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2018

NCSA Student Spotlight: Miguel Holgado

If you’ve followed any science-based news over the past few years, you’ve probably read a thing or two about gravitational waves, and how recent discoveries have provided some of the strongest evidence to support Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Back in 2015, researchers from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) used detectors in Washington … Continued


NCSA Faculty Fellow part of $25 million software institute to enable discoveries in high-energy phys

Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced its launch of the Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High-Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP). The $25 million software-focused institute will tackle the unprecedented torrent of data that will come from the high-luminosity running of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator located at … Continued


NCSA hosting 2018 Data Science Day September 27

The Illinois Data Science Initiative (iDSI) is excited to announce the 2018 Data Science Day summit happening at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications on September 27 from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. This event recognizes data science across the University of Illinois and will be of particular interest to those who are: Collecting, archiving, … Continued


NCSA Brown Dog project wins Best Technical Paper at PEARC18

The National Center for Supercomputer Applications’ (NCSA) Brown Dog project was awarded with “Best Technical Paper” at the annual Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. The award marks the NCSA ISDA Team’s third Best Paper award in as many years, following their “Best Accelerating Discovery in Scholarly Research Paper” … Continued


Watch the 2018 NCSA Blue Waters Symposium presentations

Researchers from around the United States convened in Sunriver, Oregon, last month for the 2018 NCSA Blue Waters Symposium to share their research and scientific discoveries from the past year enabled by NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer. Videos from the more than 85 presentations about the research being done using the Blue Waters supercomputer includes both … Continued


XSEDE Campus Champions Celebrate 10 Years

Since the Campus Champions program began in 2008, it has grown to 450 champions, reaching over 200 institutions spanning all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Over the last decade, the Campus Champions’ mission has changed to reflect the diversity and growth of this community, which is, … Continued


NCSA participates in bill signing to establish Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at Illinois was invited to join Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner, state legislators and agency leaders for the signing of HB-5611, which formally created the Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT). NCSA partnered on DoIT’s Smart State Initiative to begin bringing together next-generation technology and highly-skilled expertise to … Continued


NCSA Student Spotlight: Erica Pereira

When one thinks about visualization work at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), they probably imagine the illustrious work of the Advanced Visualization Lab, the DAV group or VI-Bio and their work around phenomena both cosmic and terrestrial. But those types of visualizations aren’t the only type of visual representation being explored at NCSA. … Continued


NCSA’s Women in Tech Group awarded Women in High Performance Computing Affiliate Status

Women@NCSA, a professional organization to foster women in technology and leadership positions at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at Illinois, has been recognized as one of the first WHPC Affiliate organizations in the new Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) Pilot Programme. The WHPC program seeks to expand and maintain diversity and engagement … Continued


NCSA Student Spotlight: Mone’t Alberts

Mone’t Alberts was one of 18 undergraduate students from across the country to receive support for the 2017-2018 Blue Waters Student Internship Program at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This program provided Mone’t with a $5,000 stipend, two weeks at an intensive high-performance computing workshop, and … Continued


NCSA’s partnership with Trusted CI helps secure over $7 billion worth of science

For more than five years, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been a member of Trusted CI, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, in partnership with Indiana University, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Together, NCSA and Trusted CI have helped … Continued


Five years of fellows: Celebrating the Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications’ (NCSA) Blue Waters project, located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign marked the fifth year of the Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship program last month with the introduction of 2018 cadre of Graduate Fellows. Since its inception, the Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship has allowed graduate students from all over … Continued


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