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2017

Great Lakes Consortium awards time on Blue Waters supercomputer

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


NSF grants 14 researchers time on Blue Waters supercomputer

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


NCSA grants $2.6m in new Blue Waters supercomputer awards to Illinois researchers

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


4CeeD framework wins Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and

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


NCSA scientist using Big Data to aid emergency responders

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


Bill Gropp named NCSA Director

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


Watch the 2017 NCSA Blue Waters Symposium presentations

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


Dark Energy Survey Data Management group lays groundwork for next survey at NCSA

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


XSEDE visualization expert helps researchers show colliding white dwarfs

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


Seeing the Beginning of Time

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


Foundation supports Crops in silico Project

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


Orchestrated move of scientific data minimizes user impact of Blue Waters upgrade

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


LIGO detects gravitational waves for third time

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


‘Einstein was right’

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


NCSA awards eight Illinois professors with Faculty Fellowships

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


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