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
Research NCSA Contributes to Mobileshield COVID Testing Lab NCSA experts help to automate lab processes to make COVID-19 saliva testing more efficient and mobile November 19, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA Receives Honors in 2020 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards The biannual awards recognize achievements by users of high-performance computing technologies. November 17, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA Receives Honors in 2020 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards 17th annual HPCwire Awards presented to leaders in the global HPC community. November 16, 2020
Science Features NCSA Contributes to Development of Safer Illinois App Multiple NCSA staff members joined a campuswide collaboration to create the Safer Illinois app, that allows students and faculty to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. October 20, 2020
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 William “Bill” Gropp Voted IEEE Computer Society President The president oversees IEEE Computer Society programs and operations and is a nonvoting member of most IEEE Computer Society program boards and committees. October 14, 2020