NCSA in the News--Deprecated
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3/5/2012
UI-7 takes a look at the first hardware to be installed as part of Blue Waters, and how this supercomputer will propel research.
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2/27/2012
The startling deep space images Terrence Malick's Oscar-nominated drama “The Tree of Life” came from billions of numbers crunched into images at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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2/24/2012
The BBC describes how Illinois researcher Stephen Long, with help from NCSA supercomputers, simulated photosynthesis in a quest to build better, more productive plants.
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2/21/2012
As installation of the Blue Waters supercomputer proceeds, Illinois Chancellor Phyllis Wise highlights the tremendous computing power it will bring to the campus. Seven percent of its capacity--900 teraflops--is available exclusively for campus use. By the fall, a campus-wide committee will be in place to review and make recommendations on proposals for the use of Blue Waters.
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2/2/2012
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1/24/2012
Marc Snir’s role as a co-PI for the Blue Waters combined with his role as a one of the co-founders and a co-chair for the Graph 500 guarantee that he will be a person of interest to follow this year.
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1/18/2012
Exploring what Cornell's Neil Ashcroft calls the "utterly fundamental" transition from insulating to conducting matter, the researchers have combined high-powered computing and "chemical intuition" to discover new phases of water -- specifically, ice at extremely high pressures nonexistent on Earth but probably abundant elsewhere in the solar system.
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1/5/2012
Supercomputers are powerful tools, but the next-generation of scientists and engineers must be trained to use them. NCSA Director Thom Dunning comments on education and training efforts in this Daily Beast article.
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11/30/2011
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11/30/2011
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11/15/2011
The University of Illinois says Seattle-based Cray Inc. will take over construction of the Blue Waters supercomputer project, three months after IBM pulled out citing cost and technical concerns.
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11/15/2011
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has finalized a contract with Cray Inc., to provide the supercomputer for the National Science Foundation's Blue Waters project. This new Cray supercomputer will support significant research advances in a broad range of science and engineering domains, meeting the needs of the most compute-intensive, memory-intensive, and data-intensive applications. Blue Waters is expected to deliver sustained performance, on average, of more than one petaflops on a set of benchmark codes that represent those applications and domains.
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11/3/2011
PopSci took a look at an average day in the life of NCSA's 22-teraflop iForge computing system. Rolls Royce, one of NCSA's Private Sector Parterns, uses iForge to model complex fluid flow though aircraft engine designs, simulations that will help Rolls Royce design more powerful and more efficient engines.
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10/18/2011
“The Great Flood,” a 75-minute multimedia work of original music and film inspired by the 1927 Mississippi River floods that features data data-driven visualizations created by members of NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory and eDream, is going on the road.
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10/13/2011
Merle Giles, head of NCSA's Private Sector Program, says that for engineering applications, software issues may be more vital to overcome than simply adding more and more cores.
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10/12/2011
ASG Software Solutions, a leader in IT infrastructure, content management, and cloud computing software solutions for global enterprises, has acquired RiverGlass, a leading provider of eDiscovery, advanced information collection, data management and analysis solutions. RiverGlass, based in Champaign, Illinois, formed in 2003 to commercialize research developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
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9/28/2011
MarketMaker (www.foodmarketmaker.com) is an online marketing resource created by a University of Illinois team that has grown to include almost 20 states.
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9/8/2011International Science Grid This Week writer International Science Grid This Week by International Science Grid This Week published by International Science Grid This Week
Using computing resources at NCSA, researchers Aimée Tomlinson at North Georgia College & State University and Malika Jeffries-EL at Iowa State University are working with undergraduate chemistry students to study organic materials that could function as solar cells.
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9/1/2011
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8/12/2011
Energy science researchers study how to process petroleum and other conventional fuels – and how to develop new ones, such as biofuels. They also investigate the properties of fuels, the chemical reactions involved in combustion and the devices in which combustion occurs. “All of this takes tremendous computing resources,” says Thom H. Dunning Jr., director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and distinguished chair for research excellence in chemistry at the University of Illinois. “But we are tackling these problems with more and more fidelity.”
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8/1/2011
WILL's Jeff Bossert discusses the new Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) with project leader John Towns from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
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7/29/2011
John Towns describes how the new Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) will build on and differ from the TeraGrid.
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7/26/2011
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7/19/2011
Brad Sheafe, NCSA chief security officer, discusses cybersecurity with WILL radio (begins at 1:38).
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7/18/2011
Formerly known as the Power7 IH node, the IBM Power 775 is not a general-purpose server node, but rather an ultra-dense, water-cooled rack server that pushes density and network bandwidth to extremes.
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6/24/2011
In this interview fro SIGGRAPH 2010, Donna Cox, director of NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory, discusses the role of scientific visualization and its power to stir people's emotions.
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6/23/2011
Donna Cox, director of NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory, discusses her team's visualization work for the Terrence Malick film "Tree of Life" with WILL's Celeste Quinn.
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6/22/2011
NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory created accurate data-driven renderings of planets, stars, nebulae, and galaxies for the new "Deep Space Advenure" at Chicago's Adler Planetarium.
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6/20/2011
NCSA's Innovative Systems Lab has ported a couple of science codes to Intel's Knights Ferry -- one a benchmark code, the other a full astronomy application. The benchmark code was used get familar with the software development process, while the astronomy code was a proof-of-concept test for a full application port. According to Mike Showerman, the Technical Program Manager at ISL, the application code was already written with accelerators in mind, so the initial port was relatively straightforward. Much of effort (which is still ongoing) involves tuning the code to optimize MIC vectorization. The current Intel compiler performs some MIC auto-vectorization for MIC, but support for the coprocessor not fully baked yet. In fact, most of the components of the MIC software stack are in the "alpha" stage at this point.
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6/20/2011
The new show at the Adler Planetarium will be one of the most data-intensive ever produced, featuring digital images captured by spacecraft and space-based telescopes as well as data-driven visualizations created by NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory.
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5/26/2011
CNN used a data-driven scientific visualization from NCSA to help explain how tornadoes form.
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5/13/2011
The first international effort to bring climate simulation software onto the next-generation exascale platforms got under way earlier this spring. The project, named Enabling Climate Simulation (ECS) at Extreme Scale, came out of the ongoing collaboration of University of Illinois and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) though their Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing and takes advantage of the support of NCSA, which will provide access to the upcoming multi-petaflop Blue Waters system.
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5/2/2011
While visiting Urbana-Champaign, technology writer Wendy Grossman stopped by NCSA to learn more about the Blue Waters project, how NCSA helps scientists gain insight from huge floods of data, and more.
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4/25/2011
On April 5, the World Meteorological Organization announced that the stratospheric ozone in the Arctic had suffered an unprecedented drop over the winter and early spring, causing a large area of very thin ozone much like the annual ozone hole that forms in the Antarctic. Illinois atmospheric scientist Don Wuebbles, who leads a PRAC project preparing to use the Blue Waters supercomputer, explains the processes behind ozone depletion and the implications of the record low levels.
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4/22/2011
Eighteen years ago, the award-winning Web browser Mosaic 1.0 was released by the University’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
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4/12/2011
Former NCSA Faculty Fellow Ann Hedeman is one of 180 recipients this year of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Hedeman specializes in medieval manuscripts and the history of books, focusing on the role of visual imagery, or “illuminations,” in translating past or distant cultures for 15th century French readers.
