Announcements NCSA Releases Latest Blue Waters Project Annual Report Dive into the groundbreaking research being done on Blue Waters, from astrophysics to biology. September 15, 2020
Research NCSA Researchers Use XSEDE to Accelerate Star Merger Simulations A team from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) used artificial intelligence on XSEDE systems to obtain a correction factor for merger simulations. June 30, 2020
Research A New Way of Designing Global Satellite Missions A Cornell University researcher taps work he did using NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer to fix a problem that’s puzzled researchers for nearly 40 years. June 26, 2020
Research Using Supercomputers to Understand Aviation Turbulence Katelyn Barbaraer, a former Blue Waters Graduate Fellow from the University of North Dakota, is using supercomputers to help the aviation industry better evaluate turbulence March 31, 2020
Research Blue Waters Aids Researchers in Breakthrough Flu Simulations Rommie Amaro, a Blue Waters researcher from UC-San Diego, has used Blue Waters to simulate movement in the viral envelope of the flu virus. February 25, 2020
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
Research Understanding Earth’s Geomagnetism with Blue Waters Dr. Weijia Kuang from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is using Blue Waters to gain insights into the inner reaches of the Earth September 25, 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
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
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
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