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
Category: Science Features
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.
NCSA Engineers Travel to Chilean Base Data Center and Summit for LSST Project
Over this past summer, four NCSA engineers travelled to Chile for the ongoing work involved with the LSST project.
Collaboration Creates New Way for Farmers to Estimate Commodity Payments
An online calculator developed at the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications for farmdoc helps farmers estimate payments from 2018 Farm Bill.
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
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
‘History Was Here’: NCSA’s Technology is Helping Unlock the Mystery of Medieval Graffiti
NCSA is helping scholars reach back in time to understand medieval history through graffiti.
A Direct Bridge
An algorithm developed by University of Arkansas engineers aids both computational scientists and experimentalists exploring the atomic scale structure of materials.
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.
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.