News

DeltaAI will enable the nation’s scientists and researchers to address the world’s most challenging problems.

The campus-funded program is making accessible and nimble computing available to Illinois researchers free of charge.

Purple, green, yellow, and orange star shaped diffractions a black background

A Direct Bridge

An algorithm developed by University of Arkansas engineers aids both computational scientists and experimentalists exploring the atomic scale structure of materials.
Screenshot from Behind the Scenes of Hubble 3D with orange, pink, and yellow gas clouds with white stars in a black sky

Behind the Scenes of ‘Hubble 3D’

Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, this documentary film takes viewers through distant galaxies as it tells the story of the repair and upgrade of the Hubble telescope.
Screenshot of a lifeform at the atomic level colored in green, blue, and red, next to a photo of Klaus Schulten

NCSA Researcher Simulates Entire Life Form

A recent simulation of the satellite tobacco mosaic virus is a striking first. There’s never been a computer simulation of an entire life form in atomic detail. Until now.
Screenshot from the Hunt for the Supertwister Documentary of a tornado visualization closeup of grey clouds and orange, blue, and yellow data points within the funnel

Hunt for the Supertwister

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign collaborated with visualization experts at NCSA in an effort to shed light on how the most violent tornadoes form and to create
2003 photograph of Craig Steffen standing next to a cluster of Playstation 2 consoles at NCSA

Playing the Supercomputer Game

When Sony later released the Linux Kit for the PS2, interest in the machines spread beyond the gaming community to a seemingly unlikely place: the National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NSF TeraGrid physical map of the United States with orange lines branching out to connect UC/ANL, NCSA, IU, PU, ORNL, PSC, UT, and SDSC

NSF Creates TeraGrid

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $53 million to four U.S. research institutions to build and deploy a distributed terascale facility (DTF).
Abstract HPC System with white lights and the 35 NCSA anniversary logo

NCSA Hits One Million CPU Hours in a Month

August 1999 marked the first time usage of a National Science Foundation high-performance computer topped one million normalized CPU hours in one month.
Newsweek November 1998 magazine cover on a light teal background with abstract white lines and connecting dots

Newsweek Features NCSA

Champaign-Urbana makes an appearance on Newsweek’s top tech cities list, due in-part to NCSA.
An image of a yellow, blue, red and grey molecule next to an image of a black, red, and blue vintage supercomputer

Eli Lilly Develops Asthma Drug

David Herron of Eli Lilly and Company harnessed high-performance computing to aid the fight against asthma from the moment the company joined NCSA’s Industrial Program, now the Private Sector Program,
Three images of a 3D volumetric rendering of a mummy, showing different angles of the head and upper body

3D Volumetric Rendering of Mummy

The University of Illinois’ World Heritage Museum received a donated Egyptian mummy in 1989. An interdisciplinary team, including NCSA, then worked to better understand the mummification process and to determine
Screenshot of a thunderstorm visualization with blue, grey, and black clouds on a white and grey grid

Thunderstorm Visualization Debuts at SIGGRAPH

The visualizations of thunderstorms that an NCSA team built in 1989 were not only palatable, they were beautiful and hugely informative. The animation of a thunderstorm as it forms debuted
NCSA | National Center for Supercomputing Applications
1205 W. Clark St.
Urbana, IL 61801
217-244-0710