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A researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is reducing sound from jet engines for his NASA- and Navy-funded research. He’s using resources provided through an organization based partly at NCSA: Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). The National Science Foundation-funded project links supercomputers and code experts to academics who need them. Daniel Bodony, … Continued

The Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship was awarded to ten outstanding Ph.D. students in computational science. In this series we’re featuring brief introductions to who they are and what they’re trying to accomplish. This program serves to prepare the next generation of science researchers to solve the world’s problems. Follow along as we highlight these young … Continued

The Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship was awarded to ten outstanding Ph.D. students in computational science. In this series we’re featuring brief introductions to who they are and what they’re trying to accomplish. This program serves to prepare the next generation of science researchers to solve the world’s problems. Follow along as we highlight these young … Continued

The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI), funded by the National Science Foundation, is now benefitting from identity management capabilities provided by NCSA. Specifically, GENI is using NCSA’s federated identity provider to enable access for researchers whose home organization does not operate its own federated identity provider. GENI provides a virtual laboratory for networking and … Continued

The historic discovery of gravitational waves earlier this year has sent astronomers on the search for more. These scientists are turning to the Blue Waters supercomputer at NCSA in aid of their quest. So it was fitting that the NANOGrav annual fall meeting be held at NCSA, allowing researchers to see and work with Blue … Continued

by Travis Tate Opposites often attract, but that attraction can cause an explosion. Magnetizing forces in space are the same: but in space, reconnection is always possible. Magnetic reconnection is the scientific process in which oppositely aligned magnetic field lines in a plasma break and form new connections. The newly connected magnetic fields are bent … Continued

by Hannah Remmert Imagine a time when information was far less accessible than it is today. Without the power to pull out your smartphone and perform a fact check in a matter of seconds, you had to trust that the information presented to you was the accurate truth. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Roy Stryker … Continued

Matthew Turk of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), has recently joined the School of Information Sciences (iSchool) faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an assistant professor. Turk will retain the same NCSA projects and groups, including group leader of NCSA’s Data Exploration Lab, as a faculty affiliate. He also holds … Continued

The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation is soliciting research proposals, due December 2, 2016. The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC) has been allocated 3.5 million node hours (equivalent to approximately 50 million core hours) annually as part of the Blue Waters project. This allocation provides the GLCPC member institutions—nearly 30 universities and … Continued

Scientists may be a step closer to predicting volcanic activity and earthquakes thanks to research conducted using the Blue Waters supercomputer. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign geology professor Lijun Liu and his collaborator Derrick Hasterok at the University of Adelaide in Australia ran models of 100 cores each on Blue Waters to help them develop … Continued

The National Data Service (NDS)—a U.S. consortium focused on helping scientists and researchers find, reuse, and publish data—has named Christine Kirkpatrick as its first executive director. Kirkpatrick is the division director for IT Systems & Services at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego and deputy director and co-principal … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is exhibiting at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis—commonly called “Supercomputing” or “SC”—November 13-18 in Salt Lake City. NCSA, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, will host in-booth events (#2501) throughout the week. Events and demonstrations will highlight NCSA’s impact on science, education, … Continued

by Susan Szuch Before you savor the first bite of that delicious snack you have tucked in your bag to get you through the mid-afternoon slump, take a moment to thank Ilias Tagkopoulos—it’s researchers like him that help keep your food safe from nasty bacteria. A computer scientist by trade, Tagkopoulos runs an experimental microbiology … Continued

by Susan Szuch What do you get when you cross an art form with something found in all living organisms? It may sound unusual, but DNA origami is something that has been explored in the scientific community for the last 10 years. DNA is a string of four nucleotide bases (A, T, G and C), … Continued