Announcements NCSA Introduces a New Way to Manage Data Taiga system offers more affordable, seamless moving and storage. October 27, 2021
Science Features NCSA Software Fits Many Research Toolboxes A global leader in open-source software development, NCSA ramps up its software directorate to do even more. October 20, 2021
Science Features Radiant Takes on the Cloud NCSA’s Radiant system helps researchers manage data through the cloud, offering significant cost savings. September 3, 2021
Profiles 2021 NCSA Summer Internships Provide Valuable Experiences to Undergraduates International and domestic students participated in various NCSA projects, working alongside experts and mentors to address real-world challenges using advanced digital resources. August 20, 2021
Profiles NCSA Students Pushing Innovation Program Celebrates Success Amid COVID-19 This spring, NCSA’s SPIN program went completely virtual. Despite the circumstances, the program completed a successful virtual session and recognized notable projects, interns and mentors for the 2020-21 academic year. June 15, 2021
Science Features How Do You Train a Supercomputer to Learn? NCSA’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation uses COVID-19 chest x-rays to explore best methods. June 8, 2021
Profiles NCSA Researcher Ben Grosser Is Breaking the Internet Ben Grosser, an NCSA affiliate and University of Illinois professor, is using social media to reveal truth, and art, in the digital world. June 2, 2021
Science Features NCSA Teams Contribute to Return-to-school Planning Leveraging diverse expertise, researchers and designers from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications collaborated with the University of Illinois on two tools to help schools safely transition back to in-person learning. April 26, 2021
Science Features Scientists Monitoring Magnetic ‘Pothole’ in Space Geomagnetic field forecasting models run on NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer identify new variations in the South Atlantic Anomaly. February 3, 2021
Science Features NCSA Contributes to Development of Safer Illinois App Multiple NCSA staff members joined a campuswide collaboration to create the Safer Illinois app, that allows students and faculty to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. October 20, 2020
Research Deep Learning Model Opens Doors for Innovation in Complex Materials Design A diverse NCSA research team, which includes an Illinois MechSE undergraduate, uses AI and HPC to train a model capable of deploying metamaterial design with topology optimization on laptops that produce accurate and rapid results. September 29, 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
Science Features NCSA’s CSND Provides Vital Services Amid COVID-19 Pandemic As everyone at NCSA and beyond continues to adapt to working from home during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Cybersecurity and Networking Division helps to alleviate stressors and worries with technology. June 2, 2020
Science Features Educating the Next Generation of Supercomputer Users With Blue Waters Tulin Kaman, a researcher at the University of Arkansas, has used the Blue Waters Undergraduate Internship program to offer students hands-on HPC research experience. May 15, 2020
Science Features Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub Collaborates to Bring Data Science Training Across the Region Workshops held by the Midwest Big Data Hub help to improve data skills across a variety of midwestern states. May 5, 2020