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
Research Understanding Earth’s Geomagnetism with Blue Waters Dr. Weijia Kuang from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is using Blue Waters to gain insights into the inner reaches of the Earth September 25, 2019
Announcements NCSA Collaborates with NGA to Create the World’s Most Powerful Geospatial System The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced a new collaboration between the Blue Waters Project, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the University of Minnesota and The Ohio State University to produce digital elevation models (DEM) of the entire Earth August 2, 2019
Announcements New Broadening Participation Allocations Now Available on Blue Waters Supercomputer—Apply by March 1 This new category is open to faculty and research staff at U.S. academic institutions who have not previously been a PI on a research allocation on the Blue Waters system. February 7, 2018