NCSA Student Spotlight: Miguel Holgado Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email 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 September 5, 2018
NCSA Faculty Fellow part of $25 million software institute to enable discoveries in high-energy phys Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email 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 September 4, 2018
NCSA hosting 2018 Data Science Day September 27 Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email 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 August 29, 2018
Blue Waters professor Kaiyu Guan receives AGU Early Career Award Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email URBANA, IL – What if we could predict, in real-time, crop productivity and water use for the entire United States corn belt? Using the help of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)’s Blue Waters supercomputer, Blue Waters Professor Kaiyu Guan has found a way to simulate and project crop growth and water use to … Continued August 10, 2018
NCSA Brown Dog project wins Best Technical Paper at PEARC18 Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email 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 August 7, 2018
Watch the 2018 NCSA Blue Waters Symposium presentations Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email 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 August 6, 2018
XSEDE announces 2018-2019 Campus Champions Fellows Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email July 30, 2018
Ruby Mendenhall Charts Progress Using HPC, Big Data to Flag Unidentified Historical Sources Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email July 27, 2018
XSEDE Campus Champions Celebrate 10 Years Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email 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 July 24, 2018
NCSA participates in bill signing to establish Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email 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 July 23, 2018
XSEDE allocates $7.3M worth of computing time to U.S. researchers in latest allocation cycle Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email July 23, 2018
NCSA Student Spotlight: Erica Pereira Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email 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 July 20, 2018
NCSA’s Women in Tech Group awarded Women in High Performance Computing Affiliate Status Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email 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 July 19, 2018
NCSA Student Spotlight: Mone’t Alberts Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email 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 June 22, 2018
NCSA’s partnership with Trusted CI helps secure over $7 billion worth of science Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email 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 June 21, 2018
Five years of fellows: Celebrating the Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship Share this page: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email 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 June 21, 2018