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UI-7 examines Blue Waters Early Science SystemPublished Date:March 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. Published Date: March 5, 2012 LA Times spotlights NCSA's work on Oscar-nominated filmPublished Date:February 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.
Published Date: February 27, 2012 BBC describes Stephen Long's photosynthesis work using NCSA supercomputerPublished Date:February 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. Published Date: February 24, 2012 Chancellor Wise highlights Blue Waters impact on campusPublished Date:February 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. Published Date: February 21, 2012 Chicago Tribune: Blue Waters installation beginsPublished Date:February 2, 2012 The first pieces of the Blue Waters supercomputer have been installed at the University of Illinois. Published Date: February 2, 2012 HPCwire calls Marc Snir one to watch in 2012Published Date:January 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. Published Date: January 24, 2012 NCSA resources help Cornell researchers predict high-pressure icePublished Date:January 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. Published Date: January 18, 2012 Dunning comments on HPC education, trainingPublished Date:January 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. Published Date: January 5, 2012 CI Living captures NCSA's visualization skillPublished Date:November 30, 2011 CI Living shows how NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory transforms scientific data into artistic animations for TV, museums, planetariums, and IMAX. Published Date: November 30, 2011 Science magazine spotlights 'workhorse' Blue Waters supercomputerPublished Date:November 30, 2011 Published Date: November 30, 2011 Washington Post: Cray joins Blue Waters supercomputer projectPublished Date:November 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. Published Date: November 15, 2011 HPCwire: NCSA, Cray partner on Blue Waters supercomputerPublished Date:November 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. Published Date: November 15, 2011 PopSci shows 'a day in the life' of NCSA's iForge as Rolls Royce models enginesPublished Date:November 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. Published Date: November 3, 2011 'The Great Flood,' featuring Illinois visualizations, goes on the roadPublished Date:October 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. Published Date: October 18, 2011 NCSA's Merle Giles discusses HPC challenges with Digital Manufacturing ReportPublished Date:October 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. Published Date: October 13, 2011 NCSA spin-off RiverGlass acquired by Florida companyPublished Date:October 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. Published Date: October 12, 2011 NCSA contributes to MarketMaker, connecting farms and consumersPublished Date:September 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. Published Date: September 28, 2011 NCSA's Ember computing system aids solar cell researchPublished Date:September 8, 2011 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. Published Date: September 8, 2011 LA Times cites NCSA contribution to 'Tree of Life'Published Date:September 1, 2011 Director Terrence Malick tapped the team at the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to create visualizations based on data collected by astrophysicists. Published Date: September 1, 2011 Dunning comments on need for computing resources to drive energy sciencePublished Date:August 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.” Published Date: August 12, 2011 Listen to John Towns discuss XSEDE project on WILL radioPublished Date:August 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. Published Date: August 1, 2011 HPCwire interviews John Towns on 'Life after TeraGrid'Published Date:July 29, 2011 John Towns describes how the new Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) will build on and differ from the TeraGrid. Published Date: July 29, 2011 Government Computer News talks to John Towns about new XSEDE projectPublished Date:July 26, 2011 Government Computer News talks to project leader John Towns about the new Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). Published Date: July 26, 2011 Sheafe discusses cybersecurity with WILLPublished Date:July 19, 2011 Brad Sheafe, NCSA chief security officer, discusses cybersecurity with WILL radio (begins at 1:38). Published Date: July 19, 2011 The Register publishes details about IBM hardware for Blue WatersPublished Date:July 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. Published Date: July 18, 2011 Donna Cox emphasizes power of scientific visualization in SIGGRAPH video interviewPublished Date:June 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.
