Announcements CDA Collaborates to Launch $25 Million CROPPS Initiative The multidisciplinary, National Science Foundation-funded collaboration aims to understand the communication of plants. September 9, 2021
Announcements C3.ai DTI Announces AI for Energy and Climate Security Awards The consortium awarded $4.4M in funding and advanced computing resources to 21 projects at partner institutions. June 10, 2021
Announcements Center for Digital Agriculture Contributes to Launch COALESCE Co-led by NCSA’s Girish Chowdhary, the COALESCE initiative will help make field management more efficient and tactical. April 29, 2021
Announcements NCSA Houses New DOE-funded Center Led by Illinois Aerospace Engineering DOE awards $16.5M to NCSA and AE to develop Center for Exascale-Enabled Scramjet Design at UIUC. October 1, 2020
Announcements NSF and NIFA Awards CDA $20M to Develop New AIFARMS Institute UIUC Center for Digital Agriculture wins $20M award from National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program to accelerate AI research and agricultural Innovation through new AIFARMS Institute. August 26, 2020
Announcements NCSA to Be Data Management Partner for New NSF CINet Grant This project will use two software tools developed by NCSA: the Clowder Framework and the Geostreaming Data Framework. August 21, 2020
Announcements Center for Digital Agriculture Announces 12 Seed Funding Recipients The funded projects will span nearly every facet of digital agriculture, from crop sciences to deep learning. August 20, 2020
Funding DOE Awards $2.2M to Project at the Intersection of AI and High-Energy Physics Led by NCSA’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation Illinois’ CAII leads a team of experts from UMN, MIT and UC San Diego for DOE-funded FAIR Framework for Physics-Inspired Artificial Intelligence in High Energy Physics project. August 11, 2020
Funding C3.ai DTI Awards $5.4 Million for AI Research to Mitigate COVID-19 The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute awards funding to 26 projects for research about COVID-19 and its impact on racial, economic, and healthcare disparities. June 26, 2020
Announcements NSF Awards NCSA $10 Million for Deployment of Delta NCSA takes an active role in expanding the adoption of GPU-based computing and continues to be at the forefront of advanced research computing. June 3, 2020
Funding NSF Awards NCSA Over $480,000 for the Development of Funcx This new “function-as-a-service” (FaaS) platform is hosted on the cloud and will enable researchers to build applications from functions that they can easily distribute across a variety of academic and commercial computing resources. May 14, 2020
Funding C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute Funds Projects Three newly funded projects from the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute will enable researchers to 1) model the spread of COVID-19 for intervention policies, 2) model homelessness caused by the shutdown and target aid for at-risk communities, and 3) develop machine intelligence methods to aid in the interrogation of medical images from COVID-19 patients. April 29, 2020
Funding NSF Awards Over $680,000 to NCSA to Lead Development of the Einstein Toolkit The Einstein Toolkit ecosystem: Enabling fundamental research in the era of multi-messenger astrophysics. April 22, 2020
Funding NIST-funded Collaboration Featuring NCSA Renewed for $20 Million The Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, hosted at Colorado State University, has been granted a five-year extension from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). March 2, 2020
Announcements NCSA Allocates Over 21 Million Node Hours in New Blue Waters Supercomputer Awards Over $13 million worth of allocations in Blue Waters supercomputer awards have been given to researchers and faculty at Illinois studying a diversity of topics. February 28, 2020
Funding Blue Waters Professor Awarded $3.3 Million for DOE Project Kaiyu Guan, a Blue Waters professor at NCSA, and his research team have been awarded a grant to measure carbon emissions in bioenergy crops. January 23, 2020