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.
Author: NCSA News Staff
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.
NCSA Faculty Affiliate Receives Fulbright Specialist Grant
Anita Chan, a Fiddler Innovation Faculty Fellow at NCSA and a professor in Information Sciences and Media and Cinema Studies, will receive a prestigious Fulbright Specialist grant.
NCSA Helps Launch IN-CORE Platform to Model Community Resilience and Natural Hazards
IN-CORE, a software platform developed by the NIST-funded Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, will help researchers model both natural hazard impacts on communities and the resilience of those communitie
Blue Waters Professor Awarded $3.3 Million for DOE Project
Kaiyu Guan, a Blue Waters professor at NCSA, and his research team have been awarded a grant to measure carbon emissions in bioenergy crops.
NCSA Engineers Travel to Chilean Base Data Center and Summit for LSST Project
Over this past summer, four NCSA engineers travelled to Chile for the ongoing work involved with the LSST project.
NCSA Student Spotlight: Arjun Gupta
NCSA Student Arjun Gupta used the insights he gained from astrophysics research to peer inside the human heart.
NCSA and Partners Win Hpcwire Editors’ Choice Award for Earthdem Collaboration
NCSA has been awarded the Best Academic/Government collaboration award for EarthDEM, a collaboration with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency that seeks to create digital elevation models of the entire Earth.
NCSA Launches Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation
Combining research, educational opportunities and integration with private industry to spur continued AI Innovation at Illinois.