Published Date: June 24, 2011 Donna Cox discusses visualizations for Malick film with WILLPublished Date:June 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. Published Date: June 23, 2011 NCSA creates accurate images of the universe for Adler's 'Deep Space Adventure'Published Date:June 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. Published Date: June 22, 2011 NCSA's Showerman discusses porting codes to Intel's Knights FerryPublished Date:June 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. Published Date: June 20, 2011 NCSA helps Adler launch updated planetarium with data-driven visualizationsPublished Date:June 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. Published Date: June 20, 2011 NCSA visualization helps CNN explain tornadoesPublished Date:May 26, 2011 Published Date: May 26, 2011 HPCwire spotlights effort to prepare climate models for exascale eraPublished Date:May 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. Published Date: May 13, 2011 Writer marvels at Blue Waters, NCSA's other achievementsPublished Date:May 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. Published Date: May 2, 2011 PRAC researcher Wuebbles explains ozone depletionPublished Date:April 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. Published Date: April 25, 2011 Daily Illini marks Mosaic anniversary with look at browser's impactPublished Date:April 22, 2011 Eighteen years ago, the award-winning Web browser Mosaic 1.0 was released by the University’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Published Date: April 22, 2011 Former NCSA Faculty Fellow receives Guggenheim Foundation FellowshipPublished Date:April 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. Published Date: April 12, 2011 Chronicle of Higher Ed looks at Blue Waters and whether 'fast' is the best metric for supercomputersPublished Date:April 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. Published Date: April 4, 2011 New Scientist showcases Hurricane Katrina visualizationPublished Date:March 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. Published Date: March 22, 2011 WILL interviews NCSA director Thom Dunning as center turns 25Published Date:March 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. Published Date: March 2, 2011 Dunning to receive ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical ResearchPublished Date:February 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. Published Date: February 28, 2011 'Hubble 3D' named Best 3D DocumentaryPublished Date:February 14, 2011 Hubble 3D, a 43-minute IMAX® 3D documentary featuring two sequences created by NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory, was named Best 3D Documentary at the International 3D Society Awards. Congrats to AVL! Published Date: February 14, 2011 Daily Illini spotlights' NSF grant funding, including Blue Waters projectPublished Date:January 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. Published Date: January 27, 2011 NCSA data capacity aids precise measurement of muon lifetimePublished Date:January 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. Published Date: January 26, 2011 Popular Science showcases NCSA's Advanced Visualization LabPublished Date:January 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. Published Date: January 21, 2011 3DHollywood.net names 'Hubble 3D' best 3D Theatrical Documentary of 2010Published Date:January 4, 2011 Hubble 3D, a 43-minute IMAX® 3D documentary featuring two sequences created by NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory, was named best 3D Theatrical Documentary of 2010 by 3DHollywood.net. Congrats to AVL! Published Date: January 4, 2011 Towns discusses scientific data sharingPublished Date:December 16, 2010 John Towns, leader of NCSA's Persistent Infrastructure Directorate, discusses scientific data sharing -- benefits, problems, and how data sharing should be organized. Published Date: December 16, 2010 Scientific Computing World highlights NCSA Accelerator Cluster, CUDA software (PDF)Published Date:December 16, 2010 The Innovative Systems Laboratory has released a free CUDA wrapper library and CUDA memory tester to aid GPU software development. Published Date: December 16, 2010 CACM highlights NCSA power-monitoring methods for ECoG clusterPublished Date:December 8, 2010 Green500 founder Wu Feng invited Craig Steffen of NCSA to talk about the methodology used to measure their Green500 entry, called EcoG. Published Date: December 8, 2010 Peek at Krannert exhibit includes NCSA visualizations (video)Published Date:December 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. Published Date: December 2, 2010 Bajcsy leads team developing image analysis tools for humanities researchersPublished Date:December 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. Published Date: December 1, 2010 ISGTW features NCSA's video of pint-sized supercomputing expertsPublished Date:December 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? Published Date: December 1, 2010 WCIA checks out Green500 systemPublished Date:November 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. Published Date: November 30, 2010 Blue Waters to help assess earthquake impact, drive preparednessPublished Date:November 20, 2010 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. Published Date: November 20, 2010 Illinois students build one of world's 'greenest' supercomputersPublished Date:November 19, 2010 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. Published Date: November 19, 2010 Blue Waters education program takes petascale to undergraduatesPublished Date:November 19, 2010 The explosion of big data will cause, in turn, a demand for new skills. In order to help prepare a future generation of scientists, the Blue Waters Undergraduate Petascale Education Program is teaching students how to use petascale-class systems. Published Date: November 19, 2010 WIRED takes a close look at the Dark Energy Survey project, including NCSA's role in data processingPublished Date:November 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. Published Date: November 18, 2010 Bajcsy comments on digital humanities for New York TimesPublished Date:November 16, 2010 “The humanities and social sciences are the emerging domains for using high-performance computers,” said NCSA reserach scientist Peter Bajcsy. Published Date: November 16, 2010 Video game helps kids prepare for earthquakesPublished Date:November 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. Published Date: November 15, 2010 Dunning comments on challenges of reaching exascalePublished Date:November 12, 2010 "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. Published Date: November 12, 2010 Dunning comments on peak vs. sustained performancePublished Date:November 8, 2010 