Profiles NCSA Student Spotlight: Arjun Gupta NCSA Student Arjun Gupta used the insights he gained from astrophysics research to peer inside the human heart. December 10, 2019
Honors and Awards NCSA and Partners Win Hpcwire Editors’ Choice Award for Earthdem Collaboration NCSA has been awarded the Best Academic/Government collaboration award for EarthDEM, a collaboration with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency that seeks to create digital elevation models of the entire Earth. November 20, 2019
Announcements NCSA Launches Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation Combining research, educational opportunities and integration with private industry to spur continued AI Innovation at Illinois. November 13, 2019
Announcements 15 Students and Five Faculty from Illinois Receive Ncsa’s Fiddler Innovation Fellowship NCSA’s Fiddler Innovation Fellowship has been awarded to twelve underclassmen at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for their research, spanning everything from neural networks to bionanotechnology. October 30, 2019
Funding NCSA Collaborations Awarded Over $6.1 Million to Accelerate Data-Intensive Science Three National Science Foundation grants were recently awarded to NCSA to help build the rapidly-emerging field of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics. October 24, 2019
Funding NCSA’s Clowder to be Leveraged in $3 Million Effort to Support Permafrost Data Analytics Scientists from across the United States collaborate on the Permafrost Discover Gateway, an NSF-funded project to support our understanding of changing permafrost conditions. October 23, 2019
Announcements Blue Waters Announces Four Webinars for October and November NCSA has announced four new Blue Waters Webinars taking place over the next two months. October 10, 2019
Announcements University of Illinois Announces Center for Digital Agriculture The new center will combine campus’ areas of expertise in engineering and agriculture to cement Illinois’ position as an innovator in this emerging field of agricultural technology, and develop solutions to agricultural problems that use digital technology. October 8, 2019
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
Announcements NCSA’s nanoMFG Node Names Elif Ertekin Director Elif Ertekin, associate professor of mechanical science and engineering at the University of Illinois, selected as Director of nanoMFG Node, headquartered at NCSA at the University of Illinois. October 1, 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
Funding Trusted CI Collaboration Receives $12.5 Million Renewal Grant from NSF Newly-awarded five-year funding ensures continued cybersecurity support of NSF research September 19, 2019
Science Features 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. September 18, 2019
Announcements NCSA Partners to Create NSF-Funded FABRIC Platform NCSA partners in establishing FABRIC, a testbed for reimagining how data can be stored, computed and moved. September 17, 2019
Announcements 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 August 2, 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