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Communication and Social Media
To keep up to date with NCSA you should read the weekly Bytes and Pieces newsletter which is sent by email to the all-ncsa mail list, usually late in the day on Wednesday. Anyone without an NCSA affiliation can subscribe to a weekly news and events mail list which is the same news without the more internal items — see the NCSA Get Updates page at http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news/get_updates for how to subscribe. This page also links to our feeds on Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn , Instagram , and YouTube .
Hiring Student Employees and Postdoctoral Researchers
If you have interest in employing an undergraduate or graduate student directly through NCSA, please coordinate this through Laura Owen. Faculty sponsors will be responsible for approving student time sheets on a biweekly basis. To hire a postdoctoral researcher, please contact Amanda Lombardo.
Facilities Assistance
If you require furniture to be moved or pictures/white boards, etc. to be hung, please coordinate through Laura Owen.
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Cyberinfrastructure Resources
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The NSF funded Blue Waters petascale supercomputer has a peak performance of over 13 petaflops, some 26 petabytes of disk storage, and up to 380 petabytes of tape storage. Although much of Blue Waters is allocated through an NSF review process, different mechanisms exists for Illinois faculty and researchers to take advantage of this resource. The different allocation mechanisms are described at https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/illinois-allocations. Contact Jay Roloff for (jayr@illinois.edu) for more information on Blue Waters allocations.
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The NCSA storage condo provides mid-level scalable storage from 10 terabytes to over a petabyte. The cost-recovery fee-for-service model starts at around $100/terabyte/year. Each project gets a private file system/s, access to data is via file system (NFS) or Globus. Additional services and access options are available via additional consulting fees. Use cases for this type of storage are hosting of large data sets, operational data storage and scratch space for analysis, mid-term data storage for archival needs. Please contact Michelle Butler (mlbutler@illinois.edu) for more information.
Media Lab
The NCSA Media Lab is located on the 2nd floor of the building in room 2029 and can be reserved on the NCSA Outlook calendar share as NCSA-2029. The room has key code entry, to get the number please contact Jeff Carpenter after you make your reservation. The Advanced Visualization Lab has made a Mac Pro available to staff use for creating and working with multimedia files.
- The computer is a Mac Pro with 2 3.06 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon processors and 64 GB of RAM and has a Blackmagic Design DeckLink 4K Extreme video card for digitizing video and audio.
- There are 2 SSD drives installed for temporary storage of your project files. Being that this is a public space, it is recommended that you upload your projects and completed files to the cloud or removable storage to ensure that they will be available when you need them.
- The full Adobe Creative Cloud suite is installed.
- An Epson V750 Pro flat bed scanner for scanning photographs and slides is available.
- Unity Game Engine is installed, but you will need your own account to use the software.
- Handbrake open source video transcoder is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
- All of the standard Apple software, like GarageBand & iMovie are also available to use.
For more information on the room or equipment, or basic advice, please contact Jeff Carpenter (jdcarpen@illinois.edu).Information forthcoming
Creative Lab/e-Dream Lab
The Creative Lab contains an extensive list of equipment including audio, Mac and PC computers, projectors, network and video routing, camera equipment, cables/adapters/mics, lighting, and motion capture among others. For more information on the room or equipment, please contact Donna Cox (donnacox@illinois.edu).
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