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. Published Date: November 8, 2010 Blue Waters to support black hole researchPublished Date:November 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. Published Date: November 8, 2010 NCSA's Ian Brooks describes how INDICATOR aims to catch, address outbreaksPublished Date:November 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. Published Date: November 4, 2010 Daily Illini compares current top supercomputer with Blue WatersPublished Date:November 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? Published Date: November 2, 2010 Schulten uses Lincoln cluster to determine GPU speedupPublished Date:November 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. Published Date: November 1, 2010 NCSA's Dunning comments on use of GPUs for scientific computingPublished Date:November 1, 2010 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." Published Date: November 1, 2010 NCSA helping 'ease transition' to HPC for small and medium businessesPublished Date:October 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. Published Date: October 28, 2010 NCSA to help Large Synoptic Survey Telescope deal with flood of dataPublished Date:October 20, 2010 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. Published Date: October 20, 2010 National Petascale Computing Facility honored by Construction Management Association of AmericaPublished Date:October 15, 2010 The construction of the National Petascale Computing Facility was among the innovative projects honored by the Construction Management Association of America recently. Published Date: October 15, 2010 Dunning to speak at Imaging Without BoundariesPublished Date:October 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.” Published Date: October 12, 2010 NCSA visualizations help California Academy of Sciences tell 'Life: A Cosmic Story'Published Date:October 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. Published Date: October 6, 2010 Bajcsy quoted in NYT story on use of imaging in sports trainingPublished Date:October 4, 2010 “If we don’t record 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. Published Date: October 4, 2010 Biophysicist Klaus Schulten explains how Blue Waters will help investigate the fundamentals of lifePublished Date:September 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. Published Date: September 20, 2010 Magnitude of Blue Waters inspires awePublished Date:September 13, 2010 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. Published Date: September 13, 2010 NCSA helps tell 'Life: A Cosmic Story'Published Date:September 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. Published Date: September 14, 2010 IBM describes describes new optical busPublished Date:September 9, 2010 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." Published Date: September 9, 2010 It Jungle reviews power-saving features of IBM's POWER7Published Date:September 7, 2010 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. Published Date: September 7, 2010 NCSA helps Cornell researchers find fractal boundaries in crystalsPublished Date:September 3, 2010 Cornell researchers, using computational modeling, are providing new insight into how atoms in crystals rearrange as the material is bent and shaped. Published Date: September 3, 2010 Details on IBM POWER7 hub chips revealed at Hot Chips conferencePublished Date:August 26, 2010 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. Published Date: August 26, 2010 Wilhelmson gives keynote on Blue Waters at TeraGrid '10Published Date:August 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. Published Date: August 16, 2010 Spotlight on planetarium advances includes NCSA's work on black hole showPublished Date:August 12, 2010 Computer Graphics World takes a look at cutting-edge planetarium shows, including NCSA's work on Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity. Published Date: August 12, 2010 RiverGlass grants exclusive license rights to BoeingPublished Date:August 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. Published Date: August 2, 2010 UI-7 explores new National Petascale Computing FacilityPublished Date:July 2, 2010 NCSA's John Melchi gives UI-7 viewers a tour of the new National Petascale Computing Facility, which will house the massive 10-petaflop Blue Waters supercomputer and other advanced computing systems. Published Date: July 2, 2010 Blue Waters: Awesome Power, Awesome EfficiencyPublished Date:June 24, 2010 John Rath attends the Building the Data Center of the Future 2nd Biennial Workshop and reports on the new National Petascale Computing Facility and the Blue Waters supercomputer it will house in 2011. Published Date: June 24, 2010 Dunning discusses Blue Waters with local PBS stationPublished Date:June 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. Published Date: June 22, 2010 Marc Snir, key member of Blue Waters team, named HPC Rock StarPublished Date:June 17, 2010 InsideHPC has named Marc Snir this month's HPC Rock Star. Snir is the Michael Faiman and Saburo Muroga Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a co-principal investigator on the Blue Waters project. He also co-directs the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center at Illinois. Published Date: June 17, 2010 Take a peek inside new Blue Waters homePublished Date:June 15, 2010 Although the world’s largest supercomputer won’t be completed until 2011, its future home, the National Petascale Computing Facility at 1725 S. Oak St., will be open to the public for tours Thursday (June 17) from 4 to 6 p.m. Published Date: June 15, 2010 Dunning comments on speeds-ups possible with specialized chipsPublished Date:June 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. Published Date: June 14, 2010 NCSA's John Melchi talks to Central Illinois BusinessPublished Date:June 9, 2010 John Melchi, leader of NCSA's Administration Directorate, talks to Central Illinois Business about NCSA and the coming Blue Waters supercomputer. Published Date: June 9, 2010 Dunning shows off POWER7 node at ISCPublished Date:June 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) Published Date: June 2, 2010 ISGTW selects NCSA traffic visualization as image of the weekPublished Date:May 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. Published Date: May 26, 2010 GigaOm enjoys NCSA unboxingPublished Date:May 25, 2010 GigaOm enjoys NCSA's unboxing of the IBM 780 interim system: "a lovingly shot homage to their new gear." Published Date: May 25, 2010 IBM Systems Magazine looks closer at 'workhorse' Blue Waters supercomputerPublished Date:May 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. Published Date: May 18, 2010 NCSA supercomputers help researchers reveal new details of deep earthPublished Date:May 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.
