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Kay Avila, Bill Glick and Matt Kollross from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) traveled to La Serena, Chile recently to begin building a security framework for LSST, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. This is the first time NCSA has installed systems outside of the United States in its 31 year history. LSST is … Continued

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a $1.8 million grant to establish an Open Storage Network (OSN) to support big data research across the U.S. The Midwest Big Data Hub (MBDH) and the National Data Service (NDS), hosted at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will … Continued

Nineteen undergraduate students from across the U.S. have been selected to participate in the Blue Waters Student Internship Program for the 2018-2019 academic year. This program, a collaboration between the National Center for Supercomputing Applications’ (NCSA) Blue Waters project and Shodor Education Foundation, is now entering into its tenth year and provides an year-long opportunity … Continued

Thirty-four research teams at the University of Illinois have been awarded an allocation of computation time on the sustained petascale Blue Waters supercomputer, one of the most powerful high-performance computing systems in the world, located at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). This allocation process, the … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be co-hosting the 2018 iteration of the Broadening Participation in Visualization (BPViz) Workshop, focused on how visualization enables data science for all. NCSA is co-hosting this workshop with Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute. The June 13th session will take place at … Continued

by Katherine Kendig Visitors to San Marco Basilica in Venice, Italy are likely to feel a sense of awe: the sheer mass of the thousand-year-old structure and the details of its ostentatious decoration are undeniably impressive. But Mia Trentin, a postdoctoral fellow with the Cyprus Institute, an international partner of the National Center for Supercomputing … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at Illinois is pleased to announce that team applications for the NCSA Blue Waters GPU Hackathon are now open. This event will take place September 10-14, 2018 at NCSA. The deadline to apply is June 18, 2018. Prior GPU experience is not required, as those selected will be … Continued

The Blue Waters project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has selected ten graduate fellows from across the United States, spanning various fields of study, as recipients of the Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship. Blue Waters is a leadership-class supercomputer funded by the National Science Foundation and operated by NCSA at the University of … Continued

The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC) allocates a portion of the Blue Waters supercomputer located at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The GLCPC awards peer-reviewed allocations on the Blue Waters supercomputer to faculty and research groups from member institutions. The GLCPC member institutions include … Continued

To lower the barriers for underrepresented groups and communities for gaining access to leadership-class computing resources, the Blue Waters project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) recently announced a call for proposals for Broadening Participation allocations. The call invited proposals from computational and data analysis projects with requirements for which the Blue Waters … Continued

Corn and soybean fields look similar from space—at least they used to. But now, scientists have proven a new technique for distinguishing the two crops using satellite data and the processing power of supercomputers. “If we want to predict corn or soybean production for Illinois or the entire United States, we have to know where … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has named Faculty Fellowship awardees for 2018-2019. These six Illinois faculty members will work with NCSA to investigate a wide array of subjects including cancer, agriculture, cinema, economics, civil infrastructure and more. Each faculty member will work closely with experts at … Continued

NCSA’s Student Spotlight is on former software development intern, Ryan Chui. Ryan worked inside NCSA’s world-class industry program, in areas of software installation, benchmarking and development, while pursuing his Master’s degree in bioinformatics at U of I. “Working with NCSA Industry has given me a lot of practical experience, which is definitely something that I … Continued

At the April American Physical Society Meeting, researchers from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at Illinois, will continue to build on their groundbreaking research on deep learning astronomy with a new article, “Classification and Clustering of LIGO Data with Deep Transfer Learning,” which has been accepted for publication in Physics Review D this … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications’ (NCSA) Gravity Group has been awarded First Place for Original Undergrad Research at Illinois’ 2018 Engineering Open House (EOH) for their work, “What Have in Common Artificial Intelligence, Supercomputers and Black Hole Collisions?” EOH is an annual student-led event featuring two days of exhibits and competitions that showcase the … Continued

Each year, the Office of Student Financial Aid coordinates the University of Illinois Student Employee of the Year contest and recognition event to recognize outstanding contributions made by undergraduate student employees on campus. This year, out of more than 10,000 undergraduate student employees, the Advanced Visualization Lab’s (AVL) SPIN intern Dawn Anh Nguyen, was named … Continued