NCSA in the News

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.