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4/4/2011
NCSA Director Thom Dunning says the Top500 list is not the metric by which the Blue Waters supercomputer will be judged. Instead, he focuses on how productive the machine will be for researchers.
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3/22/2011
A new visualisation created by Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois shows the dramatic evolution of hurricane Katrina, the storm that wreaked havoc along the east coast of the US in August 2005. It's based on a complex numerical model developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
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3/2/2011
In this audio interview, Thom Dunning looks back over the past 25 years of NCSA's history and talks about what is to come.
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2/28/2011
Later this month at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Anaheim, California, NCSA Director Thom Dunning will receive the ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research. Since 1984, this award has annually recognized outstanding individual achievement for the use of computers in education, product development, or research in the chemical and biological sciences.
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2/14/2011
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1/27/2011
In 2010, the University received $185 million in grants from the National Science Foundation, more money than any other university in the nation. One of the main reasons for Illinois' top spot is the Blue Waters supercomputer project.
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1/26/2011
A new measurement of the muon lifetime provides a high-accuracy value for a crucial parameter determining the strength of weak nuclear force. The experiments were performed by an international research team at the accelerator facility of the Paul Scherrer Institute and will be published in the journal Physical Review Letters.The repeated experiements generated more than 100 terabytes of data, which was stores for later analysis at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
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1/21/2011
Tapping the supercomputing power at its disposal at the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications (the mythical birthplace of HAL 9000), the Advanced Visualization Laboratory can make sense of massive data sets that others cannot, making it among the best in the world at turning complex data into science-driven cinematic art.
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1/4/2011
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12/16/2010
John Towns, leader of NCSA's Persistent Infrastructure Directorate, discusses scientific data sharing -- benefits, problems, and how data sharing should be organized.
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12/16/2010
The Innovative Systems Laboratory has released a free CUDA wrapper library and CUDA memory tester to aid GPU software development.
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12/8/2010
Green500 founder Wu Feng invited Craig Steffen of NCSA to talk about the methodology used to measure their Green500 entry, called EcoG.
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12/2/2010
The "Astronomic!" exhibit at the Intermedia gallery of the Krannert Art Museum highlights the history and artistry of imaging the universe. In this video, guest curator Hank Kaczmarksi, director of the Illinois Simulator Laboratory of the Beckman Institute, gives a personal tour of the exhibits paintings, objects, visualizations and virtual reality, including work by NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory (at 10:12). Astronomic! continues through Jan. 9, 2011.
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12/1/2010
Peter Bajcsy, principal investigator for the Digging into Image Data to Answer Authorship-Related Questions project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, discusses how the project is providing tools to automate the visual inspection process for humanities researchers, helping them analyze quilts, maps, and manuscripts.
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12/1/2010
When these kids visited the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the scientists there asked them some really tough questions: What are supercomputers? What do they look like? How fast are they? What do they do?
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11/30/2010
It's the most energy-efficient, self-built supercomputer in the world and it's right here in Champaign, Illinois. The NCSA entry finished behind an IBM system and Japan's top supercomputer. Students and professors say it's a huge accomplishment.
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11/20/2010Patrick Thibodeau, ComputerWorld writer Patrick Thibodeau, ComputerWorld by Patrick Thibodeau, ComputerWorld published by Patrick Thibodeau, ComputerWorld
More powerful supercomputers are needed to solve some of mankind's biggest problems and threats. For example, Thomas Jordan, the director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, looks forward to using the Blue Waters supercomputer to better analyze the potential damage from quakes along the San Andreas fault.
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11/19/2010Rich Miller, DataCenterKnowledge writer Rich Miller, DataCenterKnowledge by Rich Miller, DataCenterKnowledge published by Rich Miller, DataCenterKnowledge
A team of University of Illinois students has earned third place in the Green 500 list for energy-efficient supercomputing with a 33 teraflop GPU system that was also dubbed the competition’s "greenest self-built cluster." The Illinois entry finished behind two goliaths -- a prototype system from IBM and Japan’s top supercomputer.
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11/19/2010
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11/18/2010
Construction of the 4-ton Dark Energy Camera is wrapping up next month at Fermilab in Illinois. The Dark Energy Survey hopes to open its $35 million camera for business at its final destination, in the Blanco telescope atop a Chilean mountain, by October 2011. Every night the camera will beam roughly 400 full-sized images, each 1 gigabyte, to a substation in Chile. From there, they'll be forwarded by fiber-optic cable to NCSA for processing.
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11/16/2010Patricia Cohen, The New York Times writer Patricia Cohen, The New York Times by Patricia Cohen, The New York Times published by Patricia Cohen, The New York Times
“The humanities and social sciences are the emerging domains for using high-performance computers,” said NCSA reserach scientist Peter Bajcsy.
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11/15/2010
NCSA, the Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Center for Public Safety and Justice developed a video game, called "The Day the Earth Shook,"to help young people be more aware of and prepared for earthquakes. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency recently debuted the game for fifth-graders at Benton Grade School.
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11/12/2010Christopher Mims, Mims's Bits, MIT Technology Review writer Christopher Mims, Mims's Bits, MIT Technology Review by Christopher Mims, Mims's Bits, MIT Technology Review published by Christopher Mims, Mims's Bits, MIT Technology Review
"To me the major happening over the past few years is that we were able to reach petascale using conventional technology," says Thom Dunning, head of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. "It was an evolution of a technology path we've been on for the past five years. We can't reach exascale with same technology path.
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11/8/2010Christopher Mims, Mim's Bits, MIT Technology Review writer Christopher Mims, Mim's Bits, MIT Technology Review by Christopher Mims, Mim's Bits, MIT Technology Review published by Christopher Mims, Mim's Bits, MIT Technology Review
In an interview with Christopher Mims, NCSA Director Thom Dunning explains the different between peak performance running benchmark code, and the true productivity enabled by strong sustained performance.
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11/8/2010
A team led by Manuela Campanelli, director of the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation at Rochester Institute of Technology, is using computer models to trace electromagnetic signatures back to the impact of merging black holes. Along with Julian Krolik at Johns Hopkins, the team will create a detailed blueprint that will guide other scientists searching for merging black holes using ordinary visible light and existing telescopes. Simulated models of these mergers will also aid the discovery of gravitational waves, proving Einstein's theory of general relativity.
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11/4/2010
In an interview with smartplanet, NCSA's Ian Brooks discusses the INDICATOR biosurveillance program and how it may help catch and address disease outbreaks earlier.
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11/2/2010
China recently announced that it has built the fastest supercomputer in the world -- how does this compare to the Blue Waters supercomputer coming to Illinois?
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11/1/2010
In order to accurately determine how much of a speedup GPUs provide, Illinois researcher Klaus Schulten ran NAMD calculations on NCSA's Lincoln cluster (a hybrid of CPUs and GPUs) both with and without the GPUs. For this particularly complicated simulation—the ribosome's production of a polypeptide and its subsequent threading through the translocation channel of a cell membrane—the researchers achieved about a fourfold speedup with two GPUs and eight CPUs in the cluster.
