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
Announcements NCSA Joins Nationwide Collaboration to Combat COVID-19 The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, which spans multiple research institutions and private companies, seeks to apply computational resources and artificial intelligence to initially study COVID-19 and ways to curb its spread. March 26, 2020
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