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If you say “Klaus,” almost everyone at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) knew you were referring to long-time NCSA collaborator Klaus Schulten. Dr. Schulten passed away on October 31 after an illness. As the leader of the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at the University of Illinois’ Beckman Institute, Dr. Schulten pioneered the … 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 Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) has another award to its credit. The AVL team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign worked on “A Beautiful Planet,” the latest 3D space documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Toni Myers and IMAX Entertainment. Myers recently accepted the “Best Film for Lifelong … Continued

While cataloguing dark energy in space, scientists made a startling discovery with help from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) supercomputer Blue Waters. The discovery: A new dwarf planet, temporarily named DeeDee. The Chilean telescope at the center of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) discovered the icy planet over the summer. Previous telescopes didn’t … Continued

by: Hannah Remmert Every year, many people perform research on Blue Waters, the massive supercomputer hosted by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. However, very few can say that they’ve published research on Blue Waters an impressive 22 times, as NCSA’s own Seid Koric has done. In … Continued

NCSA staff and faculty affiliates are invited to submit research projects to the Summer 2017 Students Pushing Innovation (SPIN) internship program. If you would like to hire a SPIN intern for next summer, please provide a short description of your project, including a list of specific skills students need to have, and indicate if you … 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

Solving the impending global food crisis will require diverse efforts. One of these efforts is Crops in silico, which aims to join together disparate crop models at different spatial and temporal scales with climate and agriculture data from around the world. The success of this effort will depend in large part on the open access … 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

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Acting Director Dr. William “Bill” Gropp has been named as the recipient of the 2016 ACM/IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award for highly influential contributions to the programmability of high performance parallel and distributed computers. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society will present Gropp … Continued

XSEDE has awarded more than $16M worth of compute resources to 155 research projects. This is the first cohort of allocations awardees after the announcement of a 5-year renewal of XSEDE by the National Science Foundation to expand access to the nation’s cyberinfrastructure ecosystem. Through these allocations, research teams gain access to digital scholarship resources … 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

Experts to build virtual educational environment to aid graduate students Researchers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been awarded a 4-year, $1M grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address grand challenges at the nexus of food, energy, and water (FEW). The project, titled … Continued

by Austin Keating The physics of the world around us are often too complex to fully model in a virtual environment. The complexity can bottleneck improvements in manufacturing, scientific research and development, and high-power lasers used for defeating ballistic missiles. A relatively new software package called BLAZE Multiphysics from CU Aerospace is making what used … Continued