Announcements Blue Waters Announces Four Webinars for October and November NCSA has announced four new Blue Waters Webinars taking place over the next two months. October 10, 2019
Announcements University of Illinois Announces Center for Digital Agriculture The new center will combine campus’ areas of expertise in engineering and agriculture to cement Illinois’ position as an innovator in this emerging field of agricultural technology, and develop solutions to agricultural problems that use digital technology. October 8, 2019
In the News Roadmap to the Stars: Accelerating Innovation in Multi-Messenger Astrophysics NCSA leads paper in Nature Reviews Physics concerning Big Data and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics October 3, 2019
Announcements NCSA’s nanoMFG Node Names Elif Ertekin Director Elif Ertekin, associate professor of mechanical science and engineering at the University of Illinois, selected as Director of nanoMFG Node, headquartered at NCSA at the University of Illinois. October 1, 2019
Research Understanding Earth’s Geomagnetism with Blue Waters Dr. Weijia Kuang from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is using Blue Waters to gain insights into the inner reaches of the Earth September 25, 2019
Funding Trusted CI Collaboration Receives $12.5 Million Renewal Grant from NSF Newly-awarded five-year funding ensures continued cybersecurity support of NSF research September 19, 2019
Science Features Collaboration Creates New Way for Farmers to Estimate Commodity Payments An online calculator developed at the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications for farmdoc helps farmers estimate payments from 2018 Farm Bill. September 18, 2019
Announcements NCSA Partners to Create NSF-Funded FABRIC Platform NCSA partners in establishing FABRIC, a testbed for reimagining how data can be stored, computed and moved. September 17, 2019
Announcements NCSA Collaborates with NGA to Create the World’s Most Powerful Geospatial System The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced a new collaboration between the Blue Waters Project, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the University of Minnesota and The Ohio State University to produce digital elevation models (DEM) of the entire Earth August 2, 2019
Research Collaborative Efforts Produce Clinical Workflows for Fast Translational Genetic Analysis NCSA’s Genomics team partnered with the Mayo Clinic to speed up clinical testing as part of the Mayo Grand Challenge project May 3, 2019
Science Features ‘History Was Here’: NCSA’s Technology is Helping Unlock the Mystery of Medieval Graffiti NCSA is helping scholars reach back in time to understand medieval history through graffiti. May 22, 2018
Announcements New Broadening Participation Allocations Now Available on Blue Waters Supercomputer—Apply by March 1 This new category is open to faculty and research staff at U.S. academic institutions who have not previously been a PI on a research allocation on the Blue Waters system. February 7, 2018
In the News Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein’s Prediction For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity. February 11, 2016
Research A Direct Bridge An algorithm developed by University of Arkansas engineers aids both computational scientists and experimentalists exploring the atomic scale structure of materials. April 17, 2014
Research Behind the Scenes of ‘Hubble 3D’ Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, this documentary film takes viewers through distant galaxies as it tells the story of the repair and upgrade of the Hubble telescope. November 9, 2010
Research NCSA Researcher Simulates Entire Life Form A recent simulation of the satellite tobacco mosaic virus is a striking first. There’s never been a computer simulation of an entire life form in atomic detail. Until now. March 10, 2006