Honors and Awards NCSA Receives Honors in 2021 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards Eleventh Year NCSA is Recognized by HPCwire Awards, Given to Leaders in the Global High-Performance Computing Community. November 15, 2021
Profiles The Donna Cox Legacy: Inspiring and Visualizing the Future NCSA celebrates and honors its Chief Scholar and Illinois Professor Donna J. Cox as she retires after nearly four outstanding decades of contributions to art, science, research, technology, and society. July 30, 2021
Announcements NCSA Awards 20 Fiddler Innovation Fellowships to Illinois Students and Faculty NCSA’s eDream Institute awarded Illinois students and faculty for innovative multidisciplinary research projects in 2021. Fellows were honored in a virtual awards ceremony. December 3, 2021
Science Features NCSA Blue Waters and Advanced Visualization Lab Co-Produces Award-Winning Documentary “Atlas of a Changing Earth” Using collaboration, satellite imagery, supercomputers, and advanced visualization, ACE sheds light on the effects of rising global temperatures to help guide and inform possible solutions. December 1, 2021
Announcements NCSA’s Blue Waters Supercomputer Helps Map the Earth A small project to track melting in one section of polar ice is now mapping the entire Earth. November 17, 2021
Honors and Awards NCSA Receives Honors in 2021 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards Eleventh Year NCSA is Recognized by HPCwire Awards, Given to Leaders in the Global High-Performance Computing Community. November 15, 2021
Announcements Volodymyr Kindratenko Named Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at NCSA Dr. Kindratenko, an NCSA veteran, brings decades of institutional knowledge, teaching, research and computing experience to the director role. October 28, 2021
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
Announcements NCSA Researcher Contribute to USDA-Funded Agrivoltaics Project Illinois researchers across disciplines have received $10 million to research agrivoltaic systems October 11, 2021
Announcements Daniel S. Katz Elected to IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors NCSA Chief Scientist will join the Board of Governors for the IEEE’s Computer Society. October 5, 2021
Announcements NCSA Contributes to $4.4 Million Astronomy Cyberinfrastructure Project The NSF-funded project, called MUSES, will help to build an open-source cyberinfrastructure that can be used to generate Equations of State for astronomical research. October 1, 2021
Publications Marginal Land for Growing Bioenergy Crops Less Than Estimated NCSA’s Blue Waters aids researchers in estimating marginal land available for bioenergy production. September 23, 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
Announcements CDA Collaborates to Launch $25 Million CROPPS Initiative The multidisciplinary, National Science Foundation-funded collaboration aims to understand the communication of plants. September 9, 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
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
Announcements Researchers Selected for Delta External Advisory Committee Group will help guide project’s growth and development August 30, 2021