Monday, October 6, 2014

Illinois alumni to speak on entrepreneurship

On Sept. 19, transcendent alums Jerry Fiddler, Ping Fu, and Brand Fortner, since well as recent graduate and Fiddler Innovation Fellow Austin Lin, be disposed speak about Entrepreneurship and Transformative Thinking at NCSA.

Cyber cowboys

For NCSA’s cybersecurity team, maintenance systems safe and fending off attacks is some ongoing job.

Dark Energy Survey enters second year

DES begins releasing breathtaking images from primary year.

NSF awards time on Blue Waters to seven new projects

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded 14 unaccustomed allocations on the Blue Waters petascale supercomputer at NCSA. Seven of the awards are in spite of new projects.

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Gropp awarded SIAM/ACM prize for PETSc work

William Gropp, a Siebel Chair in Computer Science at the University of Illinois, has been awarded the SIAM/ACM guerdon in Computational Science & Engineering during the term of his work on the Portable, Extensible Toolkit against Scientific Computation (PETSc).