News

NCSA announces GECAT funding of two international seed projects

Blue Waters’ international collaboration program opens doors for researchers in Puerto Rico, Barcelona, Shanghai and beyond.

NCSA wins best visualization award at Supercomputing ‘17

Advanced Visualization Lab wins first and second place in best of category

NCSA wins Top Supercomputing Achievement and a Best Use of HPC in 2017 HPCwire Editors' Choice Awards

NCSA receives two honors in annual HPCwire awards recognizing leaders in the global HPC community.

NCSA releases 2017 Blue Waters Project Annual Report detailing innovative research and scientific breakthroughs

Blue Waters has accelerated research and impact across an enormous range of science and engineering disciplines throughout its more than 4-year history covered by the report series. This year is no different.

NCSA at SC17: It’s Time to Change the World Again

NCSA advocating for support of world-changing research at largest annual supercomputing event.

With help from XSEDE, ArcticDEM completes Presidential Order

XSEDE connects people and resources to accelerate national initiative.

NCSA calls on HTCondor partnership to process data for DES

The images from the Dark Energy camera were processed using the Dark Energy Survey data reduction pipelines at NCSA using HTCondor.

Blue Waters supercomputer research call for proposals

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

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.