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.
Tag: Integrated Cyberinfrastructure
NCSA’s Blue Waters project provides $1.08 billion direct return to Illinois’ economy
Editor’s note: The original version of this article had inaccurate funding information related to the construction of the National Petascale Computing Facility. It has been corrected. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign released a study Wednesday detailing the current and projected economic impact of its Blue Waters project on Illinois’ economy. […]
Playing the Supercomputer Game
When Sony later released the Linux Kit for the PS2, interest in the machines spread beyond the gaming community to a seemingly unlikely place: the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
NCSA Hits One Million CPU Hours in a Month
August 1999 marked the first time usage of a National Science Foundation high-performance computer topped one million normalized CPU hours in one month.