Profiles Two Students from the University of Queensland Take on Research Internships at NCSA For eight weeks this winter, two students from the University of Queensland in Australia gained hands-on at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) as research interns. March 20, 2020
Funding NIST-funded Collaboration Featuring NCSA Renewed for $20 Million The Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, hosted at Colorado State University, has been granted a five-year extension from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). March 2, 2020
Announcements NCSA Allocates Over 21 Million Node Hours in New Blue Waters Supercomputer Awards Over $13 million worth of allocations in Blue Waters supercomputer awards have been given to researchers and faculty at Illinois studying a diversity of topics. February 28, 2020
Research 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. February 25, 2020
Announcements NCSA Collaborates to Launch Knowledge Engine for Genomics The platform, developed as part of NIH’s Big Data to Knowledge Center of Excellence, will help to advance genomics research. February 2, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA Faculty Affiliate Receives Fulbright Specialist Grant Anita Chan, a Fiddler Innovation Faculty Fellow at NCSA and a professor in Information Sciences and Media and Cinema Studies, will receive a prestigious Fulbright Specialist grant. January 30, 2020
Announcements NCSA Helps Launch IN-CORE Platform to Model Community Resilience and Natural Hazards IN-CORE, a software platform developed by the NIST-funded Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, will help researchers model both natural hazard impacts on communities and the resilience of those communitie January 28, 2020
Funding Blue Waters Professor Awarded $3.3 Million for DOE Project Kaiyu Guan, a Blue Waters professor at NCSA, and his research team have been awarded a grant to measure carbon emissions in bioenergy crops. January 23, 2020
Science Features 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. December 12, 2019
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