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11/1/2010CNET writer CNET by CNET published by CNET
NCSA Director Thom Dunning says graphics-processing units will play a major role in the future of supercomputing, as shown by China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer. "What we're seeing is the beginning of something that's going to be happening all over the world."
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10/28/2010
Small and medium businesses (SMBs) weighing the move to high-performance computing face cost and ease-of-use barriers, according to IDC VP Steve Conway, but NCSA and other organizations are helping to ease the transition.
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10/20/2010Technology Review writer Technology Review by Technology Review published by Technology Review
The LSST will take between 1,000 and 2,000 panoramic 3.2-gigapixel images per night, covering its hemisphere of the sky twice weekly. Along with daytime calibration images, this will amount to 20 terabytes of data stored every 24 hours. Once per day, the raw data and metadata will be transmitted nearly 8,000 kilometers to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where it will be re-processed and merged into the archives.
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10/15/2010
The construction of the National Petascale Computing Facility was among the innovative projects honored by the Construction Management Association of America recently.
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10/12/2010
NCSA Director Thom Dunning will give welcoming remarks on the opening day of Imaging Without Boundaries, Oct. 14 at Beckman Institute. “Because computation is really emphasized as a cross-cutting theme at the conference, NCSA is very closely involved,” said electrical and computer engineering professor Stephen Boppart, co-chair of Beckman’s Integrative Imaging research theme. “There’s a lot of synergy with us working together. This campus initiative needs to include NCSA as an important part of it.”
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10/6/2010
NCSA's Advanced Visualization Lab created detailed scenes of astrophysical data for the new digital dome show at the California Academy of Sciences. "Life: A Cosmic Story" debuts Nov. 6 in San Francisco.
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10/4/2010
“If we don’t record Michael Jordan doing a slam dunk today, a hundred years from now, nobody will know how he moved,” says NCSA researcher Peter Bajcsy in a New York Times article about the use of 3D imaging in sports training.
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9/20/2010
Long-time NCSA user Klaus Schulten, leader of the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group at Illinois' Beckman Institute, explains how the Blue Waters supercomputer will help researchers explore the fundamentals of life at the cellular level. Watch his TEDXUIUC from April 2010.
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9/13/2010Jim Nowlan writer Jim Nowlan by Jim Nowlan published by Jim Nowlan
Jim Nowlan, a fellow at the Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs, recently visited NCSA and was blown away by the capabilities Blue Waters will provide to the nation's scientists and engineers.
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9/14/2010
The visualization experts in NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory contributed to 'Life:A Cosmic Story," a new planetarium show debuting Nov. 6 at the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
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9/9/2010Clint Schow, Fuad Doany, Jeffrey Kash in IEEE Spectrum writer Clint Schow, Fuad Doany, Jeffrey Kash in IEEE Spectrum by Clint Schow, Fuad Doany, Jeffrey Kash in IEEE Spectrum published by Clint Schow, Fuad Doany, Jeffrey Kash in IEEE Spectrum
In an article in IEEE Spectrum, IBM describes the novel optical bus that will be part of the Blue Waters supercomputer. "Blue Waters machine is expected to go 10 times as fast [as RoadRunner], using more than 1 million optical interconnects. The number of parallel optical modules inside Blue Waters will be roughly equal to the world's current annual production."
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9/7/2010Timothy Prickett Morgan, The Four Hundred, IT Jungle writer Timothy Prickett Morgan, The Four Hundred, IT Jungle by Timothy Prickett Morgan, The Four Hundred, IT Jungle published by Timothy Prickett Morgan, The Four Hundred, IT Jungle
At the recent Hot Chips conference IBM engineers discussed the EnergyScale power-saving features of the new POWER7 chip and the POWER7 IH node that will be used for the Blue Waters supercomputer.
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9/3/2010
Cornell researchers, using computational modeling, are providing new insight into how atoms in crystals rearrange as the material is bent and shaped.
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8/26/2010EE Times writer EE Times by EE Times published by EE Times
Baba Arimilli, an IBM chief architect, and IBM senior design engineer Steve Baumgartner described at Hot Chips a bridge module that includes a hub chip and optical interconnects. The module is part of a board that includes four POWER7 processors and forms a basic building block for the Blue Waters supercomputer.
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8/16/2010
At this year's TeraGrid conference, Bob Wilhelmson, recently retired chief science officer of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), delivered a keynote address in which he discussed the Blue Waters architecture and shared several planned projects for the new supercomputer, which is expected to be one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world for open scientific research when it comes online next year.
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8/12/2010Karen Moltenbrey, Computer Graphics World writer Karen Moltenbrey, Computer Graphics World by Karen Moltenbrey, Computer Graphics World published by Karen Moltenbrey, Computer Graphics World
Computer Graphics World takes a look at cutting-edge planetarium shows, including NCSA's work on Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity.
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8/2/2010
RiverGlass Inc. announced an agreement with The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA), granting exclusive license rights to resell RiverGlass software.
“This agreement will enable Boeing to provide higher levels of innovation to our customers and ensure their missions are successful," said Dewey Houck, director of mission systems for Boeing I&SS.
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7/2/2010
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6/24/2010John Rath, Data Center Knowledge writer John Rath, Data Center Knowledge by John Rath, Data Center Knowledge published by John Rath, Data Center Knowledge
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6/22/2010
Thom Dunning, director for NCSA, interviews with WILL AM 580's Focus program, explaining what makes Blue Waters so special and what the world should expect from it.
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6/17/2010InsideHPC writer InsideHPC by InsideHPC published by InsideHPC
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6/15/2010
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6/14/2010
Intel Corp.'s engineer army is engaged in a tight maneuver: turning the remains of a chip aimed at entering a new market into a weapon for defending a niche the company dominates. NOTE: Subscription required to view full Washington Post content.
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6/9/2010
John Melchi, leader of NCSA's Administration Directorate, talks to Central Illinois Business about NCSA and the coming Blue Waters supercomputer.
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6/2/2010
In this video from the International Supercomputing Conference, NCSA Director Thom Dunning shows off the "compute heart of Blue Waters," the IH server node. (Note: Dunning's interview begins at 3:43)
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5/26/2010
A visualization of traffic flow in downtown Chicago created by NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory from data generated by the TRansportation ANalysis and SIMulation System was selected as the "image of the week" by International Science Grid This Week.
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5/25/2010Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOm writer Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOm by Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOm published by Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOm
GigaOm enjoys NCSA's unboxing of the IBM 780 interim system: "a lovingly shot homage to their new gear."
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5/18/2010
When the Blue Waters supercomputer goes online next year, it’ll be a marathon runner, not a sprinter. Yes, it’ll boast blindingly fast peak performance of 10 petaflops, but more importantly it will sustain at least one petaflop—a boon in real–world problem solving—for dozens of researchers in many fields of science.
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5/10/2010
Using supercomputers at NCSA and other sites, a team of physicists led by Ohio State University has simulated the behavior of silica in a high-temperature, high-pressure form that is particularly difficult to study firsthand in the lab. Their quantum mechanics simulations have revealed that the most common mineral on Earth is relatively uncommon deep within the planet.
