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Registration is now open for the Linux Clusters Institute’s (LCI) weeklong, hands-on Introductory and Intermediate workshops. These workshops will cover the fundamentals of setting up and administering a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster and will be led by some of the world’s leading HPC experts. LCI Intermediate Workshop Early bird registration ends April 15! May 13-17, … Continued

Birth of Planet Earth, a new 24-minute giant screen science documentary for digital fulldome cinemas, had its global premiere at the Zeiss-Großplanetarium in Berlin this month. The film is a co-production of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spitz Creative Media, and Thomas … Continued

Registration is now open for the Petascale Computing Institute on August 19–23, 2019. The Institute is free and open to everyone. For more information about agenda, locations, and how to register, visit the website here. Keynote Man vs. Machine: The Challenge of Engineering Programs for HPC (Gordon Bell, HPC Pioneer) The first era of scientific … Continued

Jasmine Shih attended Urbana High school, and participated in the executive intern program during her senior year where she began working at NCSA on a web project when she was first inspired by the demos produced by the Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL). Fast forward to her senior year at the University of Illinois, Jasmine is … Continued

With over 30 years of leadership in high-performance computing and data, NCSA is home to the largest industrial HPC program in the world. NCSA recognizes the role of research in industrial advancements and innovation as a critical part of its immense success. NCSA Industry’s domain expertise and cyberinfrastructure can be leveraged to accomplish the grandest … Continued

by Katherine Kendig Researchers in industry can now solve their most complex modeling and simulation challenges faster. The powerful iForge cluster at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at Illinois provides our partners in industry with the compute resources and user support they need to coax efficient performance and increased productivity out of even … Continued

The Crops in silico project (Cis), led by the University of Illinois, has been awarded a $5 million grant extended across four years from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR). This grant will help to extend the original Cis project, creating a computer platform that links models across different biological scales — from … Continued

Dr. Chenhui Shao joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August 2016, after completing a Ph.D. and postdoc at the University of Michigan. Before arriving at the Urbana campus, Dr. Shao’s former advisor, Dr. Jack Hu, told him to do something as soon as he got settled in. “He told me to connect with … Continued

Three undergraduate student groups from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have been awarded the top three places in this year’s Illinois Engineering Open House (EOH) Original Undergraduate Research awards. The awards, which were chosen by The Grainger College of Engineering alumni judges, were selected out of the entire Illinois engineering campus and took … Continued

Thirty-eight research groups at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been allocated new computation time on the Blue Waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This round of allocations provides over 17 million node-hours, equivalent to over half a billion core hours, and … Continued

A collaboration between the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Mayo Clinic, and the University of Michigan are introducing a new machine-learning-driven approach to latent tuberculosis infections (LTBI) diagnostics. While leveraging a high throughput detection technology and powerful bioinformatics, this approach aims to reveal multi-marker signatures for LTBI diagnosis and … Continued

NCSA faculty fellow, Ruby Mendenhall is taking an innovative approach in addressing gun violence and crime – by looking at it as a public health issue. Mendenhall, an Assistant Dean for the Carle College of Medicine and an Associate Professor in African-American studies and Sociology at the University of Illinois, is using big data to … Continued

Join us for an Illinois faculty and staff workshop that will shape the future of the forthcoming Center for Digital Agriculture at Illinois on March 13 & 14, 2019 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The Center, which was recently awarded seed funding from the Office of the Provost, The Grainger College of … Continued

With the annual Engineering Open House right around the corner, here are 10 reasons to visit this student-led and fun-filled weekend of exciting events, futuristic exhibits, and tons of competitions and prizes! If you have ever wondered what a supercomputer is, or how our universe came into being, be sure to visit the National Center … Continued

The nanomanufacturing (nanoMFG) node at Illinois presented its first two-day workshop on February 26-27 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The workshop focused on data-science enabled advances in nanomanufacturing in nanotechnology to explore future opportunities in nanomanufacturing. The workshop, led by PI Kimani Toussaint, Associate Professor … Continued

The Illinois Center for Digital Agriculture is pleased to announce a request for seed funding proposals. Seed funding awards up to $50k for one year will be made for new collaborations in at least one of the four theme areas in the Center for Digital Agriculture. The proposal submission deadline is Friday, April 5, 2019 … Continued