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NCSA collaborates with NGA to create the world’s most powerful geospatial system

NCSA will receive $11.1 million in initial funding from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to fundamentally change the way the Earth is mapped.

The fragile balance of the most productive ecosystems

Using NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer to study two estuaries in New Hampshire changed the trajectory of Salme Cook’s research and yielded significant findings.

Simulating hurricanes with Blue Waters

Ryan Sriver, a researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is using a powerful supercomputer to figure out the effects of a changing climate on the frequency and intensity of hurricanes.

Black hole simulation solves a mystery about their accretion disks

Scientists conducted the most detailed simulations of a black hole to date using a custom code and the GPUs on Blue Waters. A number of theoretical predictions regarding accretion disks have finally been validated.

NCSA’s Blue Waters Petascale Computing Hackathon now accepting applications

The deadline to apply is July 8, 2019.

NCSA Student Spotlight: Adam Rebei

High school student begins building astronomical research portfolio before he’s old enough to drive.

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.