
Simulating the Life Cycle of a Cell with NCSA’s Delta
Researchers gained new insights into the essential processes of life by simulating the full cycle of a bacterial cell on NCSA’s Delta supercomputer.

Srikant Named NCSA’s New Director
R. Srikant took over responsibilities as NCSA director at the start of 2026.
NCSA Teams Contribute to Return-to-school Planning
Leveraging diverse expertise, researchers and designers from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications collaborated with the University of Illinois on two tools to help schools safely transition back to in-person
NCSA Announces 2021 Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Recipient
Ariana Barreau receives NCSA’s eDream Institute’s Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Award at the Illinois Innovation Prize virtual ceremony on April 15, 2021.
NCSA Groups Sweep Original Undergraduate Research Award Again at EOH 2021
NCSA’s Student Cluster Competition, Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation, and Students Pushing INnovation teams win first, second and third place at this year’s Engineering Open House.
NCSA Team Contributes to Cover Crop Decision Support Tool
The Cover Crop Analyzer tool will use simulation to help farmers take the guesswork out of crop selection.
Scientists Monitoring Magnetic ‘Pothole’ in Space
Geomagnetic field forecasting models run on NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer identify new variations in the South Atlantic Anomaly.
Applications Open for New Frontiers Initiative Graduate Research Fellowships
The fellowship will provide PhD students with a year of full-time research support, including a $38,000 stipend, up to $12,000 in tuition allowance, and an allocation up to 100,000 node-hours
C3.ai DTI Announces Call for Papers to Advance AI for Energy and Climate Security
Funded proposals will receive up to $5M and include unlimited free access to the C3 AI Suite hosted on the Microsoft Azure Cloud.
Dark Energy Survey Makes Public Catalog of Nearly 700 Million Astronomical Objects
The international collaboration that includes NCSA, releases a massive, public collection of astronomical data and calibrated images from six years of surveys. This data release is one of the largest
NCSA Researchers Identify Biomarkers to Accelerate Liver Toxicity Testing in New Products
More rapid and accurate testing methods could lead to safer products on the market.
NCSA Faculty Fellows Gain Nutritional Insights from Biomarkers
A research team led by NCSA Faculty Fellows were able to apply machine learning to human nutrition research.
NCSA Wins Multiple Awards During SC20
NCSA and our partner institutions were honored to take home awards during the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC20), spanning from Agriculture to Visualization and many domains in between.
NCSA Contributes to Mobileshield COVID Testing Lab
NCSA experts help to automate lab processes to make COVID-19 saliva testing more efficient and mobile
NCSA Receives Honors in 2020 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
The biannual awards recognize achievements by users of high-performance computing technologies.
NCSA Receives Honors in 2020 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards
17th annual HPCwire Awards presented to leaders in the global HPC community.
NCSA Wins DOE INCITE Award for Physics-Inspired AI Project
An NCSA-led team receives 145,000 node hours on Summit to create AI tools that enable data-driven discovery in multi-messenger astrophysics.
NCSA Awards 16 Fiddler Innovation Fellowships to Illinois Students and Faculty
Interdisciplinary research projects that create innovative solutions for real-world challenges rewarded during the virtual award ceremony.
NCSA Contributes to Development of Safer Illinois App
Multiple NCSA staff members joined a campuswide collaboration to create the Safer Illinois app, that allows students and faculty to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
NCSA’s Blue Waters Helps NASA Conduct Groundbreaking Tree Mapping Study and Carbon Research
Machine learning lets researchers map 1.8 billion trees across an area of more than 500,000 square miles.
William “Bill” Gropp Voted IEEE Computer Society President
The president oversees IEEE Computer Society programs and operations and is a nonvoting member of most IEEE Computer Society program boards and committees.
Comments Sought on Scientific Data Security Concerns and Practices
Webinar Oct. 7 at noon CDT to discuss recommendations.
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.
Deep Learning Model Opens Doors for Innovation in Complex Materials Design
A diverse NCSA research team, which includes an Illinois MechSE undergraduate, uses AI and HPC to train a model capable of deploying metamaterial design with topology optimization on laptops that
NCSA Releases Latest Blue Waters Project Annual Report
Dive into the groundbreaking research being done on Blue Waters, from astrophysics to biology.
NCSA and U of I Announce New Center for Astrophysical Surveys
NCSA and Illinois’ new Center for AstroPhysical Surveys aims to advance survey science and increase our understanding of the Universe.
NCSA’s Donna J. Cox Honored With Rare IPS Technology Innovation Award
This is just the eighth time since the society’s founding in 1958 that this honor has been bestowed.
NCSA Supports IGB’s New NSF-funded Molecule Maker Lab Institute to Accelerate AI Research
NCSA’s Software Associate Director Kenton McHenry collaborates and shares expertise with MMLI team to advance molecular science.
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.
Sustaining Diversity and Inclusion Throughout a Summer of Social Distancing
NCSA’s REU-INCLUSION fellowship and SPIN internship programs were held virtually this summer and continued to promote collaboration, diversity, and inclusion.
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