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
Research A New Way of Designing Global Satellite Missions A Cornell University researcher taps work he did using NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer to fix a problem that’s puzzled researchers for nearly 40 years. June 26, 2020
Profiles NCSA Gravity Group Interns Build Strong Foundation for Their Futures Four NCSA Gravity Group interns share bright plans for their futures post graduation. May 21, 2020
Profiles NCSA SPIN Program Works Toward Closing the Stem Gap This program aims to create an inclusive and collaborative environment by pairing interns with field experts to enhance tech skills, and in turn, contribute to diversification of STEM fields. May 19, 2020
Science Features Educating the Next Generation of Supercomputer Users With Blue Waters Tulin Kaman, a researcher at the University of Arkansas, has used the Blue Waters Undergraduate Internship program to offer students hands-on HPC research experience. May 15, 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 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
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
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 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