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Category: Announcements
15 Students and Five Faculty from Illinois Receive Ncsa’s Fiddler Innovation Fellowship
NCSA’s Fiddler Innovation Fellowship has been awarded to twelve underclassmen at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for their research, spanning everything from neural networks to bionanotechnology.
Blue Waters Announces Four Webinars for October and November
NCSA has announced four new Blue Waters Webinars taking place over the next two months.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
NCSA’s Blue Waters project provides $1.08 billion direct return to Illinois’ economy
Editor’s note: The original version of this article had inaccurate funding information related to the construction of the National Petascale Computing Facility. It has been corrected. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign released a study Wednesday detailing the current and projected economic impact of its Blue Waters project on Illinois’ economy. […]
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).