NCSA Video on Demand

Will we ever run out of the need for more detailed calculation?
Paul Fussell, Boeing
Posted: July 1, 2008
Talk given: May 14, 2008

Paul Fussell, manager of the Mathematical Modeling group in Boeing Technology, discusses the aerospace giant's use of high-performance computing in a talk at NCSA's Private Sector Program Annual Meeting.

Running time: 1:05:12
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~492 MB)
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Mass Transport Modeling of Tumor Contrast Agent Enhancement
Michael Aref, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Posted: June 24, 2008
Talk given: February 27, 2008

Michael Aref, a resident at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and an assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, discusses efforts to improve the diagnostic power of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging.

Running time: 39:30
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~225 MB)
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Challenges in the Simulation of Chemical Dynamics
Todd Martinez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Posted: June 10, 2008
Talk given: February 20, 2008

University of Illinois researcher Todd Martinez teams with NCSA to speed chemistry simulations and improve the way the results are stored and studied.

Running time: 57:49
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~363 MB)
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Modeling silicon nanobiodevices
Oleksii Aksimentiev, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Posted: May 13, 2008
Talk given: August 22, 2007

University of Illinois researcher Oleksii Aksimentiev describes his work simulating silicon nanobiodevices, such as a nanopore capacitor that could be used to sequence DNA more quickly and affordably.

Running time: 28:59
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~237 MB)
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Towards a Unified Computational Framework for Prostate Pathology
Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Posted: April 17, 2008
Talk given: October 24, 2007

University of Illinois bioengineering researcher Rohit Bhargava describes how he collaborated with NCSA to explore new techniques for cancer diagnosis. Bhargava worked with NCSA through the center's Faculty Fellows program.

Running time: 1:08:46
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~343 MB)
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Essential cyber-resources
Angela Wilson, University of North Texas
Posted: April 1, 2008
Talk given: August 22, 2007

Angela Wilson, a chemistry researcher from the University of North Texas, explains how essential supercomputing resources at NCSA and other National Science Foundatino centers have been to her research and to persuading her institution to invest in research computing.

Running time: 24:34
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~196 MB)
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Simulations take aim at HIV
Carlos Simmerling, State University of New York Stony Brook
Posted: March 18, 2008
Talk given: August 22, 2007

Carlos Simmerling of the State University of New York Stony Brook details his group's work using high-performance computing to investigate dynamic aspects of biomolecular structure and function, with particular focus on their research into HIV protease.

Running time: 28:43
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~233 MB)
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Biomolecular Simulation Toward the Petascale
Thomas E. Cheatham III, University of Utah
Posted: March 4, 2008
Talk given: August 22, 2007

University of Utah computational researcher Thomas E. Cheatham III looks at both positive and negative trends on the national supercomputing scene during a talk recorded at the fall meeting of the American Chemical Society.

Running time: 26:53
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From Megaflops to Teraflops: From Molecules to Cells
Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Posted: February 5, 2008
Talk given: August 22, 2007

Klaus Schulten discusses the ways in which the computing power provided by the National Science Foundation, including systems at NCSA, accelerates his research.

Running time: 29:42
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Pattern learning for groundwater recharge
Yu-Feng Lin, Illinois State Water Survey
Posted: January 22, 2008
Talk given: April 5, 2007

Illinois State Water Survey researcher Yu-Feng Lin describes the collaborative project he undertook with NCSA's Image Spatial Data Analysis Group as part of his recent faculty fellowship.

Running time: 58:01
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~677 MB)
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Mining Outliers and Rare Events in Data Streams
Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Posted: January 8, 2008
Talk given: March 8, 2007

Faculty Fellow Jiawei Han details his work to develop fast, scalable, and effective data stream mining techniques.

Running time: 48:56
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~397 MB)
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Where does it all go? How $70 million in NSF cyberinfrastructure is leveraged
John Towns, NCSA
Posted: December 19, 2007
Talk given: August 22, 2007

John Towns gives data and insights on the National Science Foundation's cyberinfrastructure strategy, how these resources are used, and current and coming trends.

Running time: 44:09
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~311 MB)
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Reconfigurable Computing: From Satellites to Supercomputers
Alan George, Director of NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC)
Posted: December 19, 2007
Talk given: July 18, 2007

Reconfigurable computing is making inroads in embedded systems and high-end computing. George discusses opportunities and challenges, including several case studies.

Running time: 1:35:36
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~589 MB)
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