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Illinois faculty and staff allocations

Each year more than 3 million node-hours are allocated to projects for Illinois campus. The deadline for submitting a proposal is September 15, 2017.

Blue Waters intern visualizes a career in app development

Recent Illinois grad credits NCSA Blue Waters internship in developing augmented reality app, desire for PhD.

Researchers use Blue Waters to develop more accurate evolutionary trees

Tandy Warnow, a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is using NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer to design methods of creating more accurate phylogenies.

Blue Waters helps DES map the skies

Using Blue Waters, new result rivals precision of cosmic microwave background measurements, supports view that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the cosmos.