Announcements From Planets to Galaxies and Gravitational Waves The international DES collaboration uses a massive, public collection of astronomical data and calibrated images compiled with the help of NCSA to make remarkable discoveries about our Universe. June 14, 2021
Announcements C3.ai DTI Announces AI for Energy and Climate Security Awards The consortium awarded $4.4M in funding and advanced computing resources to 21 projects at partner institutions. June 10, 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
Profiles NCSA Researcher Ben Grosser Is Breaking the Internet Ben Grosser, an NCSA affiliate and University of Illinois professor, is using social media to reveal truth, and art, in the digital world. June 2, 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
Announcements Center for Digital Agriculture Contributes to Launch COALESCE Co-led by NCSA’s Girish Chowdhary, the COALESCE initiative will help make field management more efficient and tactical. April 29, 2021
Science Features NCSA Teams Contribute to Return-to-school Planning Leveraging diverse expertise, researchers and designers from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications collaborated with the University of Illinois on two tools to help schools safely transition back to in-person learning. April 26, 2021
Announcements NCSA Team Contributes to Cover Crop Decision Support Tool The Cover Crop Analyzer tool will use simulation to help farmers take the guesswork out of crop selection. March 1, 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 C3.ai DTI Announces Call for Papers to Advance AI for Energy and Climate Security Funded proposals will receive up to $5M and include unlimited free access to the C3 AI Suite hosted on the Microsoft Azure Cloud. February 2, 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
Publications NCSA Faculty Fellows Gain Nutritional Insights from Biomarkers A research team led by NCSA Faculty Fellows were able to apply machine learning to human nutrition research. December 2, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA Wins Multiple Awards During SC20 NCSA and our partner institutions were honored to take home awards during the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC20), spanning from Agriculture to Visualization and many domains in between. November 24, 2020