Honors and Awards NFI, NCSA Win Second Place in AI Competition for Critical Mineral Assessment A team of researchers from NFI, NCSA and CAII were awarded second place for their solution in the Map Feature Extraction challenge, co-sponsored by USGS and DARPA. December 21, 2022
Honors and Awards NCSA Industry Partners Receive Honors in 2022 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards NCSA was recognized by Hyperion Research for its achievements in a collaborative project with Rolls-Royce and other industry partners. December 19, 2022
Announcements Newly Formed IASC Connects Worldwide Supercomputing Centers Together with co-founding institution NCSA, IASC hopes to unite nearly 100 publicly funded worldwide supercomputing centers. December 16, 2022
Announcements NCSA Upgrades Taiga Speed, Capacity for First Time The Center-wide file system nearly doubles its usable space and achieves a maximum throughput of 110 gigabytes per second. December 14, 2022
Honors and Awards NCSA Director Leads IEEE Awards Ceremony at SC22 IEEE Computer Society President Bill Gropp presided over the awards presentation for three awards at the 2022 Supercomputing Conference. December 12, 2022
Science Features Undergraduate Students Excel in NCSA Summer Programs SPIN interns and participants of a 10-week research experience in machine learning at NCSA were recognized for their outstanding research contributions at the end of the summer. December 9, 2022
Honors and Awards NCSA Student Researchers Lead Authors on Award-Winning Paper Paper on FAIR principles for AI models wins HPCwire Readers’ Choice award for “Best Use of High Performance Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence.” December 7, 2022
Science Features When Technology and Art Unite NCSA Affiliate and UIUC Dance Professor John Toenjes brings dance into the digital age using gamification and mobile apps. December 5, 2022
Profiles Innovators Bridging Research and Software Engineering Over the past 10 years, the field of Research Software Engineering has emerged at the intersection of software development and research. We spoke with NCSA Research Software Engineers to learn more about their experience and the advice they have for those interested in this career path. December 2, 2022
Honors and Awards NCSA Affiliate Halil Kilicoglu Awarded NIH Grant to Improve Randomized Clinical Trials We see the results of randomized clinical trials every day, but how these trials are designed is as essential as the outcome. November 29, 2022
Funding New Grants Allow Parsl Project to Enter Its Next Stage Parsl, software designed to help simplify supercomputing, will now focus on community outreach and sustainability. November 23, 2022
Funding Cybershuttle Project to Create Seamless System to Share Data, Tools NCSA was awarded part of a five-year, $5 million NSF collaborative award to advance the Cybershuttle project. November 18, 2022
Honors and Awards NCSA Receives Honors in 2022 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards NCSA takes top honors in three different award categories announced at Supercomputing Conference 2022. November 15, 2022
Honors and Awards Seven Future Stars Awarded Fellowships Introducing the 2022-23 CAPS Fellows – seven new scientists with accomplishments from working on the James Webb telescope project to studying black holes. November 11, 2022
Announcements Applications for 2023-24 New Frontiers Graduate Fellowships Open NFI is seeking applications for its graduate fellowship program for next year. November 9, 2022
Honors and Awards NCSA Awards 24 Fiddler Innovation Fellowships to Illinois Students, Faculty Students and faculty of three NCSA programs were recognized for their outstanding work and contributions to computational research in a variety of fields. November 7, 2022