize

Frequent NCSA collaborator and Blue Waters Professor Bill Gropp was recognized for his distinguished contributions to algorithms research and development for parallel scientific and engineering computing. Read more 

released on 02.21.14 

NCSA’s Private Sector Program pushes LS-DYNA code to extreme scale on Blue Waters supercomputer

LS-DYNA, an explicit finite element code used for simulations in the auto, aerospace, manufacturing, and bioengineering industries, was recently scaled to 15,000 cores on NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer—a world record for scaling of any commercial engineering code. Read more 

released on 02.19.14 

Really big problems

University of Chicago researchers use a new coarse-grained molecular dynamics code on the massive Blue Waters system. Read more 

released on 02.17.14 

Smarr wins Golden Goose

Former NCSA director Larry Smarr is honored for the far-reaching impact of his research leadership, from the creation of the NSF HPC centers to the development of the Mosaic web browser. Read more 

released on 02.15.14 

Researchers selected for Blue Waters advisory committee

The committee brings together a diverse group of Blue Waters users to provide guidance on the project’s growth and development through an end-user perspective. Read more 

released on 02.12.14 

12 Illinois faculty awarded prestigious Blue Waters Professorships

Twelve University of Illinois faculty members from a range of fields have been selected as Blue Waters Professors, an honor that comes with substantial computing and data resources on the Blue Waters supercomputer at NCSA Read more 

released on 02.04.14 

Submissions due May 1 for Extreme Scaling Workshop

The conference committee seeks submissions of excellent quality addressing the challenges of using, designing, deploying, or integrating infrastructure for both big data analysis and large-scale computation to facilitate scientific discovery. Read more 

released on 02.04.14 