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Using a new algorithm and NCSA’s DeltaAI, a team of researchers reduced the energy cost of simulations by over 500% to help design safer and more efficient spacecraft.

An official University of Illinois tool, Illinois Chat allows campus members to create their own AI-powered chatbots to enhance their work.

Illustration of the molecular handshake driving Staphylococcus aureus adhesion to human skin. The bacterial adhesin SdrD (purple) binds tightly to the host receptor desmoglein-1 (DSG-1, orange) on keratinocytes, with calcium

Researchers from Cornell University use Delta to explore how a protein in the blood-brain barrier could be the key to better deliver treatments to the brain.

NCSA’s UI/UX team helps researchers create intuitive user experiences for even the most complex science applications.

This year’s group of summer CDA REU students learn about robotics, biotechnology, animal science and more.

NCSA strengthened its longstanding partnership with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency through a new agreement.

NCSA resources assist a researcher from Ohio State University in studying atrial fibrillation in order to create better treatments for this deadly condition.

Experts from NCSA help host a daylong quantum computing workshop at this year’s PEARC conference.

The U.S. National Science Foundation awarded $20 million in funding for Nexus, a next-generation, national-scale computational resource housed at Georgia Tech.

NCSA is part of the ACCESS program, which offers more than computing power to a nationwide network of researchers and educators.

NCSA’s Director, Bill Gropp, announces his retirement.

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NCSA’s Stephen Pietrowicz works with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Management team to help them manage the mountains of data they find in the night sky.

SPIN closes out a year of accomplishments and recognizes the outstanding work of the program’s interns and mentors.

Former NCSA student researchers win the Cozad New Venture Challenge for their innovative software solution designed to help democratize artificial intelligence computing resources.

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Carle Illinois College of Medicine student Mahima Goel won a $10,000 award for developing a scalp-cooling system to prevent hair loss in cancer patients.

The Association for Computing Machinery recognized Gropp for his work on MPICH, a high-performance and portable implementation of the Message Passing Interface.

Researchers from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, use NCSA’s Delta to help train and build an AI application for use in the field during search and rescue missions.

NASA awarded the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation $1 million to support the exploration of dark matter and dark energy.

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NCSA participated in this year’s Engineering Open House, showing the power of scientific research to visitors of all ages.

The Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation is developing a mobile app that analyzes complex nutritional data to help with individual health planning.

Seid Koric was awarded the 2025 Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

NCSA and Illinois Computes collaborated in research aiming to improve the monitoring systems of nuclear energy production.

University of Illinois researchers use machine learning to help with food security.

A study by NCSA and UICOMP scientists was published in the Journal of Acoustical Society of America.