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Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.A fury is building on the surface of the Sun: high-velocity jets, a fiery tsunami wave 100,000 km high, rising loops of electrified gas. What’s driving these…

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Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.A fury is building on the surface of the Sun: high-velocity jets, a fiery tsunami wave 100,000 km high, rising loops of electrified gas. What’s driving these…

From  Jeffrey Carpenter 222 plays 0  

Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica Iceberg B-46 Calving Event

In late October, 2018, West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier released about 300 square kilometers (100 square miles) of ice. The largest iceberg, B46, was 226 square kilometers. With…

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Mapping Semi-Arid Woodland Trees and Carbon with 50cm Satellite Data - Tree Size Breakdown

Satellite imagery is used to count tree size in the African Sahara and Sahel. This video uses artificial color to illustrate the relative sizes of the individual trees and shrubs in the count. …

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Recommendations for Securing Zoom and Other Real-time Online Sessions

The NCSA Events group provides assistance for online meetings and events at the NCSA building. In this session, we will discuss security issues and best practices with regard to Zoom and other online…

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Mayo-Illinois Alliance

Two world-class institutions are changing lives through innovative research activities, unique education programs, and shared passion and values. This video was created to open the festivities…

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Hackathon Reports

Ben Galewsky talks about making progress integrating Box with NCSA's Brown Dog during the Box Community Summit Hackathon https://browndog.ncsa.illinois.edu/ Teams from Indiana University and…

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Hurricane Katrina Interactive Previsualization & Final Rendering

A brief look at Bob Patterson working with Virtual Director & Partiview to create camera paths within the Hurricane Katrina data set for the fulldome show, Dynamic Earth

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AVL-Adler Planetarium Networked Virtual Collaboration

A short video created for Chicago Ideas Week showing a collaboration between NCSA's Advanced Visualization Lab and the Adler Planetarium. The two groups collaborated over the network using…

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Inside a Supertwister

Dr. Leigh Orf, a scientist from the University of Wisconsin, tells us how he designed the most detailed supercomputer models of a tornadic thunderstorm ever produced. Funded in part by: National…

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Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Model and Planned Network

Funded in part by: National Science Foundation Award: ACI-1445176 The Centrality of Advance Dgitally Enabled Science: CADENS Cutaway animation of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope with a map of…

From  Jeffrey Carpenter 157 plays 0  

Software Spotlight: The NDS Labs Workbench

NCSA develops and/or contributes to quite a bit of software across its various groups. The newly formed Scientific Software and Applications (SSA) division attempts to bring these endeavors together,…

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Study of a Numerically Modeled Severe Storm

The understanding of severe storms begins with observations of their behavior. Numerical models of thunderstorms can be used to compliment this understanding. These models consist of mathematical…

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Relocating innovation: Places and Material Practices of Future Making

Lucy Suchman - Lancaster University This talk explores the question of how we might engage both critically and generatively with the contemporary figure of innovation. I suggest as one resource the…

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Debut performance of "Machine Child" at the Krannert Center celebrating the birthday of HAL during Cyberfest Gala 1997

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What We Have Learned about using Software Engineering Practices in Scientific Software

The increase in the importance of scientific software motivates the need to identify and understand which software engineering (SE) practices are appropriate. Because of the uniqueness of the…

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Prof. Margaret Hedstrom - Archiving Capacity and Data Infrastructure: Holes, Goals, Roles and Responsibility.mp4

The SEAD project was designed to take advantage of existing archiving capacity in universities, government data centers, and topical archives by building a pipeline from research projects to…

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Dark Energy Survey Sky Coverage and Image Zoom

Funded in part by: National Science Foundation Award: ACI-1445176 The Centrality of Advance Dgitally Enabled Science: CADENS A composite illustration of the breadth of the survey from the Dark …

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The Fornax Cluster Imaged by the Dark Energy Camera

Funded in part by: National Science Foundation Award: ACI-1445176 The Centrality of Advance Dgitally Enabled Science: CADENS A Color composite of The Fornax Cluster of galaxies as imaged by Dark…

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Big Data Visual Analysis

We live in an era in which the creation of new data from simulations, sensors, experiments, imaging, is growing exponentially such that every two days we create as much new data as we did from the…

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Ed Seidel keynote speech - Trends in Scientific Computing and Data

Supercomputing has reached a level of maturity and capability where many areas of science and engineering are not only advancing rapidly due to computing power, they cannot progress without it. …

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NCSA Software Meeting - 2016-09-12 Tim Jenness - Jonathan Sick, LSST

Tim Jenness, Data Management Deputy System Architect with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project, provides a presentation on Software Development for Data Management at LSST. Jonathan…

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Study of a Numerically Modeled Severe Storm

The understanding of severe storms begins with observations of their behavior. Numerical models of thunderstorms can be used to compliment this understanding. These models consist of mathematical…

From  Sara Pelaez 32 plays 0  

Landscape Dynamics of Yellowstone National Park - Role of Fire 1690 to 1990

These images were created from actual data collected in Yellowstone Park. These images represent each year from 1735 to 2090 we had a simulation code project into the future starting in 1989,…

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