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2013

Project aims to improve security of industrial control systems

The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of almost $1.6 million to a team of cybersecurity experts from the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIPG) project. The three-year effort will focus on improving the security … Continued


Illinois allocations on Blue Waters

Blue Waters is one of the world’s fastest computing systems. Each year that Blue Waters is in operation, up to 13 million node-hours will be allocated to projects from the University of Illinois. This resource provides Illinois faculty and staff with a unique opportunity to perform groundbreaking work in computational science and engineering. Proposals from … Continued


Q&A: Illinois allocations on Blue Waters

Blue Waters is one of the world’s fastest computing systems. Each year that Blue Waters is in operation, up to 13 million node-hours will be allocated to projects from the University of Illinois. This resource provides Illinois faculty and staff with a unique opportunity to perform groundbreaking work in computational science and engineering. Proposals from … Continued


Intel’s Curley and NVIDIA’s Parker to speak at Extreme Scaling Workshop

Joe Curley from Intel and Steven Parker from NVIDIA will be the invited speakers at this year’s Extreme Scaling Workshop, Aug. 15-16 in Boulder, Colorado. They will provide perspectives as industry leaders in heterogeneous computing. The annual workshop, hosted by the National Science Foundation’s Blue Waters and eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) projects, … Continued


Illinois students invited to open house

The University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing (NCSA) has a history of encouraging and nurturing innovative concepts. NCSA is looking for highly motivated, creative Illinois undergraduate students to continue this tradition by participating in hands-on research fellowships during the 2013-2014 academic year. The NCSA SPIN (Students Pushing Innovation) program offers paid internships to Illinois … Continued


Blue Waters supercomputer upgraded to 13 petaflops

NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer is being upgraded with 12 additional Cray XK racks, each with 96 nodes. This boosts the system’s peak performance to over 13 petaflops. During the past six months, NCSA has seen more and more science and engineering teams modifying their codes to take advantage of the considerable computational power of the … Continued


NCSA names new director

H. Edward Seidel, the senior vice president of research and innovation at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Moscow, has been named the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, pending approval of the U. of I. Board of Trustees. Seidel led NCSA’s numerical relativity … Continued


Modeling Mother Nature

What occurs within a thunderstorm that leads to the formation of destructive weather events such as tornadoes and downbursts? Leigh Orf of Central Michigan University, NCSA’s Robert Wilhelmson, and Eric Savory of the University of Western Ontario are utilizing an idealized cloud model designed specifically for massively parallel architectures (CM1) to model storms and hoping … Continued


Drawing numbers

Access’ Barbara Jewett visits with Dave Semeraro, leader of NCSA’s Advanced Digital Services visualization team, to learn how his team enables research. How would you describe visualization to someone who is not familiar with it? You need to understand that a computer just generates numbers. That’s all the computer knows how to do. Visualization turns … Continued


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