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4/28/2010
Iowa State researchers Monica Lamm and Theresa Windus and Ames Laboratory chemist Mark Gordon can't wait to do computational chemistry at a quadrillion calculations per second with the Blue Waters supercomputer.
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4/27/2010
NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory worked with the Space Telescope Science Institute to create scenes for the film “Hubble 3D.”
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4/22/2010
Global temperatures of the last decade are higher than they have been in more than 2,000 years—and manmade emissions from heat-trapping gases are largely responsible, according to climate expert Donald Wuebbles.
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4/21/2010
On this day in 1993, NCSA Mosaic 1.0, the first web browser to achieve popularity among the general public, is released. With it, the web as we know it begins to flourish.
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4/19/2010
HASTAC's first virtual conference was a success, with participants using video, chat, Google Wave, YouTube and more to connect.
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4/16/2010
Computer experts at the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign helped the Society for Architectural Historians develop a new walking tour of Chicago buildings that can be downloaded to your mobile phone.
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4/13/2010
NCSA is a key collaborator in a Remote Data Analysis and Visualization (RDAV) Center that will provide remote visualization, image generation, statistical analysis, and a variety of other services to users, making it a leading center for developing new technology and capabilities for researchers.
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3/18/2010
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3/15/2010
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3/11/2010
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3/9/2010
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3/4/2010Bridget Shanahan, WICD writer Bridget Shanahan, WICD by Bridget Shanahan, WICD published by Bridget Shanahan, WICD
WICD takes a closer look at the Blue Waters project, which will bring a multi-petaflop supercomputer to the University of Illinois. When the supercomputer comes online next year, it is expected to be the most powerful one in the world and researchers are already eagerly preparing to use Blue Waters for big science and engineering challenges.
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2/25/2010John West, InsideHPC writer John West, InsideHPC by John West, InsideHPC published by John West, InsideHPC
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2/24/2010
NCSA Director Thom Dunning was among the research leaders invited to testify at a hearing held by the House Subcommittee on Research and Science Education. Dunning said he is concerned that shortfalls in facilities budgets could let other countries surge ahead in supercomputing capabilities that drive discovery and innovation.
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2/22/2010Stephen Mounsey, Scientific Computing World writer Stephen Mounsey, Scientific Computing World by Stephen Mounsey, Scientific Computing World published by Stephen Mounsey, Scientific Computing World
High-performance computing plays a key role in improving weather forecasting, so it's no surprise that atmospheric scientists "are already being lined up to make use of the NCSA’s ‘Blue Waters’ sustained-petaflop supercomputer." Bob Wilhelmson describes how his team will use Blue Waters to gain new insights about the formation of powerful tornadoes.
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2/15/2010
InsideHPC names NCSA's Bill Kramer a "rock star of HPC": "Kramer’s career choices have always drawn him to our community’s leading organizations, places that were changing something fundamental about what it means to be a supercomputer center. But he isn’t about change just for the sake of change: for Kramer it is a way to make sure that he stays fresh, and does the best job he can for the people he is leading, and for the people who use his systems."
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2/9/2010
POWER7 has another leg up on Itanium: It is already being used to construct what may be the fastest supercomputer in the world at the renowned National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, a credible claim, considering the center's history--and IBM's, whose chips in the past have powered the world's fastest supercomputers.
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2/8/2010
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2/5/2010
An exhibit at the Illinois State Museum's Chicago Gallery features a piece developed through a collaboration between NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory and (art)n, a collective led by multimedia artist Ellen Sandor. "Oceans of Change" is a digital sculpture based on a scientific visualization of ocean currents produced by NCSA's AVL.
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2/3/2010
When the Blue Waters supercomputer comes online at Illinois next year, it will be about five times faster than the fastest supercomputer in the world today.
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1/27/2010
White House guests who will sit with first lady Michelle Obama during tonight's State of the Union address include former NCSA'er Ping Fu, co-founder of the company Geomagic. The National Science Foundation awarded Geomagic the prestigious Tibbetts Award for exemplifying the very best in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.
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1/15/2010
A study conducted over a five-year period at an Illinois hospital created a pain management algorithm that is reducing the number of injuries and deaths related to errors in how pain management drugs are administered.
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1/12/2010WILL writer WILL by WILL published by WILL
It will be sometime next year before researchers can use the world’s fastest supercomputer on the Illinois' campus, but there’s already a list of teams who will have first dibs when Blue Waters comes online. And the National Center for Supercomputing Applications is seeking applications for more through mid-March.
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1/11/2010
NCSA's Adam Slagell, security architect for Blue Waters and author of “Collaborative Computer Security and Trust Management,” will give a talk on“Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt: The Pillars of Justification for Cyber Security.” The presentation covers the way fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) are used to justify security measures in and out of cyberspace, and recommends practical, evidence- and numbers-based security practices.
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12/17/2009Erika Strebel writer Erika Strebel by Erika Strebel published by Erika Strebel
NCSA's Peter Bajscy leads a project to develop a “tele-immersive environment” that captures, transmits, and displays three-dimensional movement in real time.
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12/7/2009Green Data Center Blog writer Green Data Center Blog by Green Data Center Blog published by Green Data Center Blog
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12/7/2009
Software design principles and debugging methods are helping researchers identify a way to reduce the number of injuries and deaths related to errors in how drugs are administered to hospital patients.
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12/7/2009Brooke Crothers, CNET writer Brooke Crothers, CNET by Brooke Crothers, CNET published by Brooke Crothers, CNET
IBM's Power7 processor will be used to build the Blue Waters supercomputer at NCSA, which will be the most powerful system in the world when it comes online in 2011.
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11/30/2009Timothy Prickett Morgan, IT Jungle writer Timothy Prickett Morgan, IT Jungle by Timothy Prickett Morgan, IT Jungle published by Timothy Prickett Morgan, IT Jungle
At SC09, IT Jungle's Timothy Prickett Morgan got a tour of IBM's Power7 IH supercomputer node, which will make up the sustained-petaflop Blue Waters supercomputer.
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11/18/2009
During the Opening Gala at SC09, insideHPC presented the inaugural awards HPC Community Leadership to Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Illinois' Bill Gropp.
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11/12/2009
NCSA's ICLCS was featured in the NSF's educational technology showcase at Capitol Hill.
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11/9/2009The (Danville) Commerical-News writer The (Danville) Commerical-News by The (Danville) Commerical-News published by The (Danville) Commerical-News
Danville biology teacher Kathy Hafner is participating in the Institute for Chemistry Literacy through Computational Science, a University of Illinois-led program that helps rural educators gain new skills.
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11/9/2009The News-Gazette writer The News-Gazette by The News-Gazette published by The News-Gazette
The News-Gazette toured the Petascale Computing Facility, getting a sneak peak at the home for the sustained-petascale Blue Waters supercomputer. The building will be finished by summer 2010.
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10/19/2009
A team led by LSU's Erik Schnetter has been awarded more than $2 million to research gamma-ray bursts using the Blue Waters machine that will come online in 2011.
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10/19/2009
RIT's Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation has been awarded a $40,000 NSF PRAC grant to prepare relativity codes for the multi-petaflop Blue Waters supercomputer coming online at Illinois in 2011.
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10/19/2009
A team led by LSU's Erik Schnetter has been awarded a $35,896 NSF PRAC grant. His research group will work with the Blue Waters team to prepare codes for the multi-petaflop system that comes online in 2011.
