Announcements NCSA’s Blue Waters Supercomputer Helps Map the Earth A small project to track melting in one section of polar ice is now mapping the entire Earth. November 17, 2021
Science Features NCSA Software Fits Many Research Toolboxes A global leader in open-source software development, NCSA ramps up its software directorate to do even more. October 20, 2021
Publications Marginal Land for Growing Bioenergy Crops Less Than Estimated NCSA’s Blue Waters aids researchers in estimating marginal land available for bioenergy production. September 23, 2021
In the News Back-to-School Tech for Families in One Illinois School District NCSA’s Community Data Clinic helps provide laptops and internet access. September 7, 2021
Announcements Researchers Selected for Delta External Advisory Committee Group will help guide project’s growth and development August 30, 2021
Announcements Five PhD Students Named New Frontiers Graduate Fellows The early career researchers receive substantial support and time on NCSA’s sustained-petascale performance Blue Waters supercomputer. August 24, 2021
Research Helping Teens Study the Universe High school students got first-hand experience studying space and the Universe last week through the Girls’ Astronomy Summer Camp run by Illinois’ Department of Astronomy and NCSA’s Center for Astrophysical Surveys. July 20, 2021
Science Features How Do You Train a Supercomputer to Learn? NCSA’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation uses COVID-19 chest x-rays to explore best methods. June 8, 2021
Announcements NCSA’s CILogon Selected for Incommon Catalyst Program The Catalyst Program brings identity and access management expertise, support to the InCommon community. June 8, 2021
Announcements Dark Energy Survey Releases Most Precise Look at the Universe’s Evolution The Dark Energy Survey collaboration has created the largest ever maps of the distribution and shapes of galaxies, tracing both ordinary and dark matter in the universe out to a distance of more than 7 billion light years. June 7, 2021
Research Big Data Aids PPE Research University of Illinois professor awarded a $200,000 RAPID grant to design a 3D-printable medical mask inspired by the nasal structures of animals. May 26, 2021
Science Features Scientists Monitoring Magnetic ‘Pothole’ in Space Geomagnetic field forecasting models run on NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer identify new variations in the South Atlantic Anomaly. February 3, 2021
Announcements Applications Open for New Frontiers Initiative Graduate Research Fellowships The fellowship will provide PhD students with a year of full-time research support, including a $38,000 stipend, up to $12,000 in tuition allowance, and an allocation up to 100,000 node-hours on the powerful Blue Waters petascale computing system. February 3, 2021
Announcements Dark Energy Survey Makes Public Catalog of Nearly 700 Million Astronomical Objects The international collaboration that includes NCSA, releases a massive, public collection of astronomical data and calibrated images from six years of surveys. This data release is one of the largest astronomical catalogs issued to date. January 14, 2021
Research NCSA’s Blue Waters Helps NASA Conduct Groundbreaking Tree Mapping Study and Carbon Research Machine learning lets researchers map 1.8 billion trees across an area of more than 500,000 square miles. October 19, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA’s Donna J. Cox Honored With Rare IPS Technology Innovation Award This is just the eighth time since the society’s founding in 1958 that this honor has been bestowed. September 4, 2020