Published Date: May 10, 2010 Iowa State researchers eagerly preparing for Blue WatersPublished Date:April 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. Published Date: April 28, 2010 NCSA goes Hollywood in Hubble 3DPublished Date:April 27, 2010 NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory worked with the Space Telescope Science Institute to create scenes for the film “Hubble 3D.” Published Date: April 27, 2010 Illinois researcher Wuebbles uses NCSA supercomputers to shed light on 'global weirding'Published Date:April 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. Published Date: April 22, 2010 WIRED looks back at how NCSA Mosaic changed the worldPublished Date:April 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. Published Date: April 21, 2010 Illinois organizes virtual HASTAC conferencePublished Date:April 19, 2010 HASTAC's first virtual conference was a success, with participants using video, chat, Google Wave, YouTube and more to connect. Published Date: April 19, 2010 ICHASS provides technology know-how for Chicago walking tourPublished Date:April 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.
Published Date: April 16, 2010 NCSA to help develop Remote Data Analysis and Visualization CenterPublished Date:April 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. Published Date: April 13, 2010 Kramer, Ziebarth discuss Blue Waters projectPublished Date:March 18, 2010 NCSA's Bill Kramer and John Ziebarth from the Great Lakes Consortium are interviewed by Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres of Research, Computing & Engineering about the Blue Waters project. Published Date: March 18, 2010 CNET lauds NCSA's visualizations in Hubble 3D IMAX filmPublished Date:March 15, 2010 CNET's Daniel Terdiman praises the "powerful, prolonged digital visualizations" that NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory contributed to the Hubble 3D IMAX film. Published Date: March 15, 2010 NCSA's visualization team contributes to Hubble 3D IMAX filmPublished Date:March 11, 2010 High-resolution 3D animated visualizations created at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications take viewers on a unprecedented voyage of discovery into the wonders of the universe—galaxies, nebulae, and newborn stars—in “Hubble 3D,” a 40-minute film debuting March 19 that tells the story of the heroic repair and upgrade of the Hubble Space Telescope. Published Date: March 11, 2010 Illinois Science & Technology Coalition touts state's leadership in supercomputing, cybersecurityPublished Date:March 9, 2010 The March issue of ISTC's Catalyst newsletter touts the state's leadership in supercomputing and cybersecurity, including a spotlight on NCSA, an interview with Jim Barlow, and a look at how NCSA helps law enforcement officers investigate cybercrimes. Published Date: March 9, 2010 WICD spotlights Blue Waters supercomputer projectPublished Date:March 4, 2010 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. Published Date: March 4, 2010 InsideHPC details Dunning's House testimonyPublished Date:February 25, 2010 John West of InsideHPC gives a thoughtful review of NCSA Director Thom Dunning's Feb. 23 testimony to the House Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Research and Science Education. Published Date: February 25, 2010 Dunning testifies to House subcommittee, describes need to support science facilitiesPublished Date:February 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. Published Date: February 24, 2010 Scientists eager to use Blue Waters to improve understanding of weatherPublished Date:February 22, 2010 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. Published Date: February 22, 2010 Bill Kramer: One of NCSA's HPC rock starsPublished Date:February 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." Published Date: February 15, 2010 CNET takes a closer look at POWER7, Blue WatersPublished Date:February 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. Published Date: February 9, 2010 IBM launches POWER7 processorPublished Date:February 8, 2010 IBM launches the eight-core POWER7 processor, which will make up the sustained-petaflop Blue Waters supercomputer, and is claiming bragging righhs over its ability to run four threads per core. Published Date: February 8, 2010 Chicago exhibit features artistic collaboration between NCSA, (art)nPublished Date:February 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. Published Date: February 5, 2010 Globe and Mail hails Blue Waters as 'beast of a computer'Published Date:February 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. Published Date: February 3, 2010 Former NCSA'er Ping Fu to be State of the Union guestPublished