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Merle E. Giles, director of Private Sector Programs and Economic Impact at NCSA, and Anwar Osseyran, director of the Dutch HPC and e-cience center SURFsara, are co-editors of a new book on the impact high-performance computing in industry. The book, Industrial Applications of High-Performance Computing: Best Global Practices, provides a global overview of high-performance computing … Continued

NCSA is a member of a team awarded a $20 million award from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop computer tools to help local governments decide how each can best invest resources intended to lessen the impact of extreme weather and other hazards on buildings, infrastructure, and … Continued

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are invited to apply by March 16 to use the powerful Blue Waters supercomputer. There will be a Q&A sessions from 3 to 5 pm March 5 in room 1040 of the NCSA Building for faculty and staff who are considering submitting proposals. Blue Waters is one … Continued

Undergraduate students from across the country are invited to apply for year-long Blue Waters internships. Interns will gain experiences in applying high-performance computing to problems in science, mathematics, and engineering. NCSA’s Blue Waters is one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. It is used by people across the United States to address the most challenging … Continued

The Milwaukee Institute announced on Feb. 5, 2015 its partnership with the Private Sector Program of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). This strategic partnership offers a variety of computational resources to the Milwaukee Institute to better serve scientific and engineering projects for clients performing large-scale modeling, simulation, visualization and analytics projects. Jay Bayne, … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the CompGen Initiative have selected University of Illinois graduate students Arjun Athreya and Marcelo Cardoso dos Reis Melo as the spring 2015 NCSA-CompGen Fellows. The two graduate fellows receive research assistantships, access to NCSA resources, and space in the NCSA Building and will pursue projects that use … Continued

Professionals involved in operating and supporting campus shared research computing infrastructure are invited to participate in this sharing of experience and expertise at the Advancing Research Computing on Campuses: Best Practices Workshop, to be held March 17-19 at Clemson University in partnership with Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research and Education Facilitators (ACI-REF), the National Center for Supercomputing … Continued

Applications are due Feb. 4 for the Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship program, which provides graduate students from across the country the opportunity to immerse themselves in a year of focused high-performance computing (HPC) research. Fellows will receive a stipend of $38,000, up to a $12,000 tuition allowance, and up to 50,000 node-hours on the petascale … Continued