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On April 4, 2017, the Research Organization for Information Science and Technology (RIST; President: Masahiro Seki), the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE; Managing Director: Serge Bogaerts) and the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE; Principal Investigator: John Towns) concluded the memorandum of understanding (hereinafter called MOU) on information exchange concerning promotion of … Continued

Incorporating high performance computing and data analysis to advance their research has big rewards for 10 PhD students from across the country. The students were named recipients of the Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships for 2017-2018, coming out on top in a very competitive selection process. Blue Waters is the leadership computing project funded by the … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign released a study Wednesday detailing the current and projected economic impact of its Blue Waters project on Illinois’ economy. The project manages the nation’s most powerful sustained-performance supercomputer for open-science and its related workforce development and education program. The study finds … Continued

Highlights from an investigation and evaluation of the scientific results from the NCSA Blue Waters supercomputer system “Build it and they will come” is one way to approach building a supercomputer, but it’s not what the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) did with Blue Waters, the largest leadership-class National Science Foundation supercomputer. Prior to … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign released Tuesday the 2016 Blue Waters Project Annual Report, highlighting a year of scientific exploration and breakthroughs enabled by the project’s leadership class supercomputer and its associated support, training, and education efforts. For the project’s third annual report, research teams were … Continued

NCSA Director Edward Seidel has been named vice president for economic development and innovation for the University of Illinois System, pending Board of Trustees approval, President Tim Killeen announced Monday. Seidel has served since August as interim vice president for research, a position that has been restructured and retitled to reflect the U of I … Continued

The CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is hosting a Summer School for graduate and early-career scholars to gain cutting-edge knowledge about scientific problem solving enabled by CyberGIS and geospatial data science. Thirty-six students from around the country are slated … Continued

New website simplifies process of importing and rendering astrophysical data in ‘Houdini.’ Rendering a 3D sun while it makes a coronal mass ejection used to be a task only doable by skilled scientific visualization programmers, like the National Center for Supercomputing Application’s (NCSA) own Kalina Borkiewicz and AJ Christensen. Now, scientists can learn to make … Continued

Shodor and the Blue Waters project have selected 18 undergraduate students from across the country to participate in the Blue Waters Student Internship Program for 2017-2018. Interns will learn to apply high-performance computing to problems in science, mathematics, and engineering through the year-long program. Their experience will begin in late May with a two-week Petascale … Continued

A technical report analyzing use and performance of NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer and all the scientific applications it has run—from its launch in April 2013, until September 2016—shows Blue Waters has spent the majority of its computing time solving large-scale scientific applications. These include projects like understanding the 160-million-atom flu virus capsid, or creating high … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will offer a two-day workshop covering the concepts of deep learning. The NVIDIA Deep Learning Workshop will take place April 3-4, 2017 at the NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark, Urbana, IL. Workshop capacity is limited to 50 people. University of Illinois faculty, … Continued

by Hannah Remmert Twenty-six research teams at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been allocated computation time on the National Center for Supercomputing Application’s (NCSA) sustained-petascale Blue Waters supercomputer after applying in Fall 2016. These allocations range from 25,000 to 600,000 node-hours of compute time over a time span of either six months or … Continued

The Blue Waters supercomputer at Illinois is one of the world’s most powerful computing systems. Each node has many powerful cores, providing campus faculty, staff, postdoctoral students and postdoctoral researchers significant computing power. More than 3 million node-hours yearly are allocated exclusively to projects from our campus, so apply by March 15 to use this … Continued