Date:January 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. Published Date: January 27, 2010 Hospital pain management transformed by algorithm approachPublished Date:January 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. Published Date: January 15, 2010 Scientists lining up to use Blue Waters supercomputerPublished Date:January 12, 2010 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. Published Date: January 12, 2010 NCSA's Slagell to speak March 6 at SkepchicampPublished Date:January 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. Published Date: January 11, 2010 Illinois team develops system for real-time interaction in virtual spacePublished Date:December 17, 2009 NCSA's Peter Bajscy leads a project to develop a “tele-immersive environment” that captures, transmits, and displays three-dimensional movement in real time. Published Date: December 17, 2009 Green Data Center Blog takes closer look at Petascale Computing FacilityPublished Date:December 7, 2009 The Green Data Center Blog takes a close look at the Petascale Computing Facility, which is now under construction at the University of Illinois and will house the sustained-petaflop Blue Waters supercomputer. Published Date: December 7, 2009 Getting the bugs out of giving medsPublished Date:December 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. Published Date: December 7, 2009 CNET takes a closer look at IBM's Power7 processor, which will build Blue Waters supercomputerPublished Date:December 7, 2009 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. Published Date: December 7, 2009 IT Jungle shares details of Blue Waters' Power7 hardwarePublished Date:November 30, 2009 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. Published Date: November 30, 2009 Bill Gropp wins Inaugural HPC Community Leadership AwardPublished Date:November 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. Published Date: November 18, 2009 Institute for Chemistry Literacy Through Computational Science featured in NSF showcasePublished Date:November 12, 2009 NCSA's ICLCS was featured in the NSF's educational technology showcase at Capitol Hill.
Published Date: November 12, 2009 Institute for Chemistry Literacy through Computational Science helps teachers adopt new techniquesPublished Date:November 9, 2009 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. Published Date: November 9, 2009 Petascale Computing Facility construction ahead of schedulePublished Date:November 9, 2009 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. Published Date: November 9, 2009 LSU team receives NSF funds to investigate gamma-ray burstsPublished Date:October 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. Published Date: October 19, 2009 Relativity researchers receive PRAC award to prepare for Blue WatersPublished Date:October 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. Published Date: October 19, 2009 LSU team receives PRAC grant to prepare astrophysics codes for Blue WatersPublished Date:October 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. Published Date: October 19, 2009 NCSA a key player in partnership with Cyprus InstitutePublished Date:October 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. Published Date: October 8, 2009 NCSA resources aid superconductor researchPublished Date:October 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. Published Date: October 6, 2009 Klaus Schulten discusses role of GPUs and NCSA's Lincoln in studying photosynthesisPublished Date:October 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. Published Date: October 1, 2009 Former NCSA'er Andreessen talks about developing MosaicPublished Date:September 28, 2009 The Business Insider's Andreessen: The Early Days features former NCSA'er Marc Andreessen discussing the development of Mosaic at NCSA. Published Date: September 28, 2009 Power7 puts pedal to the metalPublished Date:September 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. Published Date: September 21, 2009 Computing in Science & Engineering focuses on petascalePublished Date:September 9, 2009 NCSA director Thom Dunning guest edited a special issue of Computing in Science & Engineering. The September/October issue also features William Gropp, Klaus Schulten, Klevin Droegemeier, and other experts on the challenges and potential of petascaling scientific computing. Published Date: September 9, 2009 IBM Power7 to take the lead in multicore processor speed?Published Date:August 24, 2009 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. Published Date: August 24, 2009 Power7 details to be discussed at Hot Chips conferencePublished Date:August 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.
