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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

NCSA processes data for the Dark Energy Survey in the most accurate measurement of dark matter structure in the universe

New result rivals precision of cosmic microwave background measurements, supports view that dark matter and dark energy make up most of the cosmos.

Blue Waters intern visualizes a career in app development

Recent Illinois grad credits NCSA Blue Waters internship in developing augmented reality app, desire for PhD.

UI researchers use supercomputer to develop techniques for more accurate evolutionary trees

Tandy Warnow, a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is using NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer to design methods of creating more accurate phylogenies.