Crafting Solutions for Grand Challenges in Industry and Government.

A History of Success

For over 35 years, NCSA has helped innovative organizations overcome their biggest obstacles. We partner with global companies and government agencies 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

vForge

vForge is a batch computing cluster built on NCSA’s Radiant cloud computing environment and Taiga center-wide storage system. Designed as a starting point for NCSA’s industry partners, vForge provides both traditional compute nodes and GPU nodes as well as a rich set of supported applications that span disciplines such as engineering, life sciences, data analytics, and machine learning.

HOLL-I

HOLL-I is a new service that offers partners access to an extreme scale machine learning capability. Leveraging the power of a Cerebras CS-2 Wafer Scale Engine. HOLL-I is capable of performing large machine-learning tasks in short order. HOLL-I’s unique architecture offers model training roughly equivalent to 10 NVidia DGX systems.

Nightingale

Nightingale is a high-performance compute cluster for sensitive data. NCSA experts manage the complex requirements surrounding this data, taking the burden off users so they can focus on their applications. The system is compliant with HIPAA privacy and security rules for using Protected Health Information. Nightingale is not limited to the health domain and accommodates projects that require this amount of security or less.

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