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
Announcements Comments Sought on Scientific Data Security Concerns and Practices Webinar Oct. 7 at noon CDT to discuss recommendations. October 2, 2020
Announcements NCSA Releases Latest Blue Waters Project Annual Report Dive into the groundbreaking research being done on Blue Waters, from astrophysics to biology. September 15, 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
Announcements NCSA to Be Data Management Partner for New NSF CINet Grant This project will use two software tools developed by NCSA: the Clowder Framework and the Geostreaming Data Framework. August 21, 2020
Announcements Center for Digital Agriculture Announces 12 Seed Funding Recipients The funded projects will span nearly every facet of digital agriculture, from crop sciences to deep learning. August 20, 2020
Research NCSA Researchers Use XSEDE to Accelerate Star Merger Simulations A team from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) used artificial intelligence on XSEDE systems to obtain a correction factor for merger simulations. June 30, 2020
Research A New Way of Designing Global Satellite Missions A Cornell University researcher taps work he did using NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer to fix a problem that’s puzzled researchers for nearly 40 years. June 26, 2020
Announcements NCSA Welcomes 2020-21 Faculty Fellows The NCSA Faculty Fellowship is a competitive program for faculty and researchers at the University of Illinois which provides seed funding for new collaborations that include NCSA staff as integral contributors to the project. June 19, 2020
Science Features NCSA’s CSND Provides Vital Services Amid COVID-19 Pandemic As everyone at NCSA and beyond continues to adapt to working from home during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Cybersecurity and Networking Division helps to alleviate stressors and worries with technology. June 2, 2020
Profiles NCSA Gravity Group Interns Build Strong Foundation for Their Futures Four NCSA Gravity Group interns share bright plans for their futures post graduation. May 21, 2020