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10/8/2009
The Cyprus Institute and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have signed a research and educational collaboration agreement for the development of the Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center (CaSToRC) of the Cyprus Institute. CaSToRC is leveraging NCSA's experitse in designing and operating supercomputing centers and installing, operating, and delivering groundbreaking science using high-performance computing.
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10/6/2009
Scientists have a long (and unsuccessful) history of trying to convert hydrogen to a metal (and therefore a high-temperature superconductor) by subjecting it to high pressure. In a paper published this week in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of scientists from Cornell University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook announce a theoretical study that predicts the metallization of hydrogen-rich mixtures at significantly lower pressures. Their research used computing resources provided by NCSA.
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10/1/2009
University of Illinois researcher and frequent NCSA collaborator Klaus Schulten talks to Scientific American about how GPUs, including those in NCSa's Lincoln cluster, are accelerating work on photosynthesis.
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9/28/2009
The Business Insider's Andreessen: The Early Days features former NCSA'er Marc Andreessen discussing the development of Mosaic at NCSA.
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9/21/2009
IBM says the Power7 processor that will make up the petascale Blue Waters system will be a muscular, flexible chip that delivers the performance required for high-performance scientific simulation and for business applications.
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9/9/2009
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8/24/2009ee Times writer ee Times by ee Times published by ee Times
IBM Corp. will take the lead in the race for building the fastest multicore server processor when it unveils its Power7 processor (to be used in NCSA's sustained petaflop Blue Waters system) at this week's Hot Chips conference. The eight-core, 45nm chip is expected to set new watermarks in parallelism and cache that could translate into leading-edge performance for servers using it.
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8/21/2009
Details on the Power7 hardware that will make up the sustained petaflop Blue Waters system will be revealed at next week's Hot Chips conference, and anticipation is building at The Register and CNET.
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8/21/2009
A familiar face from the NCSA director's office, administrative assistant Beth McKown, is spotlighted in the latest issue of Inside Illinois!
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8/18/2009
The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) and the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville are making available 2 million hours of supercomputing time to projects in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
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8/13/2009
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7/24/2009
IBM has revealed additional information on the Power7 chips that will be part of the Blue Waters sustained petaflop supercomputer due to come online at NCSA in 2011.
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7/21/2009
Researchers at Stanford University and NCSA rewrote the GAMESS molecular design program to use graphics processing units (GPUs) to calculate the structures of molecules ranging from the 24-atom caffeine molecule to the 453-atom olestra molecule, speeding processing by 650 times.
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7/21/2009
William Gropp, the Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science and a Blue Waters co-principal investigator, is among those honored by R&D Magazine for the development of PETSc, software that allows engineers and scientists to perform large-scale numerical simulations of physical phenomena rapidly and efficiently.
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7/14/2009
Governor Pat Quinn approved a $31 billion dollar construction spending bill that aims to improve Illinois infrastructure and employment. The money will be divvied up among various state leaders and institutions including the university. $60 million will be used for construction of the Illinois Petascale Computing Facility, which will house Blue Waters and other NCSA cyberinfrastructure.
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7/2/2009
Darkstrand's Chief Technology Officer explains how a visit to NCSA helped bring attention to what appears to be a lack of modeling and simulation skills among science and engineering students.
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7/1/2009
NCSA helped run a new computer model developed at MIT to help solve a problem that has plagued drug companies trying to develop promising new treatments made of antibodies.
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6/19/2009
Three university presidents, including Illinois' B. Joseph White, voice their opinion on how President Obama's proposed 2010 budget can benefit national research facilities like NCSA. The budget would include the first increase in federal research funding, in real dollars, in eight years.
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6/19/2009
Thanks to a team of researchers led by NCSA's Peter Bajcsy, physical activity from separate locations can come together on one screen using 3D and virtual technology. The project, called "Tele-immersive Environment for Everybody," would allow gamers, businessmen and even light saber dueling Jedi knights to conference and physically interact within a virtual space despite geographical distance.
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6/17/2009
Blue Waters will be the first sustained petascale computing system available for open science. In 2011, researchers in science and engineering can use the supercomputer to perform one quadrillion operations per second allowing for better opportunities in solving scientific challenges.
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6/15/2009
Gartner, Inc. has named NCSA spin-off RiverGlass, Inc. a "cool vendor." A complete list was published in Gartner's "Cool Vendors in Content Management, 2009" report. The firm judged RiverGlass on its innovation, impact and intrigue.
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4/29/2009Andy Ihnatko writer Andy Ihnatko by Andy Ihnatko published by Andy Ihnatko
Chicago Sun-Times technology columnist Andy Ihnatko toured the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and was wowed by the computing, visualization, and data storage capacity at the center.
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4/27/2009
A new study reveals that, contrary to decades of evolutionary thought, chromosome regions that are prone to breakage when new species are formed are a rich source of genetic variation.
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4/25/2009
During the recent HASTAC III conference, NCSA's Donna Cox led a panel on "What's the Matter with New Arts Media? A Forum on the Ubiquitous Arts." HASTAC Scholar Veronica Paredes, a PhD student at the University of Southern California, blogged the session, which featured Thecla Schiphort, Mikel Rouse, and Anne Balsamo.
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4/15/2009
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4/15/2009
The Office of the Chancellor spotlights Blue Waters, which is expected to be the most powerful supercomputer in the world for open scientific research when it comes online in 2011.
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4/14/2009
During a petascale computing symposium sponsored by the Computers in Chemistry Division at the recent American Chemical Society national meeting, researchers discussed the need to adjust their methods and applications to take full advantage of the future petascale and exascale computing resources, including the Blue Waters system that will come online at NCSA in 2011.
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4/11/2009
NCSA intern August Knecht and three graduate students won first place in the V. Dale Cozad New Venture Competition for their website, SongAlive, which allows musicians around the world to collaborate.
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3/19/2009Southtown Star writer Southtown Star by Southtown Star published by Southtown Star
3D images produced by NCSA are part of "3-D Universe: A Symphony," a 35-minute combination of astronomy imagery and classical music at the Adler Planetarium.
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3/18/2009The Daily Illini writer The Daily Illini by The Daily Illini published by The Daily Illini
The new Emerging Digital Research and Education Institute (eDream) seeks to promote digital arts media by fostering research, education, and public engagement.
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3/16/2009The Daily Illini writer The Daily Illini by The Daily Illini published by The Daily Illini
Illinois researchers Anne Villamil, Stefan Krasa and Jamsheed Shorishare using NCSA resources to model the impact of economic policies on small businesses.
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3/13/2009The Boston Globe writer The Boston Globe by The Boston Globe published by The Boston Globe
The World Wide Web turns 20 this month, marking two decades since Tim Berners-Lee wrote a technical paper with the unassuming title "Information Management: A Proposal." NCSA played a key role in the worldwide adoption of the Web when it released Mosaic--a new browser that could show photos and could be controlled by clicking a mouse--in 1993.
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3/9/2009Melissa Merli, The News-Gazette writer Melissa Merli, The News-Gazette by Melissa Merli, The News-Gazette published by Melissa Merli, The News-Gazette
The University of Illinois's new Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute (eDREAM) aims to produce digitally savvy American workers and thinkers.
