MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 5 — The Milwaukee Institute announced today its partnership with NCSA, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications through the NCSA Private Sector Program located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

This strategic partnership offers a variety of computational resources to the Milwaukee Institute to better serve scientific and engineering projects for clients performing large-scale modeling, simulation, visualization and analytics projects.

Jay Bayne, the Institute’s executive director, stated that the partnership with NCSA was a natural step forward for the Institute given successful projects with Wisconsin- based companies providing products and services to the healthcare, manufacturing, aerospace, transportation and financial services sectors,. Examples include Rockwell, SmartUQ, Dedicated Computing, Oilgear and Briggs & Stratton.

“The Institute’s partnership with NCSA also supports our commitments to regional industry clusters, including the Water Council, MWeRC, UWM Innovation Accelerator, and BIOforward. With NCSA as a strategic partner, we can now better address other growing areas such as advanced manufacturing and intelligent automation,” said Bayne.

With this partnership, the Institute’s high performance computing resources will connect and interact with NCSA’s resources to support Smart Manufacturing programs and their need for “big data” analytics, computational fluid dynamics, information integration and manufacturing enterprise optimization.

The Milwaukee Institute, the region’s only non-profit computational science and technology center, is engaged in solving many challenging science and engineering problems. It is also committed to helping develop a local workforce able to effectively apply modern technical computing to problems faced by small to medium sized manufacturing businesses.

NCSA is one of the nation’s premiere supercomputer and collaboration centers. It operates the iForge and Blue Waters HPC systems and has a rich history in providing resources and expertise to

Fortune 100 companies, including conducting innovative research in dynamic modeling, genomics, agriculture, oil and gas, and water systems. Together the Institute and NCSA are participating in economic development initiatives supported by the National Council on Competitiveness.

About Milwaukee Institute

Founded in 2007, the Milwaukee Institute is a non-profit computational research center dedicated to promoting and providing a regional technical computing cyber-infrastructure that encourages and enables innovation within and among academic and commercial organizations. Members of the Institute have access to modeling, simulation and visualization tools for development of new products and services, for exploration and discovery using computational science, and in analyzing very large datasets.

The Institute encourages cooperation between organizations and across multiple disciplines that seek solutions to “grand challenge” problems in such diverse fields as health care, energy production and distribution, advanced manufacturing, financial services, economics and natural resource management.

About NCSA

With more than 25 years of proven leadership in serving a wide variety of communities, NCSA has built a reputation for accelerating real science and engineering, deploying innovative machine architectures at extreme scale, and advancing the fields of data-intensive computing, cyber security, and visualization. Our successes in these areas are due to our outstanding staff of more than 200— one of the largest and most experienced at any HPC center worldwide. NCSA is uniquely suited to serve communities in ways ranging from applied research to consulting to commercialization.

—

Source: NCSA