NPCF Wall Installation

Client

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a hub of transdisciplinary research and digital scholarship where University of Illinois faculty, staff, and students, and collaborators from around the globe, unite to address research grand challenges for the benefit of science and society.

The Center also provides integrated cyberinfrastructure—computing, data, networking, and visualization resources and expertise that are essential to the work of scientists, engineers, and scholars at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and across the country.

Project

At the National Petascale Computing Facility, visitors can see amazing high-tech hardware capable of performing quadrillions of mathematical operations every second and of managing quadrillions of bytes of data. But the science and engineering work that the Blue Waters supercomputer, the iForge cluster, ROGER, and NCSA’s high-performance networking and data systems make possible is invisible to the naked eye.

To help people envision the range of science being performed, and the complex mathematics behind it, I designed a mural featuring scientific visualizations and equations used by some of our research partners.