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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.

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Srikant Named NCSA’s New Director

R. Srikant took over responsibilities as NCSA director at the start of 2026.

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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

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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NCSA Researchers Use XSEDE to Accelerate Star Merger Simulations

A team from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) used artificial intelligence on XSEDE systems to obtain a correction factor for merger simulations.
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A New Way of Designing Global Satellite Missions

A Cornell University researcher taps work he did using NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer to fix a problem that’s puzzled researchers for nearly 40 years.
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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.
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NCSA and SMU Announce New Strategic Partnership

NCSA and SMU form partnership to promote advanced research computing.
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NCSA Welcomes 2020-21 Faculty Fellows

The NCSA Faculty Fellowship is a competitive program for faculty and researchers at the University of Illinois which provides seed funding for new collaborations that include NCSA staff as integral
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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.
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NCSA’s CSND Provides Vital Services Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

As everyone at NCSA and beyond continues to adapt to working from home during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Cybersecurity and Networking Division helps to alleviate stressors and worries with technology.
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NCSA and Compute Ontario Announce Partnership to Promote Advanced Research Computing

NCSA forms international partnership with Compute Ontario to leverage supercomputing assets and achieve common goals.
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NCSA Gravity Group Interns Build Strong Foundation for Their Futures

Four NCSA Gravity Group interns share bright plans for their futures post graduation.
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NCSA SPIN Program Works Toward Closing the Stem Gap

This program aims to create an inclusive and collaborative environment by pairing interns with field experts to enhance tech skills, and in turn, contribute to diversification of STEM fields.
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Educating the Next Generation of Supercomputer Users With Blue Waters

Tulin Kaman, a researcher at the University of Arkansas, has used the Blue Waters Undergraduate Internship program to offer students hands-on HPC research experience.
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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
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Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub Collaborates to Bring Data Science Training Across the Region

Workshops held by the Midwest Big Data Hub help to improve data skills across a variety of midwestern states.
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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
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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.
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NCSA’s Stuart Levy Wins Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence Award

Levy, a Senior Research Programmer in NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Lab, received a campuswide honor for his decades of service and groundbreaking work in the realm of scientific visualization.
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NCSA Announces 2020 Recipient of Fiddler Innovation Fellowship

Ananya Cleetus receives NCSA’s eDream Institute’s Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Award at the Illinois Innovation Prize virtual ceremony.
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Using Supercomputers to Understand Aviation Turbulence

Katelyn Barbaraer, a former Blue Waters Graduate Fellow from the University of North Dakota, is using supercomputers to help the aviation industry better evaluate turbulence
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NCSA Joins Nationwide Collaboration to Combat COVID-19

The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute, which spans multiple research institutions and private companies, seeks to apply computational resources and artificial intelligence to initially study COVID-19 and ways to curb its
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Two Students from the University of Queensland Take on Research Internships at NCSA

For eight weeks this winter, two students from the University of Queensland in Australia gained hands-on at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) as research interns.
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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).
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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.
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Blue Waters Aids Researchers in Breakthrough Flu Simulations

Rommie Amaro, a Blue Waters researcher from UC-San Diego, has used Blue Waters to simulate movement in the viral envelope of the flu virus.
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NCSA Collaborates to Launch Knowledge Engine for Genomics

The platform, developed as part of NIH’s Big Data to Knowledge Center of Excellence, will help to advance genomics research.
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NCSA Faculty Affiliate Receives Fulbright Specialist Grant

Anita Chan, a Fiddler Innovation Faculty Fellow at NCSA and a professor in Information Sciences and Media and Cinema Studies, will receive a prestigious Fulbright Specialist grant.
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NCSA Helps Launch IN-CORE Platform to Model Community Resilience and Natural Hazards

IN-CORE, a software platform developed by the NIST-funded Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning, will help researchers model both natural hazard impacts on communities and the resilience of
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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.

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