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Four staff members from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign got the chance to spend a week in La Serena, Chile, this summer, including a day and night spent on an Andean summit. The team traveled over 24 hours to Chile to work on the configuration and … Continued

Noise can often disrupt the effectiveness and signal of an electrocardiogram (ECG), a test used to measure the electrical activity of the heart. With the added noise, the process of interpreting the signal and consequently diagnosing patients becomes that much harder. Arjun Gupta, an undergraduate research assistant at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign won Best Academic/Government collaboration as part of the annual HPCwire Editors’ Choice Awards, at the 2019 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC19), in Denver, Colorado. “NCSA is honored to be awarded for our contributions in geospatial … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is excited to announce the creation of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII), which seeks to continue the groundbreaking work already being done in the domains of Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. “We are truly excited to announce … Continued

by Shaylee Bent From using supercomputers to peer into the data behind gun violence and mental health to simulating cosmic star mergers, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a long-standing history of transcending traditional borders of academic research. In line with this tradition, NCSA students from … Continued

Software continues to eat the world, and these days, machine learning is as popular a realm as any under the software umbrella. Applying machine learning algorithms to various data sets has exploded in popularity, due mostly to a need to be able to quickly perform analysis and classification tasks. At NCSA, researchers are working to … Continued

A $3 million National Science Foundation grant will develop and establish the Permafrost Discovery Gateway, an online resource that will support scientists as they work to better understand changes in permafrost in the Arctic. A group of institutions, including the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will seek … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications’ (NCSA) Blue Waters project offers a webinar series that addresses Data Analytics, Petascale Computing, Scientific Software Ecosystems, Scientific Visualization, Scientific Workflows, Software Engineering and Workforce Development and Inclusion. Over the next two months, we will offer the following four new webinars: October 16, 2019: Making Containers Easier with HPC … Continued

In a new Expert Recommendation appearing in Nature Reviews Physics, representatives from multiple communities, including big data analytics, artificial intelligence, high performance computing, physics, and astronomy, come together to discuss a community roadmap for integrating innovations from the big data Revolution into multi-messenger astrophysics (MMA). The paper, “Enabling real-time multi-messenger astrophysics discoveries with deep learning,” … Continued

The Linux Clusters Institute (LCI) is currently seeking applications from institutions interested in hosting the 2020 LCI Introductory, Intermediate, OR Advanced Workshops. These workshops provide education and technical training for the deployment and use of computing clusters to the high performance computing community worldwide. The deadline to submit your host site letter of interest is … Continued

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the University of Illinois is proud to announce associate professor of mechanical science and engineering Elif Ertekin as the new Director of nanoMFG, NCSA’s NSF-funded nanomanufacturing node, the first of its kind in the United States. “Our goal is to develop tools that are enabling for the … Continued

Deep in the center of the Earth is a fluid outer core that generates Earth’s magnetic field like a magnet with its two magnetic poles aligning closely to the geographic north and south poles. This alignment has been long used by mankind for navigation. But the magnetic field of the Earth plays a far more … Continued

URBANA, IL – The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Trusted CI, the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (CCoE), a $12.5 million renewal grant to extend the CCoE through 2024. Over the past seven years, Trusted CI pioneered and set the standard for an NSF CCoE through continuous innovation in cybersecurity and cultivating the NSF … Continued

As farmers prepare to start harvest in a year of challenges from Mother Nature, they’re also sorting through farm program payment decisions based on the changes from the 2018 Farm Bill. To help with these decisions, farmers can take advantage of updated technology to make smart business decisions. The Gardner-farmdoc Payment Calculator is an online … Continued