In November of 2024, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) launched the DeltaAI supercomputer. The system, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through nearly $30 million in awards, is designed to advance data and memory-intensive AI and HPC research applications – but is also meant to support anyone needing to use GPUs, even those running PyTorch who need just one GPU. The system utilizes the GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, which incorporates NVIDIA’s new Grace processor and H100 GPU, affording the supercomputer approximately 30 petaflops of double precision and 900 petaflops of half precision. In comparison to the average laptop, which might have several hundred gigaflops of double […]

The 24-minute scientific documentary that was released this summer about the dynamics of the sun may soon be coming to a planetarium near you. “Solar Superstorms” is a new documentary that features data-driven visualizations that have been computed on the giant new supercomputing initiative, Blue Waters, based at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The documentary deputed on June 30th, 2015 at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum in Baton Rouge and has since then been appearing in over a dozen planetariums around the world. “Solar Superstorms” is part of project CADENS (Centrality of Digitally Enabled Science). CADENS is a National Science Foundation […]