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3/5/2009
In this short video, IBM explains how many calculations are in a petaflop, and how this breakthrough in computing power will lead to innovation and discovery.
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3/4/2009NetworkWorld writer NetworkWorld by NetworkWorld published by NetworkWorld
The National Science Foundation is looking for a few good applications to run on the Blue Waters sustained-petaflop supercomputer once it comes online in 2011. NSF invites research groups that "have a compelling science or engineering challenge that will require petascale computing resources to submit requests for" Petascale Computing Resource Allocations.
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3/4/2009Eclipse writer Eclipse by Eclipse published by Eclipse
The MAEviz software developed by NCSA in conjunction with the Mid-America Earthquake Center is one of two finalists in the best open-source Eclipse rich client platform (RCP) application category of the annual Eclipse Technology Awards. The winner will be announced March 23 at Eclipse-Con.
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2/17/2009
The NCSA-sponsored symposium at the Feb. 2009 AAAS meeting, "Big, Small and Everything in Between: Simulating Our World Using Scientific Computing," featured several computational scientists discussing the value of supercomputing, especially at the petascale and beyond.
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2/14/2009
Scientific computing is rapidly moving to the petascale, and during the AAAS meeting in Chicago NCSA Director Thom Dunning and others discuss the need for this advanced supercomputing power.
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1/14/2009
During a conference at Fordham University, NCSA's Jim Barlow described how the center's staff successfully collaborated with the FBI to trace and bring to justice a teen-ager hacker who had infiltrated the TeraGrid.
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12/8/2008The Channel Regsiter writer The Channel Regsiter by The Channel Regsiter published by The Channel Regsiter
During a talk at SC08, IBM's Ed Seminaro details some of the techniques for improved energy efficiency that will be used as part of the Blue Waters project and in the design of the Illinois Petascale Computing Facility.
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12/1/2008
NCSA Director Thom Dunning was among the members of the University of Illinois delegation attending an Advanced Nanostructured Materials and Technology conference in Amman, Jordan, in November. The conference was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the University of Jordan, and King Abdullah Institute for Nanotechnology at the King Saud University, and other industry partners, including Naizak and PolyBrite.
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NCSA user David Baker earns Sackler Prize
12/1/2008
David Baker, a University of Washington professor of biochemistry and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute, has been selected to receive the 2008 Raymond & Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics, along with Martin Gruebele of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Jonathan Weissman of the University of California, San Francisco. Baker often uses the high-performance computing resources at NCSA to advance his modeling and simulation work.
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11/12/2008Randy Butler, NCSA, in International Science Grid This Week writer Randy Butler, NCSA, in International Science Grid This Week by Randy Butler, NCSA, in International Science Grid This Week published by Randy Butler, NCSA, in International Science Grid This Week
Randy Butler, co-lead of the NCSA's Cybersecurity Directorate, describes Palantir, a Web-based collaborative environment designed for cybercrime investigations.
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11/6/2008The News-Gazette writer The News-Gazette by The News-Gazette published by The News-Gazette
With excavators scooping dirt and dust flying a few feet away, University of Illinois officials and researchers on Wednesday celebrated the building of a facility that will eventually house the world's fastest computer.
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11/6/2008WILL AM writer WILL AM by WILL AM published by WILL AM
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11/5/2008Associated Press writer Associated Press by Associated Press published by Associated Press
Construction has begun on the $72 million building at the University of Illinois that will house Blue Waters, a supercomputer funded by the National Science Foundation that is expected to be the most powerful system in the world for open scientific research.
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11/3/2008
The official groundbreaking ceremony for the Illinois Petascale Computing Facility will be held Nov. 5. The 88,000-square-foot building will house the Blue Waters sustained-petaflop supercomputer when that National Science Foundation-funded resource comes online in 2011.
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10/28/2008Iroquois County Times-Record writer Iroquois County Times-Record by Iroquois County Times-Record published by Iroquois County Times-Record
Central High School science teacher David Ladehoff described the benefits of his participation in the Institute for Chemistry Literacy through Computational Science, a program to provide rural Illinois teachers with skills, tools, and support that can enrich their students' education. NCSA is a key partner in ICLCS.
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10/15/2008Pete Sherman, The State Journal-Register writer Pete Sherman, The State Journal-Register by Pete Sherman, The State Journal-Register published by Pete Sherman, The State Journal-Register
A coalition led by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and including NCSA is a finalist in the competition for a $20 million collection of Lincoln artifacts.
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10/9/2008
The Christian Science Monitor cites the TeraGrid as one example of the growth of e-science.
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9/23/2008News Bureau writer News Bureau by News Bureau published by News Bureau
University of Illinois computational researcher Klaus Schulten, a frequent user of NCSA's high-performance computing systems, will co-lead a new National Science Foundation-funded Center for the Physics of the Living Cell with Illinois colleague Taekjip Ha.
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9/10/2008
NCSA faculty fellow and University of Illinois physics professor Mark Neubauer is excited about the feast of petabytes of data that will be produced by the Large Hadron Collider "It presents an unprecedented scientific computing challenge," he says.
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9/8/2008Emily Stone, Chicago Business writer Emily Stone, Chicago Business by Emily Stone, Chicago Business published by Emily Stone, Chicago Business
NCSA's spin-off RiverGlass develops software that runs simultaneous, focused searches of Web sites and internal data and then helps organize and analyze results. Among the company's clients are the Illinois State Police, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
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9/3/2008PC Magazine writer PC Magazine by PC Magazine published by PC Magazine
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8/22/2008WDWS writer WDWS by WDWS published by WDWS
Von Welch and Randy Butler, leaders of NCSA's Cybersecurity Directorate, discuss cybersecurity projects under way at NCSA, including tools being developed to help law enforcement investigate cybercrime.
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7/20/2008Southtown Star writer Southtown Star by Southtown Star published by Southtown Star
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield--is a finalist for a $20 million collection of Abraham Lincoln materials being given away by the Lincoln Financial Foundation, owner of a recently closed Lincoln museum in Fort Wayne, Ind. The museum has created a nationwide consortium of partners that would all share in loaning, interpreting and digitizing the collection. Partners include the Chicago History Museum, Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Lincoln College in Lincoln and the University of Illinois and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
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7/15/2008Mechanical Science and Engineering Department writer Mechanical Science and Engineering Department by Mechanical Science and Engineering Department published by Mechanical Science and Engineering Department
A MechSE student design team recently helped design a cooling system for the data center that will house the Blue Waters petascale supercomputer when it comes online in 2011. The novel cooling system is expected to save $2 million a year in energy costs.
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7/14/2008U.S. News and World Report writer U.S. News and World Report by U.S. News and World Report published by U.S. News and World Report
Like most viruses, the ones that cause flu are sneaky little things armed with an amazing ability to rapidly change their spots—that is, the viral molecules that launch a seek-and-destroy response from the human immune system. In the case of avian or "bird flu," new strains are popping up all the time and rendering old medicines and vaccines practically useless, which is seriously bad news if you're trying to prevent a possible world-wide epidemic.