Published Date: August 21, 2009 NCSA's Beth McKown profiled in Inside IllinoisPublished Date:August 21, 2009 A familiar face from the NCSA director's office, administrative assistant Beth McKown, is spotlighted in the latest issue of Inside Illinois! Published Date: August 21, 2009 I-CHASS, NICS offer computing time for humanities, arts, and social science projectsPublished Date:August 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. Published Date: August 18, 2009 Summer course helps students across the country tackle many-core processorsPublished Date:August 13, 2009 Graduate students from various disciplines and institutions across the country are improving their many-core programming skills this week during a summer school course offered by the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering. Published Date: August 13, 2009 IBM releases more details on Power7 chips that will make up Blue WatersPublished Date:July 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. Published Date: July 24, 2009 NCSA, Stanford researchers speed chemistry simulation with GPUsPublished Date:July 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. Published Date: July 21, 2009 Blue Waters co-PI Gropp among those honored for PETSc developmentPublished Date:July 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. Published Date: July 21, 2009 $60 million for Petascale Computing Facility included in Illinois construction planPublished Date:July 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. Published Date: July 14, 2009 Darkstrand CTO blogs Private Sector Program annual meetingPublished Date:July 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. Published Date: July 2, 2009 Extending the shelf life of antibody drugsPublished Date:July 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. Published Date: July 1, 2009 Obama's 2010 budget provides crucial research fundingPublished Date:June 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. Published Date: June 19, 2009 3D Conferencing System Allows for Virtual Light Saber DuelsPublished Date:June 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. Published Date: June 19, 2009 Coming: Sustained petascale computing for open sciencePublished Date:June 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. Published Date: June 17, 2009 NCSA spin-off RiverGlass named 'Cool Vendor'Published Date:June 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. Published Date: June 15, 2009 Sun-Times columnist Andy Ihnatko wowed by NCSA and its storage operationsPublished Date:April 29, 2009 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. Published Date: April 29, 2009 Chromosome breakpoints contribute to genetic variationPublished Date:April 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. Published Date: April 27, 2009 Cox leads panel on new arts mediaPublished Date:April 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. Published Date: April 25, 2009 NCSA tarpit captures ConfickerPublished Date:April 15, 2009 This Security Now! podcast explains how the Conficker worm was captured in a "tarpit" at NCSA. Listen to the podcast (NCSA is mentioned approximately 2 minutes in) or read the transcript. Published Date: April 15, 2009 Chancellor's Office spotlights Blue WatersPublished Date:April 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. Published Date: April 15, 2009 Chemists discuss opportunities and challenges of petascale computingPublished Date:April 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. Published Date: April 14, 2009 NCSA intern's team takes top prize in business competitionPublished Date:April 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.
Published Date: April 11, 2009 Astronomer/artist blends NCSA images with music at Adler PlanetariumPublished Date:March 19, 2009 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. Published Date: March 19, 2009 Illinois eDREAM to promote digital arts mediaPublished Date:March 18, 2009 The new Emerging Digital Research and Education Institute (eDream) seeks to promote digital arts media by fostering research, education, and public engagement. Published Date: March 18, 2009 Illinois researchers use NCSA computing power to analyze economyPublished Date:March 16, 2009 Illinois researchers Anne Villamil, Stefan Krasa and Jamsheed Shorishare using NCSA resources to model the impact of economic policies on small businesses. Published Date: March 16, 2009 NCSA's Mosaic played key role in explosion of the World Wide WebPublished Date:March 13, 2009 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. Published Date: March 13, 2009 NCSA's Donna Cox launches eDREAM digital arts institutePublished Date:March 9, 2009 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. Published Date: March 9, 2009 IBM touts petaflop breakthough in short videoPublished Date:March 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. Published Date: March 5, 2009 NetworkWorld wonders: What would you run on the Blue Waters petascale supercomputer?Published Date:March 4, 2009 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. Published Date: March 4, 2009 NCSA's MAEviz software among finalists for Eclipse technology awardsPublished Date:March 4, 2009 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. Published Date: March 4, 2009 Researchers describe the value of supercomputing at AAASPublished Date:February 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. Published Date: February 17, 2009 Dunning discusses Blue Waters, petascale computing power at AAASPublished Date:February 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. Published Date: February 14, 2009 Jim Barlow describes how NCSA, FBI collaborated to catch hackerPublished Date:January 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. Published Date: January 14, 2009 Blue Waters and Petascale Computing Facility to improve efficiencyPublished Date:December 8, 2008 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. Published Date: December 8, 2008 NCSA's Dunning attends nanotechnology conference in JordanPublished Date:December 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.
Published Date: December 1, 2008 NCSA user David Baker earns Sackler PrizePublished Date:December 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.
