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New research accurately predicts Australian wheat yield months before harvest

A new study published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology shows machine-learning methods can accurately predict wheat yield for the country two months before the crop matures.

NCSA scientist employs supercomputer simulations in Ohio gerrymandering case

Dr. Wendy K. Tam Cho, a professor at the University of Illinois and a Senior Research Scientist at NCSA, was called as an expert witness in a case on electoral redistricting filed in Ohio’s Sixth District Court.

Four Ph.D. students selected as Blue Waters Graduate Fellows

Now in its sixth year, the Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship program has announced this year's cadre of fellows.

NCSA Student Spotlight: Sarah Habib

The junior studying engineering physics at Illinois joined the INCLUSION-REU program and NCSA Gravity Group, leading her publishing her work in three academic papers.

Can You Imagine: Helping Research Reach New Heights with AI?

Vlad Kindratenko helps researchers refine the tools and applications that they use to make discoveries and gain insights with high-performance computing.

Blue Waters and XSEDE user Charles Gammie contributes to M87 black hole image

Using simulations made on the Blue Waters supercomputer and XSEDE resources, University of Illinois astrophysicist Charles Gammie and his research team enabled the first-ever picture of a black hole, captured last week.

Blue Waters user Claire Porter wins NOAA David Johnson Award for ArcticDEM Research

Porter and the ArcticDEM team used the Blue Waters supercomputer to create digital elevation models to map the Arctic, the Antarctic, and soon, the entire world.

Can You Imagine: Surveying the Night Sky in the Era of Big Data?

Imagine being able to map the night sky five times more frequently than our current human capability.

Two NCSA affiliates receive NSF CAREER Awards

Blue Waters professors Kaiyu Guan and Mattia Gazzola have each received an NSF CAREER award, a prestigious achievement for young researchers across the United States.

Registration now open for the 2019 Petascale Computing Institute

The institute, which runs from August 19-23, aims to help researchers scale their code for leadership-class computing systems.

38 Illinois research groups awarded time on Blue Waters leadership supercomputer

This round of allocations provides over 17 million node-hours, equivalent to over half a billion core hours, and is valued at over $10.5 million, helping Illinois researchers push the boundaries of innovation and frontier science discovery.