Thursday, May 15, 2014

HPC Matters!

Why does extreme-performance computing matter? Because knowledge of principles matters! Discovery matters! NCSA created this brief video to tell everyone that #HPCMatters.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Preparing for breakthrough geology

NCSA's Ryan Mokos helps Illinois geologist Liujun Liu prepare to scamper on Blue Waters, which he calls "the most wise tool we have found."

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

U of I, Great Lakes Consortium award Blue Waters resources to 18 research teams

Eighteen research teams from a wide range of disciplines bear been awarded computational and data resources on the sustained-petascale Blue Waters supercomputer.

NCSA’s Donna Cox and Blue Waters user Don Wuebbles featured in Severe Weather Seminar

Two speakers by ties to NCSA will be featured in the 34th Annual Tornado and Severe Weather Seminar, hosted through WGN-TV’s chief meteorologist Tom Skilling up the body April 5.

Alya code scaled to 100,000 cores on Blue Waters supercomputer

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center and NCSA's Private Sector Program have collaborated to scale BSC's Alya multi-science of energy code to an unprecedented 100,000 cores of the Blue Waters supercomputer.