Funding C3.ai DTI Awards $5.4 Million for AI Research to Mitigate COVID-19 The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute awards funding to 26 projects for research about COVID-19 and its impact on racial, economic, and healthcare disparities. June 26, 2020
Announcements NCSA and SMU Announce New Strategic Partnership NCSA and SMU form partnership to promote advanced research computing. June 22, 2020
Announcements NCSA Welcomes 2020-21 Faculty Fellows The NCSA Faculty Fellowship is a competitive program for faculty and researchers at the University of Illinois which provides seed funding for new collaborations that include NCSA staff as integral contributors to the project. June 19, 2020
Announcements NSF Awards NCSA $10 Million for Deployment of Delta NCSA takes an active role in expanding the adoption of GPU-based computing and continues to be at the forefront of advanced research computing. June 3, 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
Announcements NCSA and Compute Ontario Announce Partnership to Promote Advanced Research Computing NCSA forms international partnership with Compute Ontario to leverage supercomputing assets and achieve common goals. May 27, 2020
Profiles NCSA Gravity Group Interns Build Strong Foundation for Their Futures Four NCSA Gravity Group interns share bright plans for their futures post graduation. May 21, 2020
Profiles NCSA SPIN Program Works Toward Closing the Stem Gap This program aims to create an inclusive and collaborative environment by pairing interns with field experts to enhance tech skills, and in turn, contribute to diversification of STEM fields. May 19, 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
Funding NSF Awards NCSA Over $480,000 for the Development of Funcx This new “function-as-a-service” (FaaS) platform is hosted on the cloud and will enable researchers to build applications from functions that they can easily distribute across a variety of academic and commercial computing resources. May 14, 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
Funding C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute Funds Projects Three newly funded projects from the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute will enable researchers to 1) model the spread of COVID-19 for intervention policies, 2) model homelessness caused by the shutdown and target aid for at-risk communities, and 3) develop machine intelligence methods to aid in the interrogation of medical images from COVID-19 patients. April 29, 2020
Funding NSF Awards Over $680,000 to NCSA to Lead Development of the Einstein Toolkit The Einstein Toolkit ecosystem: Enabling fundamental research in the era of multi-messenger astrophysics. April 22, 2020
Announcements NCSA’s Stuart Levy Wins Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence Award Levy, a Senior Research Programmer in NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Lab, received a campuswide honor for his decades of service and groundbreaking work in the realm of scientific visualization. April 17, 2020
Announcements NCSA Announces 2020 Recipient of Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Ananya Cleetus receives NCSA’s eDream Institute’s Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Award at the Illinois Innovation Prize virtual ceremony. April 6, 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