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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.

NCSA announces Spring 2018 call for Illinois allocations on Blue Waters

Applications are now open for University of Illinois researchers seeking allocations on NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer

NCSA allocates over $2.4 million in new Blue Waters supercomputer awards to Illinois researchers

Fifteen researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been awarded allocations on the Blue Waters supercomputer, totaling 582,000 node-hours.

NCSA intern accepts opportunity through Microsoft’s Autism Hiring Program

Sol Robinson, an NCSA intern with the Blue Waters project who graduated this past December, has just landed a software engineering position with Microsoft's Xbox team.

New Broadening Participation Allocations now available on Blue Waters supercomputer—apply by March 15, 2018

This new category is open to faculty and research staff at U.S. academic institutions who have not previously been a PI on a research allocation on the Blue Waters system.

Scientists use Blue Waters to understand epilepsy

Stanford University lab uses Blue Waters supercomputer to study epilepsy.

Scientists pioneer use of deep learning for real-time gravitational wave discovery

This new approach will enable astronomers to study gravitational waves using minimal computational resources, reducing time to discovery and increasing the scientific reach of gravitational wave astrophysics.

Improve your HPC skills through the Blue Waters Webinars

The free NCSA Blue Waters Webinars are designed to increase high performance computing knowledge and skills among the research community.

Dark Energy Survey data processed by NCSA now available to scientists everywhere

Data collection and processing infrastructure enables exploration of 400 million astronomical objects.

NCSA’s 2017 Year in Review

For NCSA, 2017 was so much more than just 365 days.

NCSA Faculty Fellow makes breakthrough in protein prediction using deep learning

Researchers have discovered a major breakthrough in protein structure predictions using deep learning data processed by NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer.