NCSA hosts 2017 Blue Waters Graduate Fellows Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email On September 19-20, 2017, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) will welcome the newest cadre of Blue Waters Graduate Fellows, from nine universities across the country, to the University of Illinois campus. The annual visit provides graduate researchers with the opportunity to meet with their Blue Waters mentors, participate in hands-on training led by … Continued September 18, 2017
INCLUSION REU seeks to foster diversity while exposing undergrads to coding via open source software Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email September 14, 2017
LCI seeks hosts Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email The Linux Clusters Institute (LCI) is currently seeking applications from institutions interested in hosting the 2018 LCI Introductory Workshop. This workshop provides education and technical training for the deployment and use of computing clusters to the high-performance computing community worldwide. The deadline to submit your host site letter of interest form is October 1, 2017. … Continued September 13, 2017
Blue Waters processes final installment of ArcticDEM mapping initiative Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email The Arctic has historically been one of the most remote and under mapped regions on Earth. Two years ago, the Obama Administration issued an executive order to create better digital elevation models for an area that spans almost twice the size of the continental United States. The data would be used to provide greater context … Continued September 13, 2017
Illinois launches first U.S. nanomanufacturing node Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers, in conjunction with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), have been awarded a 5-year, $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch the country’s first computational node aimed at developing nanomanufacturing simulation tools to improve efficiencies and strengthen the economic viability of nanomanufacturing. The nanoMFG … Continued September 12, 2017
Getty Foundation grant for collaborative research on Mediterranean cities Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email The Getty Foundation, as part of its “Connecting Art Histories” initiative, has awarded a major grant to The Cyprus Institute (CyI), in support of a new research project: “Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval and Early Modern Cities.” Directed by Nikolas Bakirtzis (The Cyprus Institute) and D. Fairchild Ruggles (University of … Continued September 11, 2017
A new cosmic ‘lab’ Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email If you have ever had to wait those agonizing minutes in front of a computer for a movie or large file to load, you’ll likely sympathize with the plight of cosmologists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). But instead of watching TV dramas, they are trying to transfer, as fast … Continued August 28, 2017
NCSA industry conference to highlight business and government breakthroughs Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Registration is now open! The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is excited to announce the 2017 NCSA Industry Conference which will take place October 11–12 on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. This year’s conference provides attendees with the opportunity to experience the transformative power of high performance computing and big data as … Continued August 23, 2017
New study uncovers best practices for effective partnerships between public HPC centers and industri Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email A new global study aimed at identifying and understanding best practices in partnerships between public high performance computing (HPC) centers and private industry use of HPC system and expertise has just been released. The study, which hopes to promote the vital transfer of scientific knowledge to industry and the important transfer of industrial experience to … Continued August 22, 2017
Illinois faculty and staff can request time on Blue Waters supercomputer Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Blue Waters is one of the world’s most powerful computing systems and is located here at Illinois. Each year more than 3 million node-hours are allocated to projects from our campus. Each node has many powerful cores, providing University faculty and staff significant computing power. Proposals are accepted twice per year, the next deadline September … Continued August 17, 2017
NCSA researcher awarded SIGHPC/Intel Computational Data and Science Fellowship Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Santiago Nuñez-Corrales, a graduate researcher at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Ph.D. student in Informatics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was one of twelve recipients to be awarded the SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowship for 2017. The fellowship, funded by Intel, was established to increase the diversity of graduate … Continued August 11, 2017
The yt Project awarded NSF grant to expand to multiple new science domains Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email The yt Project, an open science environment created to address astrophysical questions through analysis and visualization, has been awarded a $1.6 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue developing their software project. This grant will enable yt to expand and begin to support other domains beyond astrophysics, including weather, geophysics and … Continued August 10, 2017
NSF supports NCSA researchers’ “SciTokens” secure authorization project Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Have you ever forgotten the password for one of your dozens of online accounts? You likely wasted time trying different variations of what you were sure was the password, until eventually you just reset it. And when you reset it, did you choose a simple password that you would be able to remember more easily, … Continued August 10, 2017
NCSA processes data for the Dark Energy Survey in the most accurate measurement of dark matter struc Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email New measurements from data processed by the Dark Energy Survey Data Management (DESDM) project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign verify the theory that 26 percent of the universe is in the form of mysterious dark matter and that space is filled with an also-unseen dark … Continued August 3, 2017
NCSA seeking applicants for cyberinfrastructure professional internships Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email NCSA is announcing a new internship program aimed to help develop the nation’s cyberinfrastructure workforce. The NCSA Internship Program for Cyberinfrastructure Professionals, sponsored by the National Science Foundation will be offered in the fall and spring semesters. The first session will be full-time over the course of 15 weeks from early September through mid-December and … Continued August 1, 2017
Blue Waters intern visualizes a career in app development Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email As a high school student, and even as an early undergraduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Max Collins was not sure what he wanted to do after graduation from college. This all changed as a result of his time spent as an NCSA Blue Waters intern and the time he spent working … Continued July 12, 2017