Announcements NCSA and U of I Announce New Center for Astrophysical Surveys NCSA and Illinois’ new Center for AstroPhysical Surveys aims to advance survey science and increase our understanding of the Universe. September 8, 2020
Announcements NCSA Supports IGB’s New NSF-funded Molecule Maker Lab Institute to Accelerate AI Research NCSA’s Software Associate Director Kenton McHenry collaborates and shares expertise with MMLI team to advance molecular science. September 4, 2020
Announcements NSF and NIFA Awards CDA $20M to Develop New AIFARMS Institute UIUC Center for Digital Agriculture wins $20M award from National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program to accelerate AI research and agricultural Innovation through new AIFARMS Institute. August 26, 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
Announcements NCSA and SMU Announce New Strategic Partnership NCSA and SMU form partnership to promote advanced research computing. June 22, 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
Announcements NSF Awards NCSA $10 Million for Deployment of Delta NCSA takes an active role in expanding the adoption of GPU-based computing and continues to be at the forefront of advanced research computing. June 3, 2020
Announcements NCSA and Compute Ontario Announce Partnership to Promote Advanced Research Computing NCSA forms international partnership with Compute Ontario to leverage supercomputing assets and achieve common goals. May 27, 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
Announcements NCSA Announces 2020 Recipient of Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Ananya Cleetus receives NCSA’s eDream Institute’s Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Award at the Illinois Innovation Prize virtual ceremony. April 6, 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
Announcements NCSA Allocates Over 21 Million Node Hours in New Blue Waters Supercomputer Awards Over $13 million worth of allocations in Blue Waters supercomputer awards have been given to researchers and faculty at Illinois studying a diversity of topics. February 28, 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
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
Announcements NCSA Launches Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation Combining research, educational opportunities and integration with private industry to spur continued AI Innovation at Illinois. November 13, 2019