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2015

Expanded knowledge

To learn more about the future of open research computing, Access’ Barbara Jewett spoke with Blue Waters project leaders Bill Kramer and Cristina Beldica. What is happening in scientific computing? Bill Kramer: You cannot do any type of science and engineering without computing and data analysis these days. Even straight theory is no longer being … Continued


XSEDE15: Viz Showcase deadline is May 31

The deadline to submit visualizations for the day-long Visualization Showcase at XSEDE15 is May 31. Submissions must include a video (up to 5 minutes) and a document (up to two pages) describing the research, visualization techniques, role of visualization in supporting or advancing scientific inquiry, and brief information about the underlying data and hardware resources. … Continued


NCSA releases PEcAn 1.4.2

The Predictive Ecosystem Analyzer (PEcAn) is an integrated ecological bioinformatics toolbox (LeBauer et al, 2013) which consists of: 1) a scientific workflow system to manage the immense amounts of publicly-available environmental data and 2) a Bayesian data assimilation system to synthesize this information within state-of-the-art ecosystems models. This project is motivated by the fact that … Continued


CUG2015 highlights trends in HPC

The 2015 Cray User Group meeting was held in downtown Chicago April 26-30. Around 200 attendees, both Cray customers and users, enjoyed a range of presentations and discussion sessions from tutorials to discussions. NCSA and the Blue Waters project were the local hosts for this year’s event. NCSA Director Ed Seidel gave the keynote talk … Continued


14 Illinois researchers selected for NCSA Fellowships

Fourteen faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been selected to receive one-year fellowships that will enable their research teams to pursue collaborative projects with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. NCSA’s fellowship program aims to catalyze and develop long-term collaborations between the center and campus researchers, particularly in the center’s six … Continued


Jim Kurose, Valerio Pascucci to speak at XSEDE15

XSEDE15 will feature plenary talks from Jim Kurose, the leader of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate at the National Science Foundation, and Valerio Pascucci, the founding director of the Center for Extreme Data Management Analysis and Visualization (CEDMAV) of the University of Utah. Kurose is on leave from the University of … Continued


Version 2.1 of NCSA Polyglot released

The Innovative Software and Data Analysis Division at NCSA has released version 2.1 of NCSA Polyglot, a distributed and highly extensible framework for file format conversions. New features include: emphasis on REST interface re-architecture based on RabbitMQ for Software Server discovery and distribution of jobs stateless head node for robustness and better scalability all files … Continued


Six PhD students from across the country selected as Blue Waters Graduate Fellows

Six outstanding computational science PhD students from across the country have been selected to receive Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships for 2015-2016. The fellowship program, now in its second year, provides graduate students in diverse fields with substantial support and the opportunity to leverage the petascale power of NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer to advance their research. … Continued


22 students selected for Blue Waters Student Internship Program

Shodor and the Blue Waters project have selected 19 undergraduate students and three graduate students from across the country to participate in the Blue Waters Student Internship Program for 2015-2016. Interns will learn to apply high-performance computing to problems in science, mathematics, and engineering through the year-long program. Their experience will begin later this month … Continued


Blue Waters supercomputer is available for educational projects

A portion of the immense capacity of the Blue Water supercomputer is available for educational projects, including semester-long courses, workshops, and institutes. Up to 1 percent (or 1.8 million node-hours) per year is reserved for educational allocations, and applications are accepted throughout the year. These allocations are intended to broaden the impact of Blue Waters … Continued


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