Announcements NCSA Welcomes 2021-22 Faculty Fellows The NCSA Faculty Fellowship program awarded 15 University of Illinois faculty funding for 10 interdisciplinary research projects involving our center. July 21, 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
Announcements C3.ai DTI Announces Call for Papers to Advance AI for Energy and Climate Security Funded proposals will receive up to $5M and include unlimited free access to the C3 AI Suite hosted on the Microsoft Azure Cloud. February 2, 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 NSF and NIFA Awards CDA $20M to Develop New AIFARMS Institute UIUC Center for Digital Agriculture wins $20M award from National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program to accelerate AI research and agricultural Innovation through new AIFARMS Institute. August 26, 2020
Announcements Center for Digital Agriculture Announces 12 Seed Funding Recipients The funded projects will span nearly every facet of digital agriculture, from crop sciences to deep learning. August 20, 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
Announcements NCSA Welcomes 2020-21 Faculty Fellows The NCSA Faculty Fellowship is a competitive program for faculty and researchers at the University of Illinois which provides seed funding for new collaborations that include NCSA staff as integral contributors to the project. June 19, 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
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 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
Research Hunt for the Supertwister Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign collaborated with visualization experts at NCSA in an effort to shed light on how the most violent tornadoes form and to create animations that reveal the inner behavior of tornado producing storms. November 8, 2004