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7/11/2008
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7/7/2008Joyce Tagal, Financial Times writer Joyce Tagal, Financial Times by Joyce Tagal, Financial Times published by Joyce Tagal, Financial Times
NCSA Mosaic started the revolution that would lead to the democratisation of the world wide web--information available to anyone, anytime, anywhere. Its easy-to-use interface blended aesthetic appeal and convenience---so much so that huge numbers of ordinary users flocked to the program, causing data traffic jams on the internet.
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7/3/2008UC San Diego writer UC San Diego by UC San Diego published by UC San Diego
Using computing resources at NCSA and the San Diego Supercomputer Center, a team of UC San Diego scientists has isolated more than two dozen novel compounds from which new drugs might be developed to combat avian flu.
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6/30/2008Lorne Leonard, Bernard Cesarone, and Atakan Guven writer Lorne Leonard, Bernard Cesarone, and Atakan Guven by Lorne Leonard, Bernard Cesarone, and Atakan Guven published by Lorne Leonard, Bernard Cesarone, and Atakan Guven
To help Illinois agencies equitably plan services and allocate funds based on where needs are greatest, the Illinois Early Learning Council requested the creation of an interactive, Web-based tool to compile the relevant data on early care and education services. The result: the Illinois Early Childhood Asset Map, a GIS Web application developed by the Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ECAP worked on the project with Chicago Metropolis 2020, a business-backed civic organization.
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6/25/2008International Science Grid This Week writer International Science Grid This Week by International Science Grid This Week published by International Science Grid This Week
Girls are getting ready for careers in science and mathematics at NCSA! Through Girls Engaged in Math and Science (GEMS), about 40 local middle-school girls are exploring the universe and the tools and techniques of digital astronomy. NCSA and the Department of Astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are partners on the project.
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6/20/2008Wolfgang Gruener, TG Daily writer Wolfgang Gruener, TG Daily by Wolfgang Gruener, TG Daily published by Wolfgang Gruener, TG Daily
NCSA and the Mid America Earthquake Center have developed MAEviz, a tool to predict and analyze earthquake damage in great detail. MAEviz is intended to help policymakers prepare for potential quakes. When a moderate quake shook Illinois in April, it was a valuable test case for the MAEviz team as they prepare to model the potential impact of a major quake along the New Madrid fault.
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6/19/2008The News-Gazette, Amy F. Reiter writer The News-Gazette, Amy F. Reiter by The News-Gazette, Amy F. Reiter published by The News-Gazette, Amy F. Reiter
NCSA's Yong Liu is helping to organize an art sale and benefit performance to raise money for victims of the recent devastating earthquake in China. The event will be held Thursday, June 26 at the Vineyard Church, 1500 N. Lincoln Ave., Urbana.
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6/19/2008John E. West, for HPCwire writer John E. West, for HPCwire by John E. West, for HPCwire published by John E. West, for HPCwire
In the highest Top500 ranking for a Windows system to date, NCSA's Abe cluster landed at #23 with performance of 68.5 teraflops and 77 percent efficiency.
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5/23/2008Kirk Ladendorf, Austin American-Statesman writer Kirk Ladendorf, Austin American-Statesman by Kirk Ladendorf, Austin American-Statesman published by Kirk Ladendorf, Austin American-Statesman
The world's next huge scientific supercomputer, called Blue Waters, will be built by IBM Corp. in close collaboration with NCSA, the University of Illinois, and the institutions of the Great Lakes Consortium. When it goes online in 2011, Blue Waters is expected to be 30 times more powerful than Ranger, the current scientific computing speed champion at the University of Texas.
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4/24/2008CIO writer CIO by CIO published by CIO
Marc Andreessen had no idea that the Mosaic browser he co-developed with Eric Bina at NCSA would kick off the Web revolution. "We had extremely low expectations. And then of course it took off," Andreessen reminisced during a keynote session at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
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4/9/2008IT Jungle writer IT Jungle by IT Jungle published by IT Jungle
University of Illinois will become the new standard bearer for high-end Power-Dave Turek, vice president of deep computing at IBM, says the Blue Waters petascale computing project will make NCSA and the University of Illinois the "standard bearer for high-end Power-based supercomputing."
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4/8/2008Wailin Wong, Chicago Tribune writer Wailin Wong, Chicago Tribune by Wailin Wong, Chicago Tribune published by Wailin Wong, Chicago Tribune
IBM is moving to the use of water to cool its POWER processors, including the next-generation POWER7 processors that will be used in Blue Waters. "Now we're at a point in time where the only way to dissipate the heat is to use a material that will conduct the heat away," says Dave Turek, IBM's vice president of supercomputing.
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3/1/2008Computing Research News writer Computing Research News by Computing Research News published by Computing Research News
Computing Research News spotlights NCSA, giving an overview of the center's expertise in high-performance computing, cutting-edge systems, cybersecurity, and other critical areas.
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2/27/2008Ohio Supercomputer Center writer Ohio Supercomputer Center by Ohio Supercomputer Center published by Ohio Supercomputer Center
Wen-mei Hwu, leader of a project examining the use of next-generation acceleration systems for science and engineering applications through the Institute for Advanced Applications and Technologies, gave a talk as part of the Ohio Supercomputer Center's Computational Science Lecture Series. Hwu said that high-performance computing will rely on parallel programming on graphical processing units (GPUs) in order to continue improving application-level computation speeds.
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2/16/2008The Telegraph writer The Telegraph by The Telegraph published by The Telegraph
University of Illinois chemist Todd Martinez is simulating the interactions between the atoms in electrons using an unusual architecture -- the Cell processor found in Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console.
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2/3/2008Quincy Herald Whig writer Quincy Herald Whig by Quincy Herald Whig published by Quincy Herald Whig
Vernon Burton--University of Illinois scholar, leader of the Center for Computng in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science, and author of "The Age of Lincoln"--provided an overview of the political, cultural, and religious climate of the United States before and after Lincoln during a symposium on the Lincoln-Douglas debates at John Wood Community College.
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1/21/2008Chicago Tribune writer Chicago Tribune by Chicago Tribune published by Chicago Tribune
RiverGlass Inc., a Champaign-based software company that uses data-mining technology developed at NCSA, said Monday that it has raised an additional $2.4 million in venture-capital financing, and will use funds to expand its product-development and sales operation.
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1/17/2008Nature writer Nature by Nature published by Nature
Nature magazine spotlights the work NCSA user and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researcher Klaus Schulten is doing with the molecular dynamics simulation program NAMD.
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12/24/2007Bill Thompson, BBC News writer Bill Thompson, BBC News by Bill Thompson, BBC News published by Bill Thompson, BBC News
2007 marked the 10th anniversary of the end of development for Mosaic, which commentator Thompson calls "the first and to me the most important web browser."
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12/21/2007Norman Chonacky, Computing in Science & Engineering writer Norman Chonacky, Computing in Science & Engineering by Norman Chonacky, Computing in Science & Engineering published by Norman Chonacky, Computing in Science & Engineering
Computing in Science & Engineering editor-in-chief Norman Chonacky cites Thom Dunning's talk at SC07, "The Challenge of Petascale Computing," in his January/February editorial. "(Dunning) reminded us that it's the current crop of frist-year college students who will be the scientists and engineers managing petascale computing challenges at the time the first of these machines becomes available."
