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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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Supercomputing Simplified in the Age of AI

NCSA and Argonne National Laboratory have created a new framework to make using AI on supercomputers a plug-and-play process.
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NCSA To Help Facilitate TGI RAILS

Housed at the National Petascale Computing Facility on the Illinois campus, the Regional AI Learning System (RAILS) will be supported by NCSA.
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Santiago Núñez-Corrales on ‘NCSA’s Mission in Quantum Computing’

The Download: Expert Viewpoints.
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Chuck Thompson Named Director of Illinois Computes 

Former assistant dean and chief information officer at the Grainger College of Engineering returns to campus to lead Illinois Computes program into next era.
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The Rising Mists

Scientists from the University of Illinois use NCSA’s Delta to power the speed of their research on evapotranspiration.
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Welcome Chuck Pavloski to the Center

NCSA recently filled the position of Associate Director of Engagement.
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A New Tool for Modeling Materials

Illinois Computes brings a team together to use adaptive machine learning to model novel polymer production process.
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NSF Awards Additional $9.8 Million for Delta, DeltaAI

The additional NSF funding highlights a commitment to make NCSA’s integrated machine learning and artificial intelligence systems a premier resource for researchers nationwide.
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NCSA Visualizations Bring the Amazon to Life in Unprecedented Detail

Illinois Computes enables research on climate change based on water vapor patterns in Earth’s largest tropical rainforest.
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NCSA Welcomes Jessica Saw to the Center Stage!

Get to know some of our amazing staff in our profile series.
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SPIN Offers Real-World Applications to Students

NCSA’s Students Pushing INnovation (SPIN) lets undergraduates get involved, be valued and work with researchers on projects with wide-ranging applications.
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Homecoming

NCSA celebrates the return visit of the Center’s founder, Larry Smarr, with a retrospective look at his many accomplishments in cyberinfrastructure and research computing.
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Gropp Invested as Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering

NCSA Director Bill Gropp received investiture as Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering during ceremony April 30.
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NCSA Upgrades Granite to Expand Availability to ACCESS, Illinois Researchers

Granite’s capacity will increase 4.5 times and nearly double its performance thanks to a $500,000 NSF grant.
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NCSA’s Delta Prominent Choice of NAIRR Pilot Researchers

Delta will be used by a majority of the AI research projects utilizing NSF-funded advanced computing systems.
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DeltaAI Utilized in Groundbreaking Research Project to Democratize AI

NCSA’s new AI system will support Northeastern University researchers in their National Deep Inference Fabric project.
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Astrofest at NCSA

Researchers explored the cosmos at this annual CAPS event hosted by NCSA.
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Upcoming Seminar by NCSA Founder Larry Smarr

Join NCSA for a special seminar with founding director Larry Smarr.
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NCSA Awards 2024 Fiddler Innovation Fellowship

Carle Illinois College of Medicine student Nellie Haug wins $10,000 award for rapid cervical cancer screening test.
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Illinois Computes Adds GPUs to Radiant

