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NSF grants 14 researchers time on Blue Waters supercomputer

The awarded allocations reached a combined total of 84.5 million node hours (2.7 billion core hour equivalents), valued at $52.4 million.

NCSA grants $2.6m in new Blue Waters supercomputer awards to Illinois researchers

NCSA has awarded 3,697,000 node hours of time on the Blue Waters supercomputer to Illinois researchers from Spring 2017 proposal submissions.

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Dark Energy Survey Data Management group lays groundwork for next survey at NCSA

NCSA will host the data facility for operations for a next-generation survey using the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.

Seeing the Beginning of Time

Seeing the Beginning of Time looks deep into space and time, featuring one of the most far-reaching scientific efforts ever undertaken to study the universe.

Orchestrated move of scientific data minimizes user impact of Blue Waters upgrade

NCSA deploys custom software to limit impact from a storage disk subsystem upgrade on Blue Waters' science.

LIGO detects gravitational waves for third time

Results confirm new population of black holes.

Ten students from across the country selected as Blue Waters Graduate Fellows

Now in its fourth year, the Blue Waters Fellowship Program provides students in a variety of disciplines substantial financial support and the opportunity to advance their research that involves high performance computing by leveraging the sustained petascale performance of the Blue Waters supercomputer.

NCSA’s Blue Waters project provides $1.08 billion direct return to Illinois’ economy

Study finds the nation's most powerful, open-science government-supported supercomputing program has positive impact on state and local economies.

Scientific impacts from just three years of Blue Waters

Highlights from an investigation and evaluation of the scientific results from the NCSA Blue Waters supercomputer system.

NCSA releases annual report highlighting scientific exploration and breakthroughs enabled by the Blue Waters Project

The report highlights a year of scientific exploration and breakthroughs enabled by the project's leadership-class supercomputer and its associated support, training, and education efforts.