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The high-resolution topographic maps of Alaska released today—part of a White House Arctic initiative to inform better decision-making in the Arctic—were made possible by the Blue Waters supercomputer at the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Blue Waters is the world’s largest computing and data analysis resource on an academic campus. Paul … Continued

by Barbara Jewett Where Fido does the business is probably not your most pressing thought right now. Yet innocuous actions take on epic importance when your life relies on clean surface water from a Greenlandic lake sitting on permafrost. Such is life in the Arctic. In Greenland, where the bulk of the country a sheet … Continued

Blue Waters is a national resource for all types of research, but also allows scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to take the spotlight. NCSA will host a question-and-answer session on September 8, 1-2 p.m. to allow Illinois researchers and scientists to ask Blue Waters experts about allocation proposals, which are due by … Continued

Five years ago, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign partnered with two other universities to lead a National Science Foundation-funded DataNet partnership called Sustainable Environment through Actionable Data (SEAD). Now, SEAD 2.0 is available for researchers to manage, share, and collaborate around scientific data, and, when they’re … Continued

Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $110 million, five-year award to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and 18 partner institutions to continue, and expand, the activities undertaken through the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), a cornerstone of the nation’s cyberinfrastructure ecosystem. XSEDE … Continued

Now in its 12th year, the Pygmalion Festival is an independently produced, multi-faceted, week-long celebration of culture. Originally a music festival, the Pygmalion Festival now includes a growing Tech component—featuring speakers and panels in all subjects—Food, Literature, and Made Festivals, as well. NCSA is proud to partner with one of the country’s up-and-coming festivals hosted … Continued

Dr. William “Bill” Gropp, has been named acting director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. NCSA Director Ed Seidel will step up to serve as interim vice president for research (VPR) for the University of Illinois System, President Tim Killeen announced Monday. Seidel will retain the … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites community members and alumni to join them for a 30th Anniversary celebration on September 16, 2016 at the NCSA Building (1205 W. Clark, U.), 4:30-6 p.m. The event will include a special presentation featuring NCSA Founding Director Larry Smarr, current … Continued

Climate change research is about to become more creative thanks to a new NSF-funded project aimed at bringing together individuals from widely disparate cultural, educational, and disciplinary backgrounds to collaborate in developing potentially transformative research proposals for submission next year. The National Science Foundation’s EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) award funds the program entitled … Continued

An alum from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications’ (NCSA) Students Pushing Innovation (SPIN) intern program is taking his work—making interactive models showing the history of a city in Cyprus—to the next level. And he says Pokémon GO is helping him get there. NCSA has a history of nurturing innovative concepts, and some of the … Continued

Staff from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications are in Miami this week for the fifth annual Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) conference. The conference’s theme is “Diversity, Big Data & Science at Scale: Enabling the Next Generation of Science and Technology.” Monday, July 18 1:00pm: Introduction to Brown Dog: An Elastic Data … Continued

Registration is now open for a free Workflows Workshop to be held August 9-10 at multiple institutions across the country. Sponsored by the Blue Waters sustained-petascale computing project, this workshop will provide an overview of workflows and how they can enhance research productivity. A general session on the value of workflows will be followed by … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is excited to welcome a new cohort of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign undergraduate summer interns. These undergraduates are part of the Students Pushing Innovation (SPIN) program. They will be working at NCSA this summer participating in hands-on research and development projects in areas including supercomputing, data analytics, … Continued

The Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) was recently invited to present their recent film Solar Superstorms at the 2016 SIGGRAPH Conference. This conference will be the 43rd annual international conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques, and will take place from July 24-28 in Anaheim, California. … Continued

U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (IL-13) voted this week in favor of important legislation to improve federal coordination with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The bill, H.R. 5312, Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Modernization Act was introduced by Rep. Darin LaHood (IL-18) and … Continued