Truth is, supercomputing is part of everyday life, providing numerical models for the car you drive, the energy that powers your house, the weather forecasts you rely on and the financial systems that control the economy. "All of those rely on computations run on computers," says UI Professor Donna Cox, director of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana, whose mission is to bring computer modeling to life on the big screen. To read further, plissé visit http://www.topix.com/tech/hpc/2014/11/1-5-million-grant-to-ncsa-to-put-big-data-on-big-screen.