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
Research Hunt for the Supertwister Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign collaborated with visualization experts at NCSA in an effort to shed light on how the most violent tornadoes form and to create animations that reveal the inner behavior of tornado producing storms. November 8, 2004
In the News Playing the Supercomputer Game When Sony later released the Linux Kit for the PS2, interest in the machines spread beyond the gaming community to a seemingly unlikely place: the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). May 27, 2003
Announcements NSF Creates TeraGrid The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $53 million to four U.S. research institutions to build and deploy a distributed terascale facility (DTF). August 9, 2001
Research NCSA Hits One Million CPU Hours in a Month August 1999 marked the first time usage of a National Science Foundation high-performance computer topped one million normalized CPU hours in one month. August 31, 1999
In the News Newsweek Features NCSA Champaign-Urbana makes an appearance on Newsweek’s top tech cities list, due in-part to NCSA. November 2, 1998
Research Eli Lilly Develops Asthma Drug David Herron of Eli Lilly and Company harnessed high-performance computing to aid the fight against asthma from the moment the company joined NCSA’s Industrial Program, now the Private Sector Program, in 1987. January 10, 1992