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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.

2019 Fall webinars

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

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.

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.

In the past

Hours

Jobs Started

11401

Jobs Queued

9027

Jobs Completed

7737

TOTAL COMPUTING POWER DELIVERED

Since Blue Waters went into production on March 28, 2013, it has provided 31.5 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:1390) PI: Paul Morin, University of Minnesota	XE	631552
Computational investigation of drought-resistance in plants (Jobs:2746) PI: Diwakar Shukla, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	XK	59376
Realistic Accretion Dynamics of Black Hole Binaries Approaching Merger (Jobs:2) PI: Manuela Campanelli, Rochester Institute of Technology	XE	36800
Geomagnetic Secular Variation Forecast with Ensemble Kalman-filter Data Assimilation System (Jobs:5) PI: Nikolaos Pavlis, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency	XE	640
How Amphotericin, the antifungal drug of last resort, captures sterols: the good and the bad? (Jobs:2) PI: Taras Pogorelov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	XK	3200