Industry Partner Program

Crafting Solutions for Grand Challenges in Industry and Government.

A History of Success

For over 35 years, NCSA has helped innovative organizations overcome their biggest obstacles. We partner with global companies and government agencies to tackle big questions and provide meaningful results in fields ranging from artificial intelligence to genome mapping to autonomous transportation – all supported by our eight-time HPCWire Award-winning team of experts and delivered on advanced computing resources.

Sectors we work with include:

Aerospace
Agriculture
Energy/Oil & Gas
Insurance
Finance
Healthcare
Pharmaceutical
Manufacturing
Technology
Transportation

Our Expertise

The NCSA Industry Partner Program offers globally recognized domain expertise, comprehensive infrastructure services, and the ability to collaborate across the University of Illinois system with renowned faculty and motivated students.

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Development, automation, and exploration

Production workflows and optimization for genomics; computational biology analysis on HPC and the cloud.

Ask us about:

genome‐wide association studies (GWAS)
performance optimization
machine learning approaches
variant calling
benchmarking
pipeline automation

Cybersecurity and Networking

Connectivity, privacy, assessment

Providing federated identity management, network monitoring and provision, software assurance, system protection, and analytics

Data Analytics & AI

Prediction, assurance, discovery

Data analysis, data management, and machine learning at massive scale for HPC and cloud environments.

Ask us about:

geographic information systems (GIS)
applied machine learning
code optimization
applications
performance tuning
workforce training

Faculty & Student Collaborations

Experience, advancement, training

Partnerships with elite faculty across wide-ranging specialties; career preparation and real-world experience for talented students.

Ask us about:

Research Park
multidisciplinary centers
student work
publications
awards

HPC Operations

Solutions, infrastructure, support

Building, optimizing, advancing and maintaining HPC systems for thousands of active users across the globe.

Modeling & Simulations

Modernization, scaling, research

Consulting for domain-specific fluid dynamics and finite element analysis on HPC.

Ask us about:

multiscale
code profiling
multiphysics
finite element analysis (FEA)
computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
benchmarking
parallelization
FSI
optimization

Software & Applications

Engineering, design, functionality

Development of flexible, extensible software tools and frameworks for data analysis and management.

Ask us about:

integration
metadata creation
open source platforms
data management
custom solutions

Storage

Access, organization, flexibility

Design, configuration and system support of filesystem hardware and software, backup solutions, and archive environments.

Visualization

Transformation, illumination, communication

Exploration and application of representation techniques to maximize insight and understanding of complex data

Ask us about:

documentaries
user interfaces
visualization software
custom solutions
simulations
public outreach
virtual reality (VR)

Let’s talk about your big challenges – and how we can solve them. Contact us today to discuss your needs!

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Building Relationships and Driving Results

The people power behind NCSA’s Industry Partner Program helps bridge the gap between organizations solving large computational problems and the NCSA expertise and resources that can most benefit them.

All Project Highlights

vForge

vForge is a batch computing cluster built on NCSA’s Radiant cloud computing environment and Taiga center-wide storage system. Designed as a starting point for NCSA’s industry partners, vForge provides both traditional compute nodes and GPU nodes as well as a rich set of supported applications that span disciplines such as engineering, life sciences, data analytics, and machine learning.

Delta

Funded by the National Science Foundation’s Innovative High-Performance Computing Program and building on the success of Blue Waters, Delta is the most performant GPU computing resource in NSF’s portfolio, making it a prime destination for advanced scientific research.

Nightingale

Nightingale is a high-performance compute cluster for sensitive data. NCSA experts manage the complex requirements surrounding this data, taking the burden off users so they can focus on their applications. The system is compliant with HIPAA privacy and security rules for using Protected Health Information. Nightingale is not limited to the health domain and accommodates projects that require this amount of security or less.

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