Research NCSA Researcher Simulates Entire Life Form A recent simulation of the satellite tobacco mosaic virus is a striking first. There’s never been a computer simulation of an entire life form in atomic detail. Until now. March 10, 2006
Research Hunt for the Supertwister Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign collaborated with visualization experts at NCSA in an effort to shed light on how the most violent tornadoes form and to create animations that reveal the inner behavior of tornado producing storms. November 8, 2004
In the News Playing the Supercomputer Game When Sony later released the Linux Kit for the PS2, interest in the machines spread beyond the gaming community to a seemingly unlikely place: the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). May 27, 2003
Announcements NSF Creates TeraGrid The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $53 million to four U.S. research institutions to build and deploy a distributed terascale facility (DTF). August 9, 2001
Research NCSA Hits One Million CPU Hours in a Month August 1999 marked the first time usage of a National Science Foundation high-performance computer topped one million normalized CPU hours in one month. August 31, 1999
In the News Newsweek Features NCSA Champaign-Urbana makes an appearance on Newsweek’s top tech cities list, due in-part to NCSA. November 2, 1998
Research Eli Lilly Develops Asthma Drug David Herron of Eli Lilly and Company harnessed high-performance computing to aid the fight against asthma from the moment the company joined NCSA’s Industrial Program, now the Private Sector Program, in 1987. January 10, 1992
Research 3D Volumetric Rendering of Mummy The University of Illinois’ World Heritage Museum received a donated Egyptian mummy in 1989. An interdisciplinary team, including NCSA, then worked to better understand the mummification process and to determine the mummy’s age, sex, medical history, and cause of death. January 15, 1991
Honors and Awards Thunderstorm Visualization Debuts at SIGGRAPH The visualizations of thunderstorms that an NCSA team built in 1989 were not only palatable, they were beautiful and hugely informative. The animation of a thunderstorm as it forms debuted at SIGGRAPH, the international visualization conference. July 15, 1989