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For NCSA, 2017 was so much more than just 365 days. We enabled new discoveries, drove economic impact, grew more diverse in people, projects, and funding, solved grand challenges, and we challenged ourselves (and the community) to change the world again. In case you were busy changing the world too, here’s a look at some … Continued

Jian Peng, NCSA Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Illinois and graduate student, Yang Liu, Department of Computer Science, have discovered a major breakthrough in protein structure predictions using deep learning data processed by NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer published in Cell Systems journal. Peng’s research proposes to largely explore … Continued

Over the course of nearly two decades, NASA’s Terra satellite has exceeded many of its expectations from the time of its launch. Blue Waters professor at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Larry Di Girolamo, who was in his first year of graduate school studying atmospheric sciences when Terra … Continued

You may not be familiar with one of NCSA’s most recent hires in the Blue Waters Project Office, Senior Research Programmer Jim Phillips, but you should. A long time NCSA collaborator coming to us from the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Phillips is anything but new … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois offers a number of undergraduate and graduate internship and HPC workforce-readiness programs. Undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty from institutions around the U.S. are invited to apply for these opportunities. Deadlines to apply for the opportunities highlighted below are quickly approaching. Apply today … Continued

by Katherine Kendig There’s a large bag of candy on the table in Michel Regenwetter’s lab, but Regenwetter—a professor of psychology and political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—insists he’s not secretly studying the number of fun-size Snickers bars visitors consume. Instead, he’s taken a step back from human behavior to look at … Continued

At the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), undergraduate SPIN (Students Pushing INnovation) intern Daniel Johnson joined NCSA’s Gravity Group to study Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, specifically numerical relativity. Daniel has used the open source, numerical relativity software, the Einstein Toolkit on the Blue Waters supercomputer to numerically solve Einstein’s general relativity equations … Continued

“It was a perfect recipe,” said Dr. Seid Koric, Technical Director for Economic and Societal Impact at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Research Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois. Koric, this year’s winner of the Top Supercomputing Achievement award in the annual HPCwire … Continued

The Global Initiative to Enhance @scale and Distributed Computing and Analysis Technologies (GECAT) project, led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)’s NSF-funded Blue Waters Project, which seeks to build connections across national borders as a way of improving a global cyberinfrastructure for scientific advancement, has announced the funding of two seed projects that … Continued

Out of the flurry of activity that encompassed the annual SC17 conference in Denver, Colorado on November 12-17, one of the most notable achievements from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) came from Daniel George, a research assistant at NCSA. George, whose research combines deep neural networks with the search for gravitational waves, took … Continued

Director, Donna Cox of the Advanced Visualization Lab at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois took home the Best Scientific Visualization and Data Analytics Showcase Award at SC 17 in Denver. The visualizations were created by Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart A. Levy, Jeffrey D. Carpenter, AJ Christensen and … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign won Top Supercomputing Achievement and Best Use of HPC in Physical Science in the annual HPCwire Editors’ Choice Awards, at the 2017 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC17), in Denver, Colorado. SC17 attendees are invited to … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign today released the 2017 Blue Waters Project Annual Report. For the project’s fourth annual report, research teams were invited to present highlights from their research that leveraged Blue Waters, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) most powerful system for sustained computation and … Continued

It’s time to change the world again. That is the bold call-to-action that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will share at SC17, the industry’s largest annual supercomputing conference November 12-17 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO. “There’s been an explosion in the types of … Continued

The Extreme Science and Engineering Development Environment (XSEDE) will be hosting a collaboration booth at Supercomputing Conference (SC) in Denver, Colorado November 13–16. XSEDE, which is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is the most advanced, powerful and robust collection of integrated digital resources and services in the world. XSEDE is inviting SC17 attendees … Continued