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

The campus-funded program is making accessible and nimble computing available to Illinois researchers free of charge.
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.
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.
NCSA’s CILogon Selected for Incommon Catalyst Program
The Catalyst Program brings identity and access management expertise, support to the InCommon community.
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.
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
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.
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.
NCSA Gravity Group Prepares Students for Their Futures
Seven NCSA Gravity Group interns share bright post-graduation plans.
NCSA Awards Scholarship to Winner of Social Hack 2021 Essay Contest
NCSA’s eDream Institute partners with Design for America to award a scholarship to a UIUC undergrad for an essay on human-centered design thinking.
Center for Digital Agriculture Contributes to Launch COALESCE
Co-led by NCSA’s Girish Chowdhary, the COALESCE initiative will help make field management more efficient and tactical.
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.
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