Former NCSA Director Dan Reed shares his experiences from his time at NCSA in a post from his blog. A great excerpt: “It was an exhilarating and exciting time. None of it would have happened without an incredible team. We built on Larry Smarr’s groundbreaking vision for a supercomputing center. We created machines, software and tools; we engaged researchers, scholars and artists; we invented the future.......
Donna Cox, Director of NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will give a talk titled, “The Unofficial History of Visualization” at 11:30 a.m. on September 15 at NCSA in the auditorium. The talk, which will stream live and is open to the public, is part of NCSA’s 30th Anniversary Celebration. Cox is a nationally renowned scientific visualization and art......
The National Science Foundation funded a partnership of 17 institutions to create the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project for five years, at $121 million. XSEDE will be the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated advanced digital resources and services in the world. Scientists and engineers use these resources and services—things like supercomputers, collections of data, and new tools—to propel scientific......
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U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) convened a celebration in honor of the second birthday of NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer, which is used by scientists and engineers across the country to tackle challenging research for the benefit of science and society. In kicking off the event, Kirk highlighted the importance of Blue Waters—and of continuing investment in high-performance computing. He pointed to China’s current #1 ranking......
