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Blue Waters supercomputer research call for proposals

The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation is soliciting research proposals, due November 15, 2017.

Fourth gravitational wave found

NCSA and Blue Waters supercomputer aid a new era for gravitational wave astrophysics.

NCSA has been nominated for HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards 2017!

The HPCwire Readers' Choice Awards nominations are out, and NCSA is excited to announce that this year we have received six different nominations. We would be honored to have your vote. Please vote today!

NCSA hosts 2017 Blue Waters Graduate Fellows

On September 19-20, 2017, NCSA will welcome the newest cadre of Blue Waters Graduate Fellows, from nine universities across the country, to the University of Illinois campus.

Blue Waters processes final installment of ArcticDEM mapping initiative

Through partnerships with NSF and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, ArcticDEM was born and this month it has released the sixth and final installment of some of the most accurate digital elevation data for 32% if the Arctic.

A new cosmic ‘lab’

Researchers linked together the Blue Waters and MIRA supercomputers, and then transferred 1.8 PB of data 1,200 miles.

Illinois faculty and staff can request time on Blue Waters supercomputer

University of Illinois faculty can submit a proposal until Sep. 15.

NCSA researcher awarded SIGHPC/Intel Computational Data and Science Fellowship

Blue Waters simulations help unravel graphene heat-transfer riddle

A team led by Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi, University of Illinois at Chicago, simulated heat transfer between grain boundaries at the atomic level, finding that when the computer ''built'' grain boundaries with different mismatch angles, the grain boundary was not just a line, it was a region of disordered atoms.

Blue Waters tours

Take a tour of Blue Waters, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world! In conjunction with Engineering Open House, you can visit the supercomputer any time between 9a and 3p on Saturday, March 14.