Institutional Partnerships

Working Together. Moving Ahead.

Since 2012, we’ve been a part of bold institutional partnerships designed to accelerate research, including the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute. Through these unique collaborations, we bring the best minds together to solve the world’s biggest problems. Meeting the challenges of today. And powering the possibilities of tomorrow.

NCSA plays a leading role in major projects funded by the National Science Foundation, and partners with regional and national institutions as well as titans of industry, like Microsoft, to advance high-performance computing and all it can do for society now and in the future.

Questions about NCSA’s institutional partnerships?

Chuck Pavloski
Associate Director of Engagement
chuckp@illinois.edu

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NCSA experts lead the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS), a $52 million project supported by the National Science Foundation.

Joining major software companies and universities nationwide, NCSA’s involvement in C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute helps accelerate the pace of digital transformation in business, government, and society.

In January 2024, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) was announced as one of the primary NAIRR partners aiming to develop a national AI research infrastructure.

News

Members of NCSA and the University of Illinois receive their HPCwire awards.

NCSA Receives Honors in 2025 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

NCSA was recognized by the HPCwire community for its outstanding work in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.
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Capturing and Controlling the Movement of Genes

Researchers use supercomputers, including Delta, to build an atom-thin platform to film DNA in real-time.
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It is Rocket Science

Using a new algorithm and NCSA’s DeltaAI, a team of researchers reduced the energy cost of simulations by over 500% to help design safer and more efficient spacecraft.
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NCSA’s Delta Assists Potential Staph Infection Breakthrough

Illustration of the molecular handshake driving Staphylococcus aureus adhesion to human skin. The bacterial adhesin SdrD (purple) binds tightly to the host receptor desmoglein-1 (DSG-1, orange) on keratinocytes, with calcium
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