Funding NCSA Building Stronger Connections Among Observatories, Astronomers The HEROIC service will provide the entire astrophysics community a single destination to coordinate resources around an astronomical event. October 2, 2024
Science Features Software, Science, Melting Permafrost in Alaska Members of NCSA and Google worked together in Alaska as part of the Permafrost Discovery Gateway. September 23, 2024
Funding SkAI Launched to Further Explore Universe NCSA and partner institutions received a $20 million grant to create new artificial intelligence tools for space exploration. September 18, 2024
Announcements Hub to Connect Illinois’ Data Science Research Community Launched New Office of Data Science Research will connect the campus data science research community. August 29, 2024
Honors and Awards Gropp, Former NCSA Leaders Selected for HPCwire’s Inaugural ‘35 Legends’ List The list recognizes 35 luminaries who have made HPC what it is today. July 25, 2024
Announcements CDA Creates New Industry Partner Program The Center for Digital Agriculture launched a program to strengthen connection between academia, technology and industry within the agriculture sector. July 23, 2024
Announcements Demand Skyrockets for Illinois Computes Research Notebooks Illinois Computes is providing access to Jupyter Notebooks to a record number of University of Illinois researchers. July 11, 2024
Honors and Awards HarvestHub App Tackles Supply Chain, Food Insecurity Issues Developed by the NCSA Genomics team and Visual Analytics Group, HarvestHub will get more food to families in need. July 1, 2024
In the News NCSA To Help Facilitate TGI RAILS Housed at the National Petascale Computing Facility on the Illinois campus, the Regional AI Learning System (RAILS) will be supported by NCSA. June 24, 2024
Announcements Chuck Thompson Named Director of Illinois Computes Former assistant dean and chief information officer at the Grainger College of Engineering returns to campus to lead Illinois Computes program into next era. June 18, 2024
Funding NSF Awards Additional $9.8 Million for Delta, DeltaAI The additional NSF funding highlights a commitment to make NCSA’s integrated machine learning and artificial intelligence systems a premier resource for researchers nationwide. June 5, 2024
Funding NCSA Upgrades Granite to Expand Availability to ACCESS, Illinois Researchers Granite’s capacity will increase 4.5 times and nearly double its performance thanks to a $500,000 NSF grant. May 13, 2024
Announcements NCSA’s Delta Prominent Choice of NAIRR Pilot Researchers Delta will be used by a majority of the AI research projects utilizing NSF-funded advanced computing systems. May 8, 2024
Honors and Awards NCSA Awards 2024 Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Carle Illinois College of Medicine student Nellie Haug wins $10,000 award for rapid cervical cancer screening test. May 1, 2024
Announcements Illinois Computes Adds GPUs to Radiant The additional hardware strengthens the cloud-like system, offering greater capabilities to ICRN and University of Illinois researchers. April 29, 2024
Thought Leadership NCSA Director Bill Gropp on What’s Next for Illinois Computes The Download: A Thought Leadership Series. April 22, 2024