Honors and Awards NCSA Wins Multiple Awards During SC20 NCSA and our partner institutions were honored to take home awards during the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC20), spanning from Agriculture to Visualization and many domains in between. November 24, 2020
Research NCSA Contributes to Mobileshield COVID Testing Lab NCSA experts help to automate lab processes to make COVID-19 saliva testing more efficient and mobile November 19, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA Receives Honors in 2020 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards The biannual awards recognize achievements by users of high-performance computing technologies. November 17, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA Receives Honors in 2020 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards 17th annual HPCwire Awards presented to leaders in the global HPC community. November 16, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA Wins DOE INCITE Award for Physics-Inspired AI Project An NCSA-led team receives 145,000 node hours on Summit to create AI tools that enable data-driven discovery in multi-messenger astrophysics. November 16, 2020
Announcements NCSA Awards 16 Fiddler Innovation Fellowships to Illinois Students and Faculty Interdisciplinary research projects that create innovative solutions for real-world challenges rewarded during the virtual award ceremony. November 11, 2020
Science Features NCSA Contributes to Development of Safer Illinois App Multiple NCSA staff members joined a campuswide collaboration to create the Safer Illinois app, that allows students and faculty to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. October 20, 2020
Research NCSA’s Blue Waters Helps NASA Conduct Groundbreaking Tree Mapping Study and Carbon Research Machine learning lets researchers map 1.8 billion trees across an area of more than 500,000 square miles. October 19, 2020
Honors and Awards William “Bill” Gropp Voted IEEE Computer Society President The president oversees IEEE Computer Society programs and operations and is a nonvoting member of most IEEE Computer Society program boards and committees. October 14, 2020
Announcements Comments Sought on Scientific Data Security Concerns and Practices Webinar Oct. 7 at noon CDT to discuss recommendations. October 2, 2020
Announcements NCSA Houses New DOE-funded Center Led by Illinois Aerospace Engineering DOE awards $16.5M to NCSA and AE to develop Center for Exascale-Enabled Scramjet Design at UIUC. October 1, 2020
Research Deep Learning Model Opens Doors for Innovation in Complex Materials Design A diverse NCSA research team, which includes an Illinois MechSE undergraduate, uses AI and HPC to train a model capable of deploying metamaterial design with topology optimization on laptops that produce accurate and rapid results. September 29, 2020
Announcements NCSA Releases Latest Blue Waters Project Annual Report Dive into the groundbreaking research being done on Blue Waters, from astrophysics to biology. September 15, 2020
Announcements NCSA and U of I Announce New Center for Astrophysical Surveys NCSA and Illinois’ new Center for AstroPhysical Surveys aims to advance survey science and increase our understanding of the Universe. September 8, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA’s Donna J. Cox Honored With Rare IPS Technology Innovation Award This is just the eighth time since the society’s founding in 1958 that this honor has been bestowed. September 4, 2020
Announcements NCSA Supports IGB’s New NSF-funded Molecule Maker Lab Institute to Accelerate AI Research NCSA’s Software Associate Director Kenton McHenry collaborates and shares expertise with MMLI team to advance molecular science. September 4, 2020