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by Susan Szuch Mariet Allen is an assistant professor of neuroscience at Mayo Clinic in Florida, and is conducting ongoing research using the Blue Waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois to understand the role that genetics plays in Alzheimer’s disease. Here are five fast facts about … Continued

Nine 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). Fellows work in one of the center’s six thematic areas of research: Bioinformatics and Health Sciences, Computing and Data Sciences, … Continued

Ten outstanding computational science PhD students from across the country have been selected to receive Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships for 2016-2017. The fellowship program, now in its third year, provides substantial support and the opportunity to leverage the petascale power of National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois’s Blue Waters supercomputer … Continued

by Susan Szuch Professor Iwona Jasiuk has spent the past 10 years studying bones to understand why bones break and to assess bone quality. While her research has been looking at the problem both experimentally and computationally, she is currently focusing on the use of high scale computations to model bone by using patient specific … Continued

NCSA is helping produce movie magic with cinematic scientific visualization. The Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently worked on A Beautiful Planet, the latest 3D space documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Toni Myers and IMAX Entertainment, made in cooperation with NASA, which … Continued

Contact:Kristin WilliamsonNCSAAssistant Director, Public Affairspublicaffairs@ncsa.illinois.edu217-300-2933 Researchers have uncovered the existence of a dwarf “dark galaxy” lurking nearly 4 billion light-years away from Earth. The discovery was made when a team of researchers, including astronomers at the University of Illinois, using the Blue Waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), noticed subtle distortions … Continued

Influenza is more than a seasonal nuisance leading to a few days of discomfort and a brief absence from school or work. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the disease is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year and has the potential to mutate into a more virulent, contagious form that claims … Continued

NCSA and the University of Illinois’ Spurlock Museum have opened an exhibit in the museum’s Central Core that spotlights our 30 years of science, research and education. The Spurlock Musuem “NCSA 30th Anniversary” exhibit opened on March 1 and will close at the end of July. The Spurlock Museum is open 12 pm-5 pm, Tuesday; … Continued

by Susan Szuch Do you still remember linear algebra? Better question—can you still solve a linear algebra system of equations? Here, try one out. We’ll wait. 2x + 3y = 66y + 3x = -3 These are the kind of problems supercomputers use sparse matrices—which means with many zeros—to solve, says Seid Koric, adjunct professor … Continued

by Susan Szuch Up until recently, there has been very little understanding on how exactly general anesthesia worked. Vincenzo Carnevale, Research Associate Professor at Temple University in Pennsylvania, is part of a team of researchers who is trying to do just that by understanding the functional mechanisms of voltage-gated-like ion channels. “We do know that … Continued