Crafting Solutions for Grand Challenges in Industry and Government.

A History of Success

For over 30 years, NCSA has helped innovative organizations overcome their biggest obstacles. We partner with global companies and government groups 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.

Development, automation, and exploration

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

Ask us about:

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

Connectivity, privacy, assessment

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

Prediction, assurance, discovery

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

Ask us about:

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

Experience, advancement, training

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

Ask us about:

multidisciplinary centers
student work
publications
awards
Research Park

Solutions, infrastructure, support

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

Modernization, scaling, research

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

Ask us about:

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

Engineering, design, functionality

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

Ask us about:

metadata creation
open source platforms
data management
custom solutions
integration

Access, organization, flexibility

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

Transformation, illumination, communication

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

Ask us about:

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

iForge Compute Resources

iForge is a high-performance computing cluster designed specifically for NCSA’s industry partners, featuring distinct hardware platforms designed for differing computational needs.

For more information on gaining access to iForge, please contact us.

We Speak Your Language

Ask about our eight spoken languages and 20+ programming languages: Android Studio, C, C++, C#, Bash, Fortran, Git, HTML/CSS, Java, JavaScript, Matlab, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Spark, SQL, Stata, Unity and others.

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Team

Brendan McGinty

Director

Neil Andrews

Program Manager

Katherine Kendig

Program Manager

Charlotte Cornwall

Project Manager

Holly Highland

Project Manager

Pam Joop

Office Administrator

News

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June 6, 2022

Profiles

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NCSA’s SPIN program continues to attract and retain outstanding UIUC undergraduates

June 3, 2022

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NSCA’s McGinty Leading Proposal for New Network of Supercomputing Centers

The International Association of Supercomputing Centers would serve centers worldwide.

June 3, 2022

Funding

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The Center for Digital Agriculture at NCSA and the Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment collaborate to pioneer I-FARM, NIFA’s Farm of the Future Project.

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