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NCSA’s PSP has worked with more than one-third of the Fortune50 and nearly 60 percent of the nation’s leading manufacturers. Access’ Liz Murray chatted with PSP leaders Merle Giles and Evan Burness about the program’s history of success. What makes the nation’s top companies want to partner with PSP? Merle Giles: When NCSA was founded … Continued

by Elizabeth Murray Researchers at the University of Illinois take on a challenging fluid mechanics problem to model blood flow in the cardiovascular system to improve clinical diagnostic tools. It may be hard to imagine, but you can live without a heartbeat. Though as you may have guessed, medically speaking, it is not ideal. Patients … Continued

The Blue Waters project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will offer an online graduate-level course on Algorithmic Techniques for Scalable Many-core Computing in fall 2014 and is seeking university partners who are interested in offering the course for credit to their students. The course includes online video lectures, quizzes, and homework assignments with … Continued

This summer the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host two summer workshops offered by the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering. Harness the Power of GPUs: Introduction to General Purpose GPU Programming, June 16-20Harness the Power of GPUs is a mixture of lectures and labs and … Continued

Eighteen research teams from a wide range of disciplines have been awarded computational and data resources on the sustained-petascale Blue Waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Blue Waters is one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, capable of performing quadrillions of calculations every second … Continued

Edward Tufte, data theorist and visualization pioneer, will discuss seeing, reasoning, producing in science and art. Topics include evidence and inference, strategies for identifying excellence, and practical advice for seeing better in the real world and on the glowing flat rectangle of the computer screen. Tufte will present “The Thinking Eye” at the University of … Continued

by Trish Barker A University of Utah research group is using the massive scale of Blue Waters to rapidly and rigorously evaluate the force fields used in molecular dynamics simulations. Thomas Cheatham’s University of Utah research team uses molecular dynamics simulations to better understand biomolecules, like nucleic acids and proteins. Improving and validating their methods, … Continued

Two speakers from the University of Illinois will be featured in the 34th Annual Tornado and Severe Weather Seminar, hosted by WGN-TV’s chief meteorologist Tom Skilling on April 5 at the Ramsey Auditorium on the grounds of the Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia. Donna Cox, leader of NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Laboratory, will speak on … Continued

NCSA and the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project that it leads, along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, will present an OpenACC GPU programming workshop on April 1. OpenACC is the accepted standard using compiler directives to allow quick development of GPU capable codes using standard languages and compilers. It has been used … Continued

Faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are invited to apply for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Faculty Fellowship program, which provides seed funding to support demonstration or start-up projects, workshops and other activities. The fellowship program is intended to catalyze long-term research collaborations between campus academic/research units and NCSA that will … Continued

by Trish Barker Blue Waters enables UC Santa Cruz astrophysics team to simulate key supernova phase at unprecedented resolution. The supernovae that Chris Malone studies, Type Ia, are “basically thermonuclear explosions of really compact stars,” the UC Santa Cruz postdoctoral researcher explains. Malone and the other members of the astrophysics research team led by UC … Continued