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The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) joins the National Science Foundation (NSF) in their social media celebration of the beauty of computing. The #BeautyofComputing campaign will run though the remainder of the summer and showcase the beautiful simulation and visualization work funded through NSF. NCSA is excited to have an opportunity to show the … Continued

By Claudia Lutz, Institute for Genomic Biology Historically, successful trait selection in plant breeding has involved manual measurement of individual plants. This requirement limits the number of plants that can be evaluated, and the scope of properties that can be measured. A new grant from the Department of Energy to researchers at the Donald Danforth … Continued

By Jan Zverina, SDSC Communications There may be far fewer galaxies further out in the Universe than might be expected, suggests a new study based on simulations conducted using the Blue Waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, with resulting data transferred to SDSC Cloud at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the … Continued

NCSA has released Scheduler, software to help users submit a large number of independent jobs to the queue for Blue Waters and other high-performance computing systems, on GitHub at https://github.com/ncsa/Scheduler. Scheduler was developed by Victor Anisimov, a senior research programmer for the Blue Waters project. On HPC systems, job submission is typically managed by batch-queuing … Continued

A 24-minute, high-resolution science documentary about the dynamics of the Sun that features data-driven visualizations produced by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will debut June 30 at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum in Baton Rouge before rolling out to more than a dozen planetariums and … Continued