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Blue Waters simulates flu virus

Rommie Amaro, a Blue Waters researcher from UC-San Diego, has used Blue Waters to simulate movement in the viral envelope of the flu virus.

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 to combat COVID-19

The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, which spans multiple research institutions and private companies, seeks to apply computational resources and artificial intelligence to initially study COVID-19 and ways to curb its spread.

Blue Waters allocates 21M node hours

Over $13 million worth of allocations in Blue Waters supercomputer awards have been given to researchers and faculty at Illinois studying a diversity of topics.

In the past

Hours

Jobs Started

1350

Jobs Queued

1708

Jobs Completed

1308

TOTAL COMPUTING POWER DELIVERED

Since Blue Waters went into production on March 28, 2013, it has provided 32.6 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:214) PI: Paul Morin, University of Minnesota	XE	623936
Computational investigation of drought-resistance in plants (Jobs:468) PI: Diwakar Shukla, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	XK	8640
Molecular Mechanism of Precision Polymers as Novel Inhibitors of Beta-Amyloid Fibril Formation (Jobs:1) PI: Jeffery S. Moore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	XK	1024
Molecular Origin of Drug Selectivity in Human Cannabinoid Receptors (Jobs:14) PI: Diwakar Shukla, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	XE	448
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering for Active Materials and Interfaces in Chemical Fuel Production (Jobs:1) PI: Narayana Aluru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	XE	64