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by Katherine Kendig Brian Jewett, research scientist in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Illinois, used to be a storm chaser. Or perhaps storm “racer” is a better term: On cold winter days when others were bundling up or staying home, he would head out to the Peoria airport in anticipation of a snowstorm. If … Continued

Scientists at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have pioneered the use of GPU-accelerated deep learning for rapid detection and characterization of gravitational waves. This new approach will enable astronomers to study gravitational waves using minimal computational resources, reducing time to discovery and increasing the scientific … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications’ (NCSA) popular Blue Waters Webinar series kicks off its 2018 offerings on Wednesday, January 24. The free NCSA Blue Waters Webinars are designed to increase high performance computing (HPC) knowledge and skills among the research community. All webinars are broadcast on YouTube and recorded for viewing anytime. Registered participants … Continued

Laxmikant “Sanjay” Kale, a professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a NCSA Faculty Affiliate, was named to the the 2017 class of fellows from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the scientific computing community’s largest society. At Illinois, Kale has pioneered an effort to integrate adaptive runtime systems into … Continued

Researchers around the world can now explore the first three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) processed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At a special session held during the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C., scientists on the Dark Energy Survey … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is beginning the application process for the 2018-2019 Faculty Fellows program. This competitive fellowship program provides a unique opportunity for faculty and researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by offering seed funding for startup collaborative research projects. Those interested should attend the two upcoming events for … Continued