Cristiana Stan
2010
Ross P. Heikes, David A. Randall, Celal S. Konor: Implementation of the Colorado State University Global Cloud Resolving Model on the NSF Blue Waters System
International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC '13); Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., Nov 9, 2013
Advances in Computational Research Transform Scientific Process and Discovery
Mar 25, 2013
Not every scientific discovery originates in the lab, or from the field. Scientists increasingly are turning to powerful new computers to perform calculations they couldn't do with earlier generation machines, and at breathtaking speed, resulting in groundbreaking computational insights across a range of research fields. .... Last October, NSF inaugurated Yellowstone, one of the world's most powerful computers, based at NCAR in Cheyenne, Wyo., and later this month will dedicate two additional supercomputers, Blue Waters, located at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Stampede, headquartered at the Texas Advanced Computing Center 9TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin. ... "The computer is excellent in permitting us to test a hypothesis," says Klaus Schulten, a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who uses large-scale computing to study the molecular assembly of biological cells, most recently HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. "But if you want to test a hypothesis, you need to have a hypothesis."
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4 more research groups using Blue Waters Early Science System
May 21, 2012
Four additional research teams have begun using the first phase of the Blue Waters sustained-petascale supercomputer to tackle challenging problems in science and engineering. They join six research groups that began using the system in March. The Blue Waters Early Science System, which is made up of 48 Cray XE6 cabinets, represents about 15 percent of the total Blue Waters computational system and is currently the most powerful computing resource available through the National Science Foundation.
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‘People’s lives are affected’
Apr 28, 2011
A scientific consensus has emerged: The Earth's climate is changing, and human behavior is accelerating that change. Climate modeling on supercomputers played a huge role in establishing those facts. It's also being used to guide strategies for blunting the negative impact that climate change will have. Multi-trillion dollar decisions, by the reckoning of the United Kingdom's Office of Climate Change, will be made based on the predictions of our planet's future that can be made by leading scientists using leading-edge supercomputers. The Blue Waters sustained-petascale system coming to NCSA is likely to be one of the supercomputers delivering those insights—thanks to partners from the Institute of Global Environment and Society's Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA), the University of Miami, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, and Colorado State University.
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