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
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. October 30, 2019
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
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
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
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
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