| National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois

NCSA/XSEDE simulate tornado

Using XSEDE resources and the power of NCSA's Data Analysis and Visualization group, a pair of Illinois researchers were able to accurately simulate an EF-5 tornado in Joplin, MO. from 2011.

The National Science Foundation has announced a $1.8 million grant to fund an Open Storage Network for researchers across the country, allowing the movement of large datasets to be more seamless than ever before.

Blue Waters tackles staph

Combining experimental and computational approaches, Rafael Bernardi and the late Klaus Schulten from the Beckman Institute teamed up with Lukas Milles and Hermann Gaub from the LMU Physics Department to decipher the mechanism responsible for staph adhesion.