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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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NCSA Receives Honors in 2021 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

Eleventh Year NCSA is Recognized by HPCwire Awards, Given to Leaders in the Global High-Performance Computing Community.
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Volodymyr Kindratenko Named Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at NCSA

Dr. Kindratenko, an NCSA veteran, brings decades of institutional knowledge, teaching, research and computing experience to the director role.
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NCSA Introduces a New Way to Manage Data

Taiga system offers more affordable, seamless moving and storage.
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NCSA Software Fits Many Research Toolboxes

A global leader in open-source software development, NCSA ramps up its software directorate to do even more.
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NCSA Researcher Contribute to USDA-Funded Agrivoltaics Project

Illinois researchers across disciplines have received $10 million to research agrivoltaic systems
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Daniel S. Katz Elected to IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors

NCSA Chief Scientist will join the Board of Governors for the IEEE’s Computer Society.
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NCSA Contributes to $4.4 Million Astronomy Cyberinfrastructure Project

The NSF-funded project, called MUSES, will help to build an open-source cyberinfrastructure that can be used to generate Equations of State for astronomical research.
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Marginal Land for Growing Bioenergy Crops Less Than Estimated

NCSA’s Blue Waters aids researchers in estimating marginal land available for bioenergy production.
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NCSA AI and Industry Team at 2021 ML4I Forum

NCSA’s Seid Koric, Brendan McGinty, and Shirui Luo participated in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Machine Learning for Industry Forum in August.
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CDA Collaborates to Launch $25 Million CROPPS Initiative

The multidisciplinary, National Science Foundation-funded collaboration aims to understand the communication of plants.
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Back-to-School Tech for Families in One Illinois School District

NCSA’s Community Data Clinic helps provide laptops and internet access.
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Radiant Takes on the Cloud

NCSA’s Radiant system helps researchers manage data through the cloud, offering significant cost savings.
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Researchers Selected for Delta External Advisory Committee

Group will help guide project’s growth and development
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Five PhD Students Named New Frontiers Graduate Fellows

The early career researchers receive substantial support and time on NCSA’s sustained-petascale performance Blue Waters supercomputer.
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2021 NCSA Summer Internships Provide Valuable Experiences to Undergraduates

International and domestic students participated in various NCSA projects, working alongside experts and mentors to address real-world challenges using advanced digital resources.
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Katz Named Inaugural ReSA Steering Committee Chair

ReSA, the Research Software Alliance, has named Daniel S. Katz as its inaugural Steering Committee Chair.
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The Donna Cox Legacy: Inspiring and Visualizing the Future

NCSA celebrates and honors its Chief Scholar and Illinois Professor Donna J. Cox as she retires after nearly four outstanding decades of contributions to art, science, research, technology, and society.
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NCSA Welcomes 2021-22 Faculty Fellows

The NCSA Faculty Fellowship program awarded 15 University of Illinois faculty funding for 10 interdisciplinary research projects involving our center.
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Helping Teens Study the Universe

High school students got first-hand experience studying space and the Universe last week through the Girls’ Astronomy Summer Camp run by Illinois’ Department of Astronomy and NCSA’s Center for Astrophysical
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NCSA Student Spotlight: Fiddler Fellow Ariana Barreau

Learn more about her journey and what inspired her to co-found ProteCKD and AxisMED in this Q&A.
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NCSA Students Pushing Innovation Program Celebrates Success Amid COVID-19

This spring, NCSA’s SPIN program went completely virtual. Despite the circumstances, the program completed a successful virtual session and recognized notable projects, interns and mentors for the 2020-21 academic year.
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From Planets to Galaxies and Gravitational Waves

The international DES collaboration uses a massive, public collection of astronomical data and calibrated images compiled with the help of NCSA to make remarkable discoveries about our Universe.
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C3.ai DTI Announces AI for Energy and Climate Security Awards

The consortium awarded $4.4M in funding and advanced computing resources to 21 projects at partner institutions.
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NCSA’s CILogon Selected for Incommon Catalyst Program

The Catalyst Program brings identity and access management expertise, support to the InCommon community.
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How Do You Train a Supercomputer to Learn?

NCSA’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation uses COVID-19 chest x-rays to explore best methods.
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Dark Energy Survey Releases Most Precise Look at the Universe’s Evolution

The Dark Energy Survey collaboration has created the largest ever maps of the distribution and shapes of galaxies, tracing both ordinary and dark matter in the universe out to a
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NCSA Researcher Ben Grosser Is Breaking the Internet

Ben Grosser, an NCSA affiliate and University of Illinois professor, is using social media to reveal truth, and art, in the digital world.
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Big Data Aids PPE Research

University of Illinois professor awarded a $200,000 RAPID grant to design a 3D-printable medical mask inspired by the nasal structures of animals.

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