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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.

Great Lakes Consortium awards time on Blue Waters supercomputer

Nine research teams selected to use most powerful supercomputer on university campus.

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.

Watch the 2017 NCSA Blue Waters Symposium presentations

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.