Science Features Visualizing the Future Our Advanced Visualization Lab showcases its hard work and expertise in visualization and computer graphics at SIGGRAPH 2022 in Vancouver. August 19, 2022
Profiles A 32-year Superstar in Cyberinfrastructure Retires Michelle Butler played critical roles in Mosaic and other NCSA milestones. May 3, 2022
In the News NCSA Helps NASA Develop Visualization Prototype for Earth Data NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Lab worked with researchers and scientists to make Earth data more accessible and easier to process. February 22, 2022
Profiles NCSA Reflects on 35 Years as a Supercomputing Powerhouse Witnessing the rise of supercomputing over the years, NCSA leaders share milestones and fond memories in this retrospective feature. February 2, 2022
Announcements Historic Blue Waters Supercomputer Ceasing Operations NCSA and UIUC made history with the Blue Waters computing system. Now, after nearly 10 years, that system is coming to an end. December 17, 2021
Science Features NCSA Blue Waters and Advanced Visualization Lab Co-Produces Award-Winning Documentary “Atlas of a Changing Earth” Using collaboration, satellite imagery, supercomputers, and advanced visualization, ACE sheds light on the effects of rising global temperatures to help guide and inform possible solutions. December 1, 2021
Announcements NCSA’s Blue Waters Supercomputer Helps Map the Earth A small project to track melting in one section of polar ice is now mapping the entire Earth. November 17, 2021
Publications Marginal Land for Growing Bioenergy Crops Less Than Estimated NCSA’s Blue Waters aids researchers in estimating marginal land available for bioenergy production. September 23, 2021
Announcements C3.ai DTI Announces AI for Energy and Climate Security Awards The consortium awarded $4.4M in funding and advanced computing resources to 21 projects at partner institutions. June 10, 2021
Science Features Scientists Monitoring Magnetic ‘Pothole’ in Space Geomagnetic field forecasting models run on NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer identify new variations in the South Atlantic Anomaly. February 3, 2021
Announcements Applications Open for New Frontiers Initiative Graduate Research Fellowships The fellowship will provide PhD students with a year of full-time research support, including a $38,000 stipend, up to $12,000 in tuition allowance, and an allocation up to 100,000 node-hours on the powerful Blue Waters petascale computing system. February 3, 2021
Announcements Dark Energy Survey Makes Public Catalog of Nearly 700 Million Astronomical Objects The international collaboration that includes NCSA, releases a massive, public collection of astronomical data and calibrated images from six years of surveys. This data release is one of the largest astronomical catalogs issued to date. January 14, 2021
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
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
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
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