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
Science Features Educating the Next Generation of Supercomputer Users With Blue Waters Tulin Kaman, a researcher at the University of Arkansas, has used the Blue Waters Undergraduate Internship program to offer students hands-on HPC research experience. May 15, 2020
Funding 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. April 29, 2020
Announcements 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. April 17, 2020
Research 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 March 31, 2020
Announcements 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. March 26, 2020
Funding 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). March 2, 2020
Research 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. February 25, 2020
Announcements 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. February 2, 2020
Honors and Awards 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. January 30, 2020
Announcements 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 January 28, 2020
Funding 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. January 23, 2020
Honors and Awards 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. November 20, 2019