Workshops held by the Midwest Big Data Hub help to improve data skills across a variety of midwestern states.
Author: NCSA News Staff
C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute Funds Projects
Three newly funded projects from the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute will enable researchers to 1) model the spread of COVID-19 for intervention policies, 2) model homelessness caused by the shutdown and target aid for at-risk communities, and 3) develop machine intelligence methods to aid in the interrogation of medical images from COVID-19 patients.
NCSA’s Stuart Levy Wins Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence Award
Levy, a Senior Research Programmer in NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Lab, received a campuswide honor for his decades of service and groundbreaking work in the realm of scientific visualization.
Using Supercomputers to Understand Aviation Turbulence
Katelyn Barbaraer, a former Blue Waters Graduate Fellow from the University of North Dakota, is using supercomputers to help the aviation industry better evaluate turbulence
NCSA Joins Nationwide Collaboration to Combat COVID-19
The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, which spans multiple research institutions and private companies, seeks to apply computational resources and artificial intelligence to initially study COVID-19 and ways to curb its spread.
Two Students from the University of Queensland Take on Research Internships at NCSA
For eight weeks this winter, two students from the University of Queensland in Australia gained hands-on at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) as research interns.
NIST-funded Collaboration Featuring NCSA Renewed for $20 Million
The Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, hosted at Colorado State University, has been granted a five-year extension from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
NCSA Allocates Over 21 Million Node Hours in New Blue Waters Supercomputer Awards
Over $13 million worth of allocations in Blue Waters supercomputer awards have been given to researchers and faculty at Illinois studying a diversity of topics.
Blue Waters Aids Researchers in Breakthrough Flu Simulations
Rommie Amaro, a Blue Waters researcher from UC-San Diego, has used Blue Waters to simulate movement in the viral envelope of the flu virus.
NCSA Collaborates to Launch Knowledge Engine for Genomics
The platform, developed as part of NIH’s Big Data to Knowledge Center of Excellence, will help to advance genomics research.