NCSA in the News

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.