In the News NCSA Supercomputers Help Accurately Predict Volcanic Eruption Using NCSA’s iForge and Blue Waters, UIUC researchers predicted a volcanic event at the Sierra Negra Volcano five months in advance. June 6, 2022
In the News NCSA’s McGinty Leading Proposal for New Network of Supercomputing Centers The International Association of Supercomputing Centers would serve centers worldwide. June 3, 2022
In the News NCSA Personnel Join New Research Collaborative Eight institutions form the Taylor Geospatial Institute to further establish the Midwest as the epicenter of national geospatial research. May 4, 2022
In the News Clowder Helps SMU Researchers Identify Infrastructure Deserts in Dallas Using the Clowder framework developed at NCSA, researchers identified 62 highly deficient neighborhoods, shedding light on the impact of infrastructure on housing, health and quality of life. April 1, 2022
In the News NCSA Software Helps Monitor Arctic Permafrost and Climate Change A team of researchers uses deep learning, satellite imagery, software and supercomputers to make permafrost data more accessible, leading to insights on climate change. March 15, 2022
In the News NCSA Helps NASA Develop Visualization Prototype for Earth Data NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Lab worked with researchers and scientists to make Earth data more accessible and easier to process. February 22, 2022
In the News FAIR Guidelines Set the Tone for Data Accessibility and Reusability NCSA researchers use high-energy physics and AI to develop FAIR guidelines that drive discovery and innovation through improving data management and stewarding best practices. February 14, 2022
In the News Cover Crop Tool Update Helps Illinois Farmers and Soil Health The free tool now includes enhanced weather forecasting and nitrogen estimation, leading to better-informed decisions in farming. January 26, 2022
In the News Dark Energy Survey Verifies Supervoid NCSA-supported research helps map the Eridanus supervoid near Earth. Verifying its existence could mean that the universe is expanding faster than expected. January 19, 2022
In the News NCSA Contributes to the Most Extensive Free-Floating Planet Collection To Date Through the Dark Energy Survey, astronomers discovered more than 70 Jupiter-sized exoplanets in the Milky Way. January 14, 2022
In the News NCSA Researchers Co-Author Article on the Damaging Effects of COVID-19 on Lung Tissue Working closely with the Center’s Healthcare Innovation Program Office, the NCSA Visual Analytics team and faculty affiliates collaborate with NIH and ISB scientists to gain insight into future COVID-19 treatments. December 14, 2021
In the News Blue Waters Aids in Identifying Individual Proteins Using Nanopores Using supercomputers across the nation, including NCSA Blue Waters, researchers used nanopores to identify proteins with single amino acid resolution. December 10, 2021
In the News NCSA AI and Industry Team at 2021 ML4I Forum NCSA’s Seid Koric, Brendan McGinty, and Shirui Luo participated in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Machine Learning for Industry Forum in August. September 21, 2021
In the News Back-to-School Tech for Families in One Illinois School District NCSA’s Community Data Clinic helps provide laptops and internet access. September 7, 2021
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
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