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Celebrating 40 Years as a Partner in Research

Big data requires big thinking. At NCSA, you’ll find visionary leaders, seasoned staff, and dedicated support whose expertise brings your research to a new level.

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Compute resources and people at NCSA through the various decades, evoking nostalgia

Celebrating 40 Years as Partner in Research

Big data requires big thinking. At NCSA, you’ll find visionary leaders, seasoned staff, and dedicated support whose expertise brings your research to a new level.

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New Frontiers in Precision Medicine

Researchers from Yale University use NCSA resources to build AI tools that decode individual genetic blueprints and map how genes interact within tissues over time.
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A New Era of Astrophysics Discovery

NCSA and CAPS help map the cosmos with the power of supercomputing.
Hajara-Yasmin Isa presented with the 2026 Fiddler Innovation Fellowship award

NCSA Awards 2026 Fiddler Innovation Fellowship

Grainger College of Engineering doctoral student Hajara-Yasmin Isa won a $10,000 award for providing West Africans with accessible computer science learning materials.
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Mastering the Art of the Game

Researchers use their time on NCSA’s DeltaAI supercomputer to train AI agents more effectively by pitting them against each other in flying competitions.

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Since being founded by the National Science Foundation and the state of Illinois in 1986, NCSA has been a leader in advanced computing, software, data, networking and visualization resources. As supercomputing has become more essential to research disciplines, our expertise enables scientists, researchers, engineers and scholars to take on the grand challenges that benefit science and society. 

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