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NCSA Launches DeltaAI 

DeltaAI will enable the nation’s scientists and researchers to address the world’s most challenging problems.

Illinois Computes Providing Researchers with Jupyter Notebooks

The campus-funded program is making accessible and nimble computing available to Illinois researchers free of charge.

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NCSA Director Bill Gropp on SC24, Focus in 2025

The Download: A Thought Leadership Series.
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A New Community and Sustainability Path for Parsl

Parsl, co-founded by NCSA’s Daniel S. Katz, recently joined the NumFOCUS community as a sponsored project.
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NCSA Welcomes Paige Duncan to the Center Stage!

Get to know some of our amazing staff in our profile series.
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NCSA, HCU Join Forces to Accelerate Research in AI

NCSA’s Center for AI Innovation to collaborate with Houston Christian University.
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Visualizations Help Make Sense of Supply Chain Processes

Illinois Computes allocation leads to new ways of presenting flow data.
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Harbor Service, VAST Data Provide Boost for NCSA Systems 

Delta and DeltaAI will utilize Harbor to increase GPU and storage performance.
NCSA's Brett Bode (right) receives two 2024 HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice awards from Tom Tabor, CEO of Tabor Communications, the publishers of HPCwire.

NCSA Receives Honors in 2024 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

NCSA recognized by the HPCwire community for its outstanding work in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.
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NCSA Launches DeltaAI 

DeltaAI will enable the nation’s scientists and researchers to address the world’s most challenging problems.
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From Postdoc Affiliate to Award-Winning Researcher

Read the first in a new series catching up with successes who launched their careers at NCSA.
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To the Farthest Reaches in Five Years

The Astrophysical Sciences Project Office celebrates five years of success with its programs, including the Center for AstroPhysical Surveys.
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Security in Quantum Computing

NCSA researchers are addressing potential security challenges resulting from quantum computing before they reach a critical stage.
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Transforming Agriculture with AI

Showcasing the myriad ways in which NCSA’s partner, the Center for Digital Agriculture, is harnessing the power of AI.
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NCSA Director Bill Gropp on ‘Different Approaches to AI’

The Download: A Thought Leadership Series.
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NCSA, NAIRR Providing Greater Access to AI Resources

NCSA’s partnership with NAIRR already producing impactful results.
Participants at the International Climate Computer Summit, hosted by NCSA and CLiMAS, look up and smile for a drone photograph. (Photo credit: Darrell Hoemann.)

Building a ‘Large Hadron Collider for Climate Change’ – Together

The team behind the recent International Climate Computer Summit, co-hosted by NCSA, seeks to empower communities with the information they need to make good decisions about climate change.
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NCSA Welcomes Kenton McHenry to the Center Stage!

Get to know some of our amazing staff in our profile series.
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Chuck Thompson on ‘The Evolving Vision for Illinois Computes’

Director of Illinois Computes Chuck Thompson lays out the next steps for the growing program.
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NCSA Building Stronger Connections Among Observatories, Astronomers 

The HEROIC service will provide the entire astrophysics community a single destination to coordinate resources around an astronomical event.
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Probing the Early Universe

NCSA scientists probe the epoch of the first stars and galaxies using the oldest light in the universe and the Illinois Campus Cluster.
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Poetry in Motion

NCSA’s Advanced Visualization experts provide a visual spectacle to accompany poets performing at Pygmalion 24.
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Software, Science, Melting Permafrost in Alaska

Members of NCSA and Google worked together in Alaska as part of the Permafrost Discovery Gateway.
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SkAI Launched to Further Explore Universe

NCSA and partner institutions received a $20 million grant to create new artificial intelligence tools for space exploration.
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International Summit Seeks to Harness Supercomputing Power for Climate Decision-making

Hosted and organized by NCSA and led by Professor of Atmospheric Science Kelvin Droegemeier, the summit’s long-term goal is kilometer-scale global resolution in Earth system modeling and climate projection.
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Astronomers Use AI to More Clearly Observe Space

With support from NCSA, an evolving DeepDISC project helps identify objects such as stars and galaxies.
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Illinois Computes Helps Bring a Whale of a Story to Life

You don’t need to be a scientist who crunches big data to take advantage of Illinois Computes.
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Hub to Connect Illinois’ Data Science Research Community Launched

New Office of Data Science Research will connect the campus data science research community.
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NCSA Receives Cancer Research Funding

NCSA’s Health Innovation Program Office will lead a portion of President Biden’s “Moonshot” cancer research initiative funded through ARPA-H.
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Where Technology, Agriculture and Young Minds Meet

Summer CDA REU students learn how advanced technology is transforming traditional agricultural practices.

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