NCSA Reveals Promising Diagnostics for Detecting Latent Tuberculosis
Researchers Predict Crop Yields With Supercomputers and Satellites
What if we could predict, in real-time, crop productivity and water use for the entire United States corn belt? Using the help of NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer, Kaiyu Guan, principal investigator on the Geophysical Research Letters study, and assistant professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Blue Waters…
NCSA Brings Dark Energy Survey Data to Science Community into 2021
After scanning in depth about a quarter of the southern skies for six years and cataloguing hundreds of millions of distant galaxies, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) finished taking data January 9, 2019. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois will continue refining and serving this data for use by scientists into 2021. The…
University of Illinois Researchers Use Blue Waters to Make New DNA Discoveries
Scientists have long known that double-stranded DNA can be unwound into single-stranded DNA by molecular motor proteins called helicases, just like pulling a zipper. But researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered that the same machinery, after changing its shape, can also put the unwound DNA back together into double-stranded DNA. This switching between DNA rewinding…
Researchers Use Blue Waters to Study Interactions Between Musculoskeletal Systems and Environments
Take a dead fish, tie it to a string, and put it in a tank of water. Then, slowly start moving the water through the tank, swirling it faster and faster. Something seemingly miraculous happens—our scaled friend begins to swim. No, it’s not a mysterious rising from the dead. Instead, this “zombie” fish is due…
NCSA Visualization of Powerful Joplin, Mo. Storm Gives New Insights Into Tornado Formation
A collaboration between David Bock of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications’ (NCSA) Data Analysis and Visualization group and Brian Jewett of the University of Illinois has led to a meticulously-crafted visualization of a 2011 tornado that brought great destruction to Joplin, Missouri. By looking into this visualization, researchers have been able to gather vital information about storm behavior,…
NCSA Allocates Over $2.4 Million in New Blue Waters Supercomputer Awards to Illinois Researchers
Fifteen research teams at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been allocated computation time on the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) sustained-petascale Blue Waters supercomputer after applying in the Fall of 2017. These allocations range from 75,000 to 582,000 node-hours of compute time over either six months or one year, and altogether total nearly four million node-hours…