Science Features NCSA Teams Contribute to Return-to-school Planning Leveraging diverse expertise, researchers and designers from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications collaborated with the University of Illinois on two tools to help schools safely transition back to in-person learning. April 26, 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
Research NCSA Researchers Identify Biomarkers to Accelerate Liver Toxicity Testing in New Products More rapid and accurate testing methods could lead to safer products on the market. December 18, 2020
Research Deep Learning Model Opens Doors for Innovation in Complex Materials Design A diverse NCSA research team, which includes an Illinois MechSE undergraduate, uses AI and HPC to train a model capable of deploying metamaterial design with topology optimization on laptops that produce accurate and rapid results. September 29, 2020
Research NCSA Researchers Use XSEDE to Accelerate Star Merger Simulations A team from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) used artificial intelligence on XSEDE systems to obtain a correction factor for merger simulations. June 30, 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
Funding C3.ai DTI Awards $5.4 Million for AI Research to Mitigate COVID-19 The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute awards funding to 26 projects for research about COVID-19 and its impact on racial, economic, and healthcare disparities. June 26, 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
Research NCSA Researcher Simulates Entire Life Form A recent simulation of the satellite tobacco mosaic virus is a striking first. There’s never been a computer simulation of an entire life form in atomic detail. Until now. March 10, 2006
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