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NCSA announces 2018-19 Blue Waters Graduate Fellows

Ten graduate students from across the country have been awarded computation time, financial support, and dedicated staff expertise to advance their computational and data-intensive Ph.D. research on one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world -- Blue Waters.

Nine research teams receive GLCPC Allocations on Blue Waters

Nine research projects from researchers at member institutions of the Great Lake Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC) have been awarded over 4.3 million node-hours on NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer.

Blue Waters awards 21 Broadening Participation allocations

The Blue Waters project at NCSA has allocated over 3.7 million node-hours of computing resources to 21 research teams from across the country to broaden the diversity of the Blue Waters user community.

Satellites, supercomputers, and machine learning provide real-time crop type data

The new technique can distinguish crops with 95 percent accuracy by just two or three months after planting and well before harvest.

AI can now detect gravitational waves

NCSA researchers to present findings at American Physical Society.

NCSA group wins Original Undergrad Research Award at Engineering Open House

EOH is an annual student-led event featuring two days of exhibits and competitions that showcase the talent and ingenuity of engineering students at the University of Illinois. It is the University's largest student-run event, attracting more than 20,000 visitors annually.

SPIN-tern Daniel Gross invited to present at National Conference of Undergraduate Research

Gross's work is on peer refinement method of finite meshes. He's working with Dr. JaeHyuk Kwack, a research programmer in the Blue Waters Scientific and Applications Support Group, taking elements in the project and refining them to make higher accuracy for simulations.

Deadly handshake: Blue Waters reveals how staph bacteria cling to human cells

Combining experimental and computational approaches, Rafael Bernardi and the late Klaus Schulten from the Beckman Institute teamed up with Lukas Milles and Hermann Gaub from the LMU Physics Department to decipher the mechanism responsible for staph adhesion.

Deadline extended: Spring 2018 Illinois allocations on Blue Waters

The deadline for University of Illinois researchers seeking allocations on NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer has been extended until March 22nd

Powerful supercomputer unlocks possibilities for tinier devices and affordable DNA sequencing

Professor Jerry Bernholc of North Carolina State University is utilizing the Blue Waters supercomputer to explore graphene's applications, including its use in nanoscale electronics and electrical DNA sequencing.

NCSA researchers create one of the most reliable tools for long-term crop prediction in the U.S. Corn Belt

Blue Waters Professor Kaiyu Guan and NCSA postdoc fellow Bin Peng implemented and evaluated a new maize growth model.