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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 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.

2019 Fall webinars

Four Blue Waters webinars are scheduled for the fall of 2019.

Blue Waters allocations available to 2020

NCSA will continue to provide supercomputing resources to University of Illinois researchers through the Blue Waters Project into 2020.

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

1443

Jobs Queued

1589

Jobs Completed

1140

TOTAL COMPUTING POWER DELIVERED

Since Blue Waters went into production on March 28, 2013, it has provided 30.3 billion core - hours to scientists and engineers across the country .

LARGEST JOBS CURRENTLY RUNNING

Jobs are Aggregated by Project

Science Group	Node Type	Cores
The next frontier for massive galaxies and quasars at the Cosmic Dawn (Jobs:1) PI: Tiziana Di Matteo, Carnegie Mellon University	XE	656000
Mechanism of Serotonin Transport in Human Brain (Jobs:850) PI: Diwakar Shukla, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	XK	13600
Understanding the partitioning of surface-active material in marine aerosols (Jobs:3) PI: Kimberly Prather, University of California, San Diego	XK	24576
DNS Investigation of Compressibility Effects on Separating and Reattaching Shear Layers (Jobs:1) PI: Farzad Mashayek, University of Illinois at Chicago	XE	2048
Large-scale Simulations of Biological and 2-Dimensional Heterogeneous Nano-interfaces, Nanopores and Nanochannels (Jobs:14) PI: Narayana Aluru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	XE	3200