Published Date: December 1, 2008 NCSA's Randy Butler describes Palantir framework for cybercrime investigationPublished Date:November 12, 2008 Randy Butler, co-lead of the NCSA's Cybersecurity Directorate, describes Palantir, a Web-based collaborative environment designed for cybercrime investigations.
Published Date: November 12, 2008 Illinois celebrates construction of Petascale Computing Facility for Blue WatersPublished Date:November 6, 2008 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.
Published Date: November 6, 2008 Illinois marks start of construction on Petascale Computing Facility (mp3 audio file)Published Date:November 6, 2008 Published Date: November 6, 2008 Illinois breaks ground on Petascale Computing Facility to house Blue WatersPublished Date:November 5, 2008 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.
Published Date: November 5, 2008 Chronicle of Higher Education spotlights construction of Petascale Computing FacilityPublished Date:November 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.
Published Date: November 3, 2008 Science teacher describes benefits gained from Institute for Chemistry Literacy through Computational SciencePublished Date:October 28, 2008 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.
Published Date: October 28, 2008 NCSA is part of Illinois coalition competing for Lincoln collectionPublished Date:October 15, 2008 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.
Published Date: October 15, 2008 Christian Science Monitor cites TeraGrid as part of e-science growthPublished Date:October 9, 2008 The Christian Science Monitor cites the TeraGrid as one example of the growth of e-science. Published Date: October 9, 2008 Illinois researchers to lead NSF Center for the Physics of the Living CellPublished Date:September 23, 2008 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.
Published Date: September 23, 2008 NCSA fellow Mark Neubauer participates in Large Hadron Collider projectPublished Date:September 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.
Published Date: September 10, 2008 Crain's Chicago Business spotlights NCSA spin-off RiverGlassPublished Date:September 8, 2008 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.
Published Date: September 8, 2008 Illinois named most wired campus by PC MagazinePublished Date:September 3, 2008 Published Date: September 3, 2008 Von Welch and Randy Butler discuss cybersecurity projects under way at NCSAPublished Date:August 22, 2008 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.
Published Date: August 22, 2008 NCSA part of consortium that may win Lincoln collectionPublished Date:July 20, 2008 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.
Published Date: July 20, 2008 Illinois students help design energy-saving facility for Blue Waters petascale computerPublished Date:July 15, 2008 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.
Published Date: July 15, 2008 U.S. News highlights how NCSA resources help identify compounds that might fight avian fluPublished Date:July 14, 2008 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. Published Date: July 14, 2008 NCSA's John Towns discusses the TeraGrid with Federal News RadioPublished Date:July 11, 2008 Published Date: July 11, 2008 Financial Times heralds role of NCSA Mosaic in democratizing the WebPublished Date:July 7, 2008 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.
Published Date: July 7, 2008 NCSA resources help San Diego researchers identify compounds that might fight avian fluPublished Date:July 3, 2008 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. Published Date: July 3, 2008 NCSA aids analysis of Illinois early-childhood care and education servicesPublished Date:June 30, 2008 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.
Published Date: June 30, 2008 Girls investigate the universe through GEMS program at NCSAPublished Date:June 25, 2008 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. Published Date: June 25, 2008 MAEviz used to analyze potential New Madrid quakePublished Date:June 20, 2008 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.
Published Date: June 20, 2008 NCSA's Yong Liu helps organize benefit for victims of China quakePublished Date:June 19, 2008 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.
Published Date: June 19, 2008 NCSA's Abe lands at #23 on Top500 list with Windows runPublished Date:June 19, 2008 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. Published Date: June 19, 2008 IBM, NCSA united in strong partnership to develop Blue WatersPublished Date:May 23, 2008 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.
Published Date: May 23, 2008 Andreessen recalls Mosaic as 'renegade project'Published Date:April 24, 2008 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.
Published Date: April 24, 2008 IBM's Turek calls U of I 'standard bearer for POWER-based supercomputing'Published Date:April 9, 2008 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."
Published Date: April 9, 2008 IBM unveils water-cooled POWER6, precursor to Blue WatersPublished Date:April 8, 2008 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.
Published Date: April 8, 2008 NCSA powers scientific breakthroughs, technological innovationsPublished Date:March 1, 2008 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.
Published Date: March 1, 2008 IACAT researcher Hwu says the future of scalable computing rests with GPUsPublished Date:February 27, 2008 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.
Published Date: February 27, 2008 Todd Martinez, NCSA put PS3 processor to work for sciencePublished Date:February 16, 2008 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.
