"The ACCESS infrastructure allows us to conduct large-scale molecular dynamics simulations and to analyze the data these simulations produce with state-of-the-art computational biophysics and machine learning/artificial intelligence approaches." - George Khelashvili access-ci.org/breaking-thr...

Interested in summer research at Mayo Clinic? #Illinois undergrads have unique pathways to research at Mayo Clinic. Join us at an information session Oct. 2, 6-7 p.m., over Zoom to learn more about summer programs SURF, CRISP, & HERE. Register for Zoom details: illinois.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Director Bill Gropp and NCSA welcomed a delegation from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) last week to renew an agreement to operate a joint laboratory through December 31, 2029.

T-minus 16 hours to the launch of the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory mission – the first NASA mission led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Live viewing party and Q&A details found at the link below! #space #engineering #hpc grainger.illinois.edu/news/stories...

NCSA Research Development Coordinator Alaine Martaus recently received a 2025 SPaRC Outstanding Service Award! Congratulations on the recognition for your excellent work, Alaine!! More details on the SPaRC awards can be found here: sparc.illinois.edu/content/awards

Voting is now open for the 2025 HPCwire Readers' Choice Awards and NCSA is nominated nine times in eight different categories! HPCwire readers will have the next two weeks to vote before polls close on Friday, Oct. 3. #HPC #voteNCSA Submit your ballots here: www.hpcwire.com/2025-hpcwire...

The U.S. National Science Foundation has been investing in upgrades to a number of resource providers that allocate resources to researchers through ACCESS. Four centers recently announced additions or supplements to various #HPC, #AI and #GPU resources in high demand. access-ci.org/investing-in...

One week left to register for the third annual NCSA Research Open House! Registration deadline is September 23 for the event on Oct. 2. More details in the post below!

Registration is open for the 2025 Personalized Nutrition Innovation Day: Exploring the Nexus of Technology, Behavior and Personalized Nutrition. Taking place Oct. 28, abstracts can be submitted by Sept. 25 and registration until Oct. 1. personalizednutrition.research.illinois.edu/2025-pn-inno...

NCSA Assistant Director for Healthcare Research Maria Jaromin will be part of a panel discussing "Health Law and Artificial Intelligence" during this Friday, Sept. 19 event hosted by @law.illinois.edu. This event is free and open for anyone to attend. More details below! #AI #healthcare #law

Researchers from @cornelluniversity.bsky.social used NCSA’s #Delta supercomputer to study a protein in the blood-brain barrier. Their work could unlock better ways to deliver treatments for neurological and psychiatric diseases like Alzheimer’s and depression. ncsa.illinois.edu/breaking-bar...

University of Illinois researchers, faculty and graduate students are invited to join NCSA for a showcase Oct. 2 of cutting-edge research and services offered by the Center. Register for the third annual NCSA Research Open House by Sept. 23! More info: calendars.illinois.edu/detail/5001/...

NCSA is proud to be a partner in the NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky (SkAI) which had its official ribbon cutting ceremony yesterday in Chicago! Read more on the SkAI Institute and the role NCSA is playing in astronomical surveys and deep space exploration: www.ncsa.illinois.edu/skai-launche...

NCSA’s UI/UX team is helping researchers create intuitive user experiences for even the most complex science applications. Learn about their team and what makes great user interfaces (UI) and user experience (UX) design. ncsa.illinois.edu/designed-for...

Thanks for the shout-out, @smilepolitely.com! We're excited to start the new semester as well. #Fall2025 #HPC

University of Illinois Department of Mathematics graduate researcher Jiantong Liu reached out to Illinois Computes seeking help profiling and optimizing parallel Python code. Jiantong had already parallelized his code with the Joblib library but suspected it could still be improved.

University of Illinois researchers used ACCESS allocations on Bridges-2 at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and Delta at @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social to discover new uses for twisted bilayers. #HPC #EnablingDiscoveryForAll access-ci.org/unraveling-t...

Another win for the University of Illinois in supercomputing to help benefit society for the better.

Every summer, NCSA's Center for Digital Agriculture hosts students as part of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (CDA REU) program. Meet a few of this year’s participants and learn about the real-world projects they tackled: www.ncsa.illinois.edu/building-the... #students #undergraduates

NCSA and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were awarded a $25.8 million contract from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for high-performance computing. www.ncsa.illinois.edu/university-o...

NCSA Chief Scientist @danielskatz.org was recently quoted in an article in the Nature Computational Science journal highlighting "Threats to scientific software from over-reliance on AI code assistants." Link below 👇 #AI #software #jobs www.nature.com/articles/s43...

You may have already seen the gorgeous images coming from the first light of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. But what exactly is coming through the 8.4-meter primary lens of this giant telescope and being captured by the largest digital camera ever constructed? www.news-gazette.com/news/local/c...

🚨 Using the power of NCSA’s #Delta supercomputer, researchers are tackling atrial fibrillation—one of the most deadly heart conditions. 🔍 See what they discovered while running advanced heart simulations through NSF’s @accessforci.bsky.social program. ❤️‍🩹💻 https//www.ncsa.il...

School of Integrative Biology graduate student Grace Tan was struggling to get her code to run on certain versions of software she was working with. With help from the Illinois Computes consulting staff, Grace was able to use a container which had all the required software versions for her research.

Numerous NCSA staff members, affiliates and partners have appeared in The News-Gazette over the past month offering their expertise on the current impacts and potential future of #AI. Check out the most recent entry, also with links to the previous articles: www.news-gazette.com/news/the-fut...

