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NCSA Houses New DOE-funded Center Led by Illinois Aerospace Engineering

Posted on October 1, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

DOE awards $16.5M to NCSA and AE to develop Center for Exascale-Enabled Scramjet Design at UIUC.

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NSF and NIFA Awards CDA $20M to Develop New AIFARMS Institute

Posted on August 26, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

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.

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NCSA to Be Data Management Partner for New NSF CINet Grant

Posted on August 21, 2020October 6, 2025 by NCSA News Staff

This project will use two software tools developed by NCSA: the Clowder Framework and the Geostreaming Data Framework.

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Center for Digital Agriculture Announces 12 Seed Funding Recipients

Posted on August 20, 2020October 6, 2025 by NCSA News Staff

The funded projects will span nearly every facet of digital agriculture, from crop sciences to deep learning.

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DOE Awards $2.2M to Project at the Intersection of AI and High-Energy Physics Led by NCSA’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation

Posted on August 11, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

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.

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C3.ai DTI Awards $5.4 Million for AI Research to Mitigate COVID-19

Posted on June 26, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

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.

NSF Awards NCSA $10 Million for Deployment of Delta

Posted on June 3, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

NCSA takes an active role in expanding the adoption of GPU-based computing and continues to be at the forefront of advanced research computing.

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NSF Awards NCSA Over $480,000 for the Development of Funcx

Posted on May 14, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

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.

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C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute Funds Projects

Posted on April 29, 2020October 6, 2025 by NCSA News Staff

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.

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NSF Awards Over $680,000 to NCSA to Lead Development of the Einstein Toolkit

Posted on April 22, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

The Einstein Toolkit ecosystem: Enabling fundamental research in the era of multi-messenger astrophysics.