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2017

NCSA to celebrate breakthrough Cyberfest 20th anniversary

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Roger Ebert’s Film Festival are hosting a 20th anniversary of Cyberfest, a technology and arts festival that celebrated the birthday of the fictional artificial intelligence character HAL 9000—written as becoming operational in Urbana on January 12, … Continued


Immersive visualization pioneer Donna Cox to receive IMERSA lifetime achievement award

Dr. Donna Cox, MFA, PhD, director of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) and “Culture and Society Theme” at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 8th annual IMERSA 2017 Summit in Denver, Colorado this week. The Summit creates an opportunity … Continued


NCSA faculty affiliate wins Sloan fellowship

Joaquin Vieira, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Illinois and a faculty affiliate at the National Center for Computing Applications (NCSA) has been named a Sloan Research Fellow for 2017. The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded … Continued


ExxonMobil sets record on NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer

ExxonMobil, working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has achieved a major breakthrough with proprietary software using more than four times the previous number of processors used on complex oil and gas reservoir simulation models to improve exploration and production results. The breakthrough in parallel simulation … Continued


Blue Waters launches a Weekly Webinar Series

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce the Blue Waters Weekly Webinar Series. The series will provide the research and education communities with a variety of opportunities to learn about methods, tools, and resources available to advance their computational and data analytics skills, with … Continued


GECAT project announces two new funding opportunities

The Global Initiative to Enhance @scale and Distributed Computing and Analysis Technologies (GECAT) project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has two exciting new funding opportunities. The first is to establish new International Virtual Research Organizations (IVRO) partnerships, and the second is to seed new international collaborations with existing NCSA IVROs. This GECAT … Continued


NCSA offering undergraduate software research opportunity

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is offering a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site for the summer of 2017. Undergrad students from across the country need to apply by March 20 to be considered for this hands-on research opportunity. The REU project … Continued


2017 International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States are invited to apply for the eighth International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences, to be held June 25 to 30, 2017, in Boulder, Colorado, United States of America. Applications are due March 6, 2017. The summer school … Continued


NCSA’s cybersecurity and data expertise engaged for ‘Smart State’ initiative

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications’ (NCSA) world-renowned cybersecurity and large-scale data capabilities are being called upon to advance Illinois as the nation’s premier “Smart State.” On Thursday the state of Illinois and University of Illinois System announced a new partnership that will bring together next-generation technology and highly-skilled expertise to improve quality of life, … Continued


Industry Program study labeled ‘key scientific article’ by engineering publication

Advances in Engineering—which disseminates the most important developments in engineering fields for their highly technical/academic audience—has recently labeled a paper that came from the National Center for Supercomputing Application’s (NCSA) Industry Program as a “key scientific article contributing to science and engineering research excellence.” Program Manager and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research Professor Seid … Continued


NCSA intern credits SPIN Program for dream career opportunity

by Hannah Remmert Emily Chen, SPIN (Students Pushing INnovation) intern at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has accepted a co-op position at Parker Hannifin, the global leader in motion and control technologies where she will be doing “Internet of Things” (IoT) engineering. More specifically, she will … Continued


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