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by Nicole Gaynor The Great Lakes contain about 21 percent of the Earth’s and 84 percent of North America’s supply of fresh water, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Is the water safe to drink? Is it safe to swim? Can we eat the fish? “These are three fundamental questions the public wants to … Continued

Simulations carried out using the Blue Waters petascale supercomputer have determined the structure of the rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV), which causes a highly infectious and often fatal illness in domestic and wild rabbits. This research, carried out collaboratively by researchers at the University of Illinois, the University of California-San Diego and several Chinese research … Continued

Four large-scale science applications (VPIC, PPM, QMCPACK and SPECFEM3DGLOBE) have sustained performance of 1 petaflop or more on the Blue Waters supercomputer, and the Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF) run on Blue Waters is the largest WRF simulation ever documented. These applications are part of the NCSA Blue Waters Sustained Petascale Performance (SPP) suite and … Continued

Bill Kramer, deputy project director for Blue Waters, and Bill Gropp, Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science and chief applications architect for Blue Waters, have been named two of the top 12 people to watch in 2013 by HPCwire. The list pays tribute to individuals whose exceptional achievements and contributions to high performance … Continued

Ten University of Illinois students have been selected for spring semester research fellowships at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). These talented undergraduates were selected through NCSA’s SPIN (Students Pushing Innovation) program. After an October open house at NCSA, interested students submitted proposals describing projects they would like to pursue with support from mentors … Continued

Ten University of Illinois students have been selected for spring semester research fellowships at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). These talented undergraduates were selected through NCSA’s SPIN (Students Pushing Innovation) program. After an October open house at NCSA, interested students submitted proposals describing projects they would like to pursue with support from mentors … Continued