UI researchers use supercomputer to develop techniques for more accurate evolutionary trees Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email by Susan Szuch The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a bit of a history with genomics, to put it mildly. In 1977, microbiologist Carl Woese uprooted the tree of life, a concept dating back to the early 19th century that explored how organisms were related and evolved. Woese is credited with discovering the third … Continued July 12, 2017
Great Lakes Consortium awards time on Blue Waters supercomputer Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email The Blue Waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign benefits the scientific community in innumerable ways. Researchers can use the most powerful high performance computing system for fully open research through a few doorways, including the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC) allocations. Member … Continued July 6, 2017
NSF grants 14 researchers time on Blue Waters supercomputer Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email The Blue Waters Petascale Computing Resource Allocations (PRAC) have been awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fourteen teams of researchers from across the U.S. The awarded allocations reached a combined total of 84.5 million node hours (2.7 billion core hour equivalents), valued at $52.4 million. The NSF granted three PRAC awards to Caroline … Continued July 6, 2017
NCSA grants $2.6m in new Blue Waters supercomputer awards to Illinois researchers Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has awarded 3,697,000 node hours (NH) of time on the Blue Waters supercomputer to Illinois researchers from Spring 2017 proposal submissions. The combined value of these awards is over $2.6 million dollars, and through the life of the Blue Waters program, … Continued July 5, 2017
4CeeD framework wins Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Researchers from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), partnering with the University of Illinois Coordinated Science Lab (CSL), the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory (MRL), and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MNTL) win Best Paper for their work on “Real-Time Data Acquisition and Analysis Framework for Material-related Cyber-Physical Environments” at the 17th IEEE/ACM International … Continued June 28, 2017
NCSA scientist using Big Data to aid emergency responders Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email We regularly hear the importance in packing water, blankets, and an FM/AM radio in response to a weather- or human-created disaster. Now researchers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign want to make sure that leaders at the state, county and city levels leverage Big Data to … Continued June 28, 2017
Bill Gropp named NCSA Director Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Dr. William “Bill” Gropp, Interim Director and Chief Scientist of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will become the center’s fifth Director on July 16, 2017, pending Board of Trustees approval. Gropp was appointed to the roles of acting and then interim director of NCSA by Vice … Continued June 26, 2017
Watch the 2017 NCSA Blue Waters Symposium presentations Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Researchers from around the nation came together in Sunriver, Oregon, for the 2017 NCSA Blue Waters Symposium to share their research and scientific discoveries from the past year. Videos from the more than 70 presentations about the research being done using the Blue Waters supercomputer including investigating how galaxies like the Milky Way are formed … Continued June 23, 2017
Dark Energy Survey Data Management group lays groundwork for next survey at NCSA Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Understanding the 14-billion-year history of cosmic expansion requires a deep and wide map of the universe. The fainter and more distant the source of light is, the farther back in time astronomers can look to interrogate their theories on how the universe came to be. Using larger telescopes and more sensitive cameras, astronomers have begun … Continued June 22, 2017
XSEDE visualization expert helps researchers show colliding white dwarfs Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email The Universe is full of explosions. These explosions, called supernovae, come about for many reasons but they’re foundational to the beginning of man including the prevalence of iron and calcium in our bodies. One specific type of supernovae, type Ia (pronounced “type one-a”), is also useful in another way: measuring distances in the Universe. … Continued June 15, 2017
Seeing the Beginning of Time Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Seeing the Beginning of Time, takes viewers on a visually-compelling journey through deep space and time. The 50-minute, 4K science documentary was co-produced by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Thomas Lucas Productions as part of a National Science Foundation-supported project called CADENS (Centrality of Advanced … Continued June 14, 2017
Foundation supports Crops in silico Project Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) has awarded Principal Investigator Amy Marshall-Colón, Assistant Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, $274,000 to continue her research in support of Crops in silico (Cis), a project to develop a suite of virtual plant models that may help resolve a growing gap … Continued June 13, 2017
Orchestrated move of scientific data minimizes user impact of Blue Waters upgrade Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign recently finished an upgrade to the parallel disk storage subsystem for the Blue Waters supercomputer—which stores data from ongoing science applications. The Lustre open-source file system is responsible for writing the data into blocks on the disks, and its latest release changes … Continued June 13, 2017
LIGO detects gravitational waves for third time Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email A new window in astronomy has been firmly opened with a third detection of gravitational waves. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has made yet another detection of ripples in space and time, demonstrating that the detection of gravitational waves may soon become commonplace. As was the case with the first two detections, the waves … Continued June 1, 2017
‘Einstein was right’ Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) made the first-ever direct observation of gravitational waves in September 2015 during its first observing run since undergoing major upgrades in a program called Advanced LIGO. The second detection was made in December 2015. The third detection called GW170104 was made on January 4, 2017, and is described in … Continued June 1, 2017
NCSA awards eight Illinois professors with Faculty Fellowships Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has named Faculty Fellowship awardees for 2017-18. These eight Illinois faculty members will work with NCSA to help solve some of the grand challenges facing all people, including deep learning, the internet of things, data analysis, volcano activity and more. Each … Continued May 25, 2017