University of Illinois Archives - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC https://insidehpc.com/tag/university-of-illinois/ At the Convergence of HPC, AI and Quantum Wed, 05 Jun 2024 18:48:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 57143778 NSF Awards Additional $9.8M to NCSA for Delta, DeltaAI HPC https://insidehpc.com/2024/06/nsf-awards-additional-9-8m-to-ncsa-for-delta-deltaai-hpc/ https://insidehpc.com/2024/06/nsf-awards-additional-9-8m-to-ncsa-for-delta-deltaai-hpc/#respond Wed, 05 Jun 2024 14:33:16 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=94184

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Illinois was recently awarded $4.9 million of supplemental funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) for Delta and an additional $4.9 million for DeltaAI to expand the potential capabilities of the soon-to-launch system by nearly 50 percent. NCSA originally received nearly $25 million from NSF in 2023 to deploy and operate DeltaAI, an advanced […]

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]]> https://insidehpc.com/2024/06/nsf-awards-additional-9-8m-to-ncsa-for-delta-deltaai-hpc/feed/ 0 94184 HPC News Bytes 20240422: New HPC Installs, the State of AI, Bitcoin Halving, Argonne-UICs’ Crabtree Institute https://insidehpc.com/2024/04/hpc-news-bytes-20240422-new-hpc-installs-the-state-of-ai-bitcoin-halving-argonne-uics-crabtree-institute/ https://insidehpc.com/2024/04/hpc-news-bytes-20240422-new-hpc-installs-the-state-of-ai-bitcoin-halving-argonne-uics-crabtree-institute/#respond Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:07:00 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=93896

A good spring moring to you! Here's a rapid (6:09) route through recent news from HPC-AI, including: new supercomputers installed at Los Alamos and France-CEA, Stanford AI Index Report released on the state of AI....

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]]> https://insidehpc.com/2024/04/hpc-news-bytes-20240422-new-hpc-installs-the-state-of-ai-bitcoin-halving-argonne-uics-crabtree-institute/feed/ 0 93896 NCSA Facilitating Access to IBM Quantum Computing for Univ. of Illinois Researchers https://insidehpc.com/2023/02/ncsa-facilitating-access-to-ibm-quantum-computing-for-univ-of-illinois-researchers/ Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:24:23 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=91057

Urbana-Champaign, IL — The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has released a story on improved access to IBM Quantum computing systems for UofI researchers through the Chicago Quantum Exchange. NCSA is assisting by coupling researchers with allocations to IBM quantum computing systems. “This is exciting because there is growing […]

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]]> 91057 OLCF Researchers Win R&D 100 Award for Flash-X Simulation Software https://insidehpc.com/2022/09/olcf-researchers-win-rd-100-award-for-flash-x-simulation-software/ Tue, 13 Sep 2022 20:02:48 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=90156 Oak Ridge, TN — A team that includes researchers from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility recently received a U.S. Department of Energy R&D 100 Award for their work on Flash-X, a multiphysics simulation software package with applications that include modeling the collapse and explosion of a massive star core, better known as a supernova. […]

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]]> 90156 Argonne, University Researchers Team to Make Data FAIR for AI https://insidehpc.com/2022/02/argonne-university-researchers-team-to-make-data-fair-for-ai/ Tue, 15 Feb 2022 21:06:54 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=89118

In a new study, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California San Diego, University of Minnesota, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have laid out new practices to guide the curation of high energy physics datasets that makes them more FAIR — more findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. Data is the lifeblood […]

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]]> 89118 Into HPC History: NCSA’s Blue Waters Supercomputer Ceasing Operations https://insidehpc.com/2022/01/into-hpc-history-ncsas-blue-waters-supercomputer-ceasing-operations/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:52:42 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=88912

Catching up on a development possibly missed during the holidays, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) last month announced that one of the more famous HPC systems of the past decade, the leadership-class Blue Waters supercomputer, is being decommissioned. Blue Water had its origins in 2007, when the National Science Foundation awarded $208 million […]

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]]> 88912 5 PhD Students Named New Frontiers Graduate Fellows https://insidehpc.com/2021/08/5-phd-students-named-new-frontiers-graduate-fellows/ Fri, 27 Aug 2021 14:06:19 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=88237 The New Frontiers Initiative, in collaboration with the Blue Waters Project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is pleased to announce the selection of the 2021 New Frontiers Graduate Fellows. The Graduate Fellowship program was launched in the fall of 2013 to provide PhD students with a year of support to advance their research. The program provides each […]

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]]> 88237 LLNL Names Bradley Wallin to Lead Weapons and Complex Integration https://insidehpc.com/2021/08/llnl-names-bradley-wallin-to-lead-weapons-and-complex-integration/ Tue, 10 Aug 2021 12:56:40 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=88169 Aug. 10, 2021 — Bradley Wallin has been named Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) principal associate director (PAD) for Weapons and Complex Integration (WCI), Lab Director Kimberly Budil announced today. In this role, Wallin will lead the laboratory’s nuclear weapons program in its responsibilities to support U.S. strategic deterrence by assuring the safety, security and […]

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]]> 88169 NCSA Supports Virtual Girls’ Astronomy Summer Camp Run by UofI https://insidehpc.com/2021/07/ncsa-supports-virtual-girls-astronomy-summer-camp-run-by-uofi/ Mon, 26 Jul 2021 16:17:45 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=88073 High school students got first-hand experience studying space and the Universe last week through the Girls’ Astronomy Summer Camp run by the Department of Astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NCSA’s Center for AstroPhysical Surveys (CAPS). The free camp is open to all high school students interested in astronomy. And being virtual this year, students participated […]

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]]> 88073 Duality Quantum Accelerator Accepts 6 into Inaugural Cohort https://insidehpc.com/2021/07/duality-quantum-accelerator-accepts-6-into-inaugural-cohort/ Mon, 19 Jul 2021 20:05:54 +0000 https://insidehpc.com/?p=88042 Duality, the nation’s first accelerator exclusively for quantum companies, has accepted six startups for Cohort 1. Duality is led by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago and the Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE), along with founding partners, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Argonne National Laboratory, and P33.  Launched in April 2021, Duality is the first-of-its-kind accelerator […]

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