Published Date: February 16, 2008 Burton gives keynote at Lincoln symposiumPublished Date:February 3, 2008 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.
Published Date: February 3, 2008 NCSA spin-off RiverGlass attracts $2.4 million in venture fundingPublished Date:January 21, 2008 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.
Published Date: January 21, 2008 Nature spotlights Schulten's NAMD acceleration workPublished Date:January 17, 2008 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.
Published Date: January 17, 2008 Looking back at the impact of MosaicPublished Date:December 24, 2007 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."
Published Date: December 24, 2007 Dunning's talk on 'The Challenge of Petascale Computing' citedPublished Date:December 21, 2007 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."
Published Date: December 21, 2007 NCSA's SAN big and growing biggerPublished Date:December 18, 2007 Byte & Switch examines how NCSA's SAN is likely to grow to nearly 10 petabytes over the next few years. More information on the NCSA is available online.
Published Date: December 18, 2007 NCSA's Perfsuite named as tool no admin should be withoutPublished Date:December 18, 2007 Linux Magazine includes NCSA's Perfsuite on its list of "tools no cluster admin should be without."
Published Date: December 18, 2007 Thom Dunning weighs in on supercomputing for the massesPublished Date:December 13, 2007 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.
Published Date: December 13, 2007 NCSA user Carlos Pantano earns NSF Early Career AwardPublished Date:November 1, 2007 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.
Published Date: November 1, 2007 RENCI, NCSA collaboration wins conference awardPublished Date:October 24, 2007 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.
Published Date: October 24, 2007 Review examines fresh perspective provided by 'The Age of Lincoln'Published Date:October 14, 2007 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."
Published Date: October 14, 2007 Tribune review praises Burton's 'nuanced, engaging' reappraisal of 'The Age of Lincoln'Published Date:October 13, 2007 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.
Published Date: October 13, 2007 NCSA Mosaic hailed as one of the 16 greatest moments in Web historyPublished Date:October 4, 2007 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.
Published Date: October 4, 2007 CIO magazine recalls impact of MosaicPublished Date:October 1, 2007 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."
Published Date: October 1, 2007 Burton to be interviewed for C-SPAN 2's Book TVPublished Date:September 18, 2007 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.
Published Date: September 18, 2007 Former NCSA fellow earns NSF CAREER awardPublished Date:August 31, 2007 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.
Published Date: August 31, 2007 NCSA assists with multimedia theater group's latest projectPublished Date:August 29, 2007 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.
Published Date: August 29, 2007 NCSA CyberCollaboratory thrives on open sourcePublished Date:August 23, 2007 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.
Published Date: August 23, 2007 Vernon Burton awarded Heartland Prize for 'The Age of Lincoln'Published Date:August 23, 2007 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.
Published Date: August 23, 2007 FBI launches cybersecurity projectPublished Date:August 20, 2007 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.
Published Date: August 20, 2007 NCSA helps Illinois researchers analyze bird song dataPublished Date:August 5, 2007 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.
Published Date: August 5, 2007 NCSA honors educators for classroom use of videoconferencingPublished Date:August 1, 2007 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.
Published Date: August 1, 2007 NCSA alum Andreessen sells Opsware to HPPublished Date:July 26, 2007 Former NCSA employee and University of Illinois alumnus Marc Andreessen has sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion.
Published Date: July 26, 2007 NCSA's Burton publishes reinterpretation of 'The Age of Lincoln'Published Date:July 15, 2007 A new book by Vernon Burton, director of the Illinois Center for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, offers a major reinterpretation of "The Age of Lincoln." "I believe that to understand him, you have to understand his southern roots," says Burton.
Published Date: July 15, 2007 TG Daily tours NCSA's machine roomPublished Date:July 2, 2007 TG Daily reporter Rick Hodgin toured NCSA's facility and was impressed by the computing power and staff expertise he encountered.
Published Date: July 2, 2007 NCSA's Abe debuts at #8 on Top500 listPublished Date:June 28, 2007 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.
Published Date: June 28, 2007 TeraGrid: Welcome to the world's largest supercomputing gridPublished Date:June 26, 2007 "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.
Published Date: June 26, 2007 Grant to tame unstructured data for researchPublished Date:June 6, 2007 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.
Published Date: June 6, 2007 NCSA, Library Science Get Mellon Grant for Humanities ResearchPublished Date:June 1, 2007 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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