News | National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois
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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
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NCSA is part of Illinois team developing data infrastructure
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are seeking to accelerate the technology transfer process through a new $1.5 million National Science Foundation Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs) project. Read more
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NSF spotlights NCSA Brown Dog
Supported by a $10 million, five-year award from the National Science Foundation, an NCSA-led team is developing software that allows researchers to manage and make sense of vast amounts of digital scientific data that is currently trapped in outdated file formats. Read more
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NCSA celebrates big computing, big data with Petascale Day
On Oct. 15, NCSA invites everyone to participate in Petascale Day, a celebration of big computing and big data. Read more
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InfoWorld names Bro one of the year’s top open-source security tools
The network security monitor and network analysis framework, developed by NCSA and the International Computer Science Institute, is honored with a 2014 BOSSIE Award. Read more
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Foundation selects Matt Turk as Moore Investigator in Data-Driven Discovery
$1.5 million grant will support development of yt for "ingesting, indexing, and processing data." Read more
