Announcements Illinois Computes Providing Free Access To Illinois Campus Cluster A portion of the ICC will be completely funded by Illinois Computes, allowing campus researchers access at no cost. August 22, 2023
Science Features NCSA’s SMM Software Tools Aim to Make Sense of Social Media Data A software team bridges the gap between easy – but expensive – analytics tools and more technical open-source tools August 17, 2023
Profiles Undergraduate Researchers in Action Through NCSA’s expansive REU program, students get hands-on experience working on projects to solve current real-world problems. August 9, 2023
Funding NCSA Joins New Phase of Climate Project to Track Arctic Permafrost Thaw Led by the Woodwell Climate Research Center, the $5 million grant from Google.org will fund the expansion of a new, open-access resource that will use satellite data and AI/ML technology to track Arctic permafrost thaw more efficiently. July 19, 2023
Thought Leadership NCSA’s Bill Gropp Digs into MPI – Past, Present, and Future A comprehensive look at Gropp’s presentation at Dell Technologies HPC Community Events. May 26, 2023
Research Study Shows the Benefits of Winter Cover Crops At the intersection of agriculture and engineering, important advancements are being made in sustainable agriculture. May 1, 2023
Research Security made simple with NCSA’s CILogon A tool developed by NCSA’s CI Security Research Group has made logging in to accounts across platforms simple and secure for more than 10 years. March 22, 2023
Thought Leadership NCSA Director Bill Gropp on the ‘State of Supercomputing at NCSA’ The Download: A Thought Leadership Series March 6, 2023
Thought Leadership Improving Research Through Software Sustainability NCSA’s chief scientist, Daniel Katz, shares his vision for software sustainability and researcher engagement with NIH January 31, 2023
In the News NCSA 2022 Year-end Highlights A recap of the top NCSA stories that spoke to readers the most in 2022. December 27, 2022
Profiles Innovators Bridging Research and Software Engineering Over the past 10 years, the field of Research Software Engineering has emerged at the intersection of software development and research. We spoke with NCSA Research Software Engineers to learn more about their experience and the advice they have for those interested in this career path. December 2, 2022
Honors and Awards NCSA Affiliate Halil Kilicoglu Awarded NIH Grant to Improve Randomized Clinical Trials We see the results of randomized clinical trials every day, but how these trials are designed is as essential as the outcome. November 29, 2022
Funding New Grants Allow Parsl Project to Enter Its Next Stage Parsl, software designed to help simplify supercomputing, will now focus on community outreach and sustainability. November 23, 2022
Funding Cybershuttle Project to Create Seamless System to Share Data, Tools NCSA was awarded part of a five-year, $5 million NSF collaborative award to advance the Cybershuttle project. November 18, 2022
Publications Greg Bauer presents at Gateways 2022 NCSA’s own Greg Bauer knows that building and supporting a supercomputer is only part of the work. Getting the word out is just as essential. October 28, 2022
Announcements NCSA Leaders Share Their Vision for Future of Computational Research Director Bill Gropp and Chief Scientist Daniel S. Katz offered their expertise on DEI in the supercomputing community and software sustainability at multiple conferences around the world. October 13, 2022