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12/18/2007James Rogers, Byte and Switch writer James Rogers, Byte and Switch by James Rogers, Byte and Switch published by James Rogers, Byte and Switch
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12/18/2007
Linux Magazine includes NCSA's Perfsuite on its list of "tools no cluster admin should be without."
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12/13/2007Aaron Ricadela, Business Week writer Aaron Ricadela, Business Week by Aaron Ricadela, Business Week published by Aaron Ricadela, Business Week
In this Business Week article, NCSA Director Thom Dunning comments on the challenges involved in applying supercomputing techniques to products designed for the broader market.
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11/1/2007James E. Kloeppel, News Bureau, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign writer James E. Kloeppel, News Bureau, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by James E. Kloeppel, News Bureau, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign published by James E. Kloeppel, News Bureau, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carlos Pantano, a professor of mechanical science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is among 58 young researchers named recipients of the 2006 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. Pantano received the award for innovative development of computational turbulence models and advanced simulations of turbulent flows, contributions to the theory of laminar flames, and the statistical modeling of flame-hole dynamics. Pantano uses the computational resources at NCSA for his work.
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10/24/2007Supercomputing Online writer Supercomputing Online by Supercomputing Online published by Supercomputing Online
A scientific paper written by a research team from NCSA and the Rennaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) was named the best application paper at the recent IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering. The paper, "MotifNetwork: A Grid-enabled Workflow for High-throughput Domain Analysis of Biological Sequences," was authored by Gloria Rendon, Mao-Feng Ger and Eric Jakobsson of NCSA and Jeffrey L. Tilson of RENCI.
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10/14/2007Pat McCoid, The News Tribune writer Pat McCoid, The News Tribune by Pat McCoid, The News Tribune published by Pat McCoid, The News Tribune
News Tribune reviewer Pat McCoid tackled three books that provide a fresh perspective on politics of slavery, noting that Orville Vernon Burton's "lifetime of research has enabled him to condense an eventful 70 years into a single cohesive book infused with a perspective that could only be gleaned from total immersion in a subject."
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10/13/2007Catherine Clinton, The Chicago Tribune writer Catherine Clinton, The Chicago Tribune by Catherine Clinton, The Chicago Tribune published by Catherine Clinton, The Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune review Orville Vernon Burton's new book, "The Age of Lincoln," praising it as "learned, lively and enriching." "In Burton's capable hands, Lincoln emerges within a new and original context," reviewer Catherine Clinton writes.
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10/4/2007Dan Tynan, PC World writer Dan Tynan, PC World by Dan Tynan, PC World published by Dan Tynan, PC World
The release of NCSA Mosaic, the first widely available graphical Web browser, is listed as the 6th greatest moment in the history of the still adolescent Web.
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10/1/2007CIO magazine writer CIO magazine by CIO magazine published by CIO magazine
In a look back at the past 20 years of IT history, CIO magazine recalls the impact that NCSA Mosaic, the first widely available graphical Web browseer. "What Windows 3.1 was to the microcomputer, Mosaic was to the World Wide Web."
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9/18/2007University of Illinois News Bureau writer University of Illinois News Bureau by University of Illinois News Bureau published by University of Illinois News Bureau
Vernon Burton, leader for the Center for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science, will be interviewed about his new book, "The Age of Lincoln," when the University of Illinois hosts C-SPAN 2's Book TV on Thursday, Sept. 20.
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8/31/2007Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign writer Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign published by Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computer Science professor Brian Bailey has been honored with an NSF CAREER award to support his ongoing research on collaborative multi-display environments. Bailey explored this research as an NCSA Faculty Fellow in 2004-2005. The award was for $500K and will be distributed over a five-year period.
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8/29/2007East Bay Express writer East Bay Express by East Bay Express published by East Bay Express
Marianne Weems, director of the New York-based multimedia theater group Builders Association, collabored with staff at NCSA on the company's latest project, <i>Continuous City</i>, which will have its debut in 2008.
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8/23/2007Tina Gasperson, Linux.com writer Tina Gasperson, Linux.com by Tina Gasperson, Linux.com published by Tina Gasperson, Linux.com
NCSA is creating tools to monitor how global climate change is affecting plants and wildlife, to track oil spills, and to predict the possible effects of seismographic activity on bridges and other structures. To facilitate communication and collaboration, NCSA is using the Web infrastructure it helped to launch almost 15 years ago, in a research program called the CyberCollaboratory. Open source software is an integral part of the Web-based intiative.
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8/23/2007The Chicago Tribune writer The Chicago Tribune by The Chicago Tribune published by The Chicago Tribune
The Heartland Prize for Non-Fiction has been awarded to Orville Vernon Burton for <i>The Age of Lincoln,</i> an ambitious examination of Abraham Lincoln's deep influence in the creation of a new concept of personal freedom in the U.S. during the 19th Century. The prize, given by <i>The Chicago Tribune</i>, will be awarded Nov. 4 during the Chicago Humanities Festival.
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8/20/2007Government Computer News writer Government Computer News by Government Computer News published by Government Computer News
The FBI has chosen the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to host a new cybersecurity research center. The bureau will provide $3 million to support the first two years? operation of the National Center for Digital Intrusion Response.
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8/5/2007Greg Kline, The News-Gazette writer Greg Kline, The News-Gazette by Greg Kline, The News-Gazette published by Greg Kline, The News-Gazette
Scientists at the Illinois Natural History Survey study the songs and movements of birds like cardinals. Experts at NCSA and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science assist with the analysis of their data.
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8/1/2007The Pantagraph writer The Pantagraph by The Pantagraph published by The Pantagraph
NCSA honored educators from Normal, Chiddix, and Kingsley for their use of videoconferencing in the classroom. The educators received web cameras and support from the University of Illinois' Technology Research, Education and Commercialization Center.
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7/26/2007BusinessWeek writer BusinessWeek by BusinessWeek published by BusinessWeek
Former NCSA employee and University of Illinois alumnus Marc Andreessen has sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion.
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7/15/2007NWI.com writer NWI.com by NWI.com published by NWI.com
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7/2/2007Rick Hodgin, TG Daily writer Rick Hodgin, TG Daily by Rick Hodgin, TG Daily published by Rick Hodgin, TG Daily
TG Daily reporter Rick Hodgin toured NCSA's facility and was impressed by the computing power and staff expertise he encountered.
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6/28/2007InformationWeek writer InformationWeek by InformationWeek published by InformationWeek
The 29th list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world was released Wednesday, with NCSA's new 89 teraflop system landing in the top 10.
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6/26/2007David Strom, Computerworld writer David Strom, Computerworld by David Strom, Computerworld published by David Strom, Computerworld
"The point of TeraGrid is to pull together the capabilities and intellectual resources for problems that can't be handled at a single site," said NCSA deputy director Rob Pennington.
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6/6/2007Campus Technology writer Campus Technology by Campus Technology published by Campus Technology
The Andrew Mellon Foundation has awarded $1.2 million to NCSA and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science to develop tools to draw insight from unstructured data.
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6/1/2007HPCwire writer HPCwire by HPCwire published by HPCwire
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $1.2 million to NCSA and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. The grant will support the development of an environment for drawing knowledge from humanities data.
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