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On Dec. 13, Gov. Pat Quinn and University of Illinois officials launched the Illinois Manufacturing Lab, an effort to bring research and technical resources to Illinois manufacturers. NCSA’s Private Sector Program will provide expertise and resources to help companies around the state improve their products and processes to increase competitiveness. The manufacturers involved in the … Continued

The Blue Waters supercomputer was the driving petaflop power behind “Enabling Highly-Scalable Remote Memory Access Programming with MPI-3 One Sided,” awarded best technical paper at SC13 on Nov. 21 in Denver, Co. This paper, written by Robert Gerstenberger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Torsten Hoefler (formerly of NCSA) and Maciej Besta, both of ETH … Continued

The Blue Waters project is launching a three-year effort to create a model for offering online credit-bearing courses to students across the country and is seeking faculty interested in offering courses to address high-end computation in all fields of study. Faculty are invited to help design and deliver web-based graduate courses that provide students with … Continued

After defeating Team Ohio in round one, the Coding Illini—a team composed of NCSA staff and University of Illinois computer science graduate students—defeated K2I18 (Rice University) in round two to advance into the finals of the first ever Intel Parallel Universe Computing Challenge at the SC13 conference in Denver, Nov. 18-21. The Coding Illini went … Continued

A team composed of NCSA staff and University of Illinois computer science graduate students defeated Team Ohio in round one of the first ever Intel Parallel Universe Computing Challenge at the SC13 conference in Denver, Nov. 18-21. The Challenge tests knowledge of parallel computing topics and coding skills, with a $25,000 grand prize to be … Continued

DENVER, CO. November 18, 2013 — NCSA announced today that it received the HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award for Best Use of HPC in Life Sciences for the use of the Blue Waters supercomputer to achieve a significant breakthrough in the understanding of HIV. The 2013 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards were announced at the … Continued

A team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has been awarded more than $10 million over the next five years from the National Science Foundation to develop software to manage and make sense of vast amounts of digital scientific data. “The information age has made it trivial for anyone to create and share … Continued

The Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship Program is a new and unique program funded by the National Science Foundation. This prestigious program will select graduate students from across the country to immerse themselves in a year of focused high-performance computing (HPC) research. The fellowships will empower these talented graduate students to advance their HPC knowledge while … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has relaunched its website using the latest responsive design techniques to ensure that the site’s content is optimized for every screen, from desktop to tablet to smartphone. Because of the rapid rise in the number of people using tablets and smartphones to browse the web, Mashable dubbed 2013 … Continued

Professionals involved in operating and supporting campus shared research computing infrastructure are invited to participate in a best practices workshop on Advancing Research Computing on Campuses, Jan. 16-17, 2014, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The workshop is sponsored by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Condo of Condos. The evolving … Continued