Hasta la vista, PEARC. We'll be back! #PEARC25 #HPC #AI #computing

NCSA's Santiago Núñez-Corrales was co-organizer of a full-day workshop on quantum computing (QC) at the annual #PEARC25 conference. The presentation explored the latest advancements in QC and integration with high-performance computing and applications. www.ncsa.illinois.edu/shaping-the-...

Shout-out to our resource providers who joined us at #PEARC25! Always fun to see everyone in person!

NCSA represent! #PEARC25

NCSA will be in Columbus, Ohio for #PEARC25 next week! Make sure to catch us in various workshops, tutorials, presentations and panels during the PEARC Conference Series. #HPC #AI #Quantum #Computing #Research More info: emails.illinois.edu/newsletter/6...

A couple ACCESS communications staffers (based at @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social) will soon be hitting the road over the weekend to make the trek from Urbana, Illinois to Columbus, Ohio for #PEARC25! We're excited to see everyone and hear how far you've traveled. Where will you be coming from?

The U.S. National Science Foundation awarded $20 million in funding for Nexus, a next-generation, national-scale computational resource supported by #NCSA and housed at Georgia Tech. Learn about Nexus and our work on the project: www.ncsa.illinois.edu/ncsa-support...

For #EmbraceYourGeekness Day, tell us how you celebrated your geekness! For us, it’s with science, data, coding, and of course…the hat. Always the hat! 🤓🥳

NCSA is part of the nationwide @accessforci.bsky.social program, which provides thousands of participants with resources and assistance each year–at no cost to them. Learn more about ACCESS and the decades of expertise and leadership that #NCSA offers. www.ncsa.illinois.edu/partnerships...

Join the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at NCSA for an in-person presentation July 17 on "Defending #agriculture against natural and manmade threats," followed by a networking lunch. Find out more details and register via the link below! events.bizzabo.com/darpa-AGxBTO

Director Bill Gropp will retire at the end of this year after eight years at the helm at #NCSA and 18 years in service to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Read the retrospective of his lasting impact. www.ncsa.illinois.edu/a-fond-farew...

The Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation’s Rohan Marwaha will showcase the Illinois Chat platform during a Summer of AI presentation next week, demonstrating Illinois Chat, sharing use cases and talking about future plans for the platform. Learn more: calendars.illinois.edu/detail/8260?...

Carle Illinois College of Medicine student Helen Kemprecos needed more memory for her #data analysis. By using Illinois Computes Research Notebooks (ICRN), Helen had the necessary memory that she didn’t have by using only her laptop. How you can use ICRN: computes.illinois.edu/resources/ic...

Aliya Yabekova is one of #NCSA's hard-working project managers. Although she's only been with us for a little over a year, she’s already made a strong impression on all those who work with her. Learn more about Aliya in the latest edition of the Center Stage: www.ncsa.illinois.edu/ncsa-welcome...

NCSA Chief Scientist Daniel S. Katz (@danielskatz.org) talks #Parsl on the podcast Code for Thought (@code4thought.bsky.social) with host Peter Schmidt. Have a listen!

"We used our NSF ACCESS allocations on @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social Delta and SDSC’s Expanse to combine vision-language technology with grounded object detection to create much more accurate and faithful concept predictions." - Lily Weng, asst. prof. at HDSI #AI #HPC access-ci.org/ai-framework...

NCSA’s Stephen Pietrowicz works with the @vrubinobs.bsky.social Data Management team to help them handle the mountains of data they find in the night sky. Learn about the work done on the observatory and the planned 10-year optical survey of the cosmos: www.ncsa.illinois.edu/harvesting-t...

NCSA Director Bill Gropp was one of 14 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members The News-Gazette asked about the potential impact of the Trump administration's plan to "aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students." Read below 👇 www.news-gazette.com/news/illini-...

With the end of another successful academic year, NCSA’s Students Pushing INnovation (SPIN) interns reflect on their time at the Center and the research they helped advance. Learn about their SPIN experience: www.ncsa.illinois.edu/spin-closes-...

Congratulations to SPIN participant Mankeerat Singh Sidhu and #NCSA graduate student researcher Hetarth Chopra for winning first place in the 2025 Cozad New Venture Challenge! Learn about their effort to lower costs and barriers to GPU access: www.ncsa.illinois.edu/ncsa-shapes-...

John F. Reid, Executive Director of NCSA’s Center for Digital Agriculture, shares his thoughts on how advanced digital solutions are boosting productivity, reducing complexity and building the digital-ag workforce. Read the most recent edition of The Download: www.ncsa.illinois.edu/cda-executiv...

Is dark energy evolving? It may no longer be #BlackHoleWeek, but here's some more interesting #space news coming from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration. noirlab.edu/public/news/...

If you have a moment, check out this interview with NCSA Chief Scientist Daniel S. Katz where he goes in depth on the history of research software engineering. #HPC #software #engineering society-rse.org/careers/rse-...

We’re celebrating all things space with #BlackHoleWeek! NCSA’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII) recently received $1 million in funding from NASA to support the Euclid space mission, which explores mysterious dark matter and dark energy. www.ncsa.illinois.edu/caii-receive...

“Getting access to Delta, and more broadly the resources in the ACCESS program, was a godsend for us.” Researchers used #NSFfunded ACCESS allocations with @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social Delta to shorten the time between when a person goes missing and when they’re found. access-ci.org/finding-the-...