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Blue Waters studies geomagnetism

Dr. Weijia Kuang from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is using Blue Waters to gain insights into the inner reaches of the Earth.

NCSA/NGA to map the Earth

NCSA will receive $11.1 million in initial funding from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to fundamentally change the way the Earth is mapped.

Blue Waters Professor awarded $3.3 million for DOE project

Kaiyu Guan, a Blue Waters professor at NCSA, and his research team have been awarded a grant to measure carbon emissions in bioenergy crops.

Blue Waters models lung airflow

Biologists are learning that lungs in vertebrates seem to evolve and adapt to the environment. But there is still much to learn, and NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer is enabling those discoveries.

In the past

Hours

Jobs Started

1427

Jobs Queued

2007

Jobs Completed

1284

TOTAL COMPUTING POWER DELIVERED

Since Blue Waters went into production on March 28, 2013, it has provided 31.9 billion core - hours to scientists and engineers across the country .

LARGEST JOBS CURRENTLY RUNNING

Jobs are Aggregated by Project

Science Group	Node Type	Cores
Petascale World Topography Production (Jobs:132) PI: Paul Morin, University of Minnesota	XE	391840
Computational investigation of drought-resistance in plants (Jobs:618) PI: Diwakar Shukla, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	XK	9888
Estimating near-real-time surface radiation over CONUS (Jobs:19) PI: Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	XE	91200
Molecular Origin of Drug Selectivity in Human Cannabinoid Receptors (Jobs:29) PI: Diwakar Shukla, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	XE	928
Antibiotic Resistance Mechanism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Jobs:9) PI: Paul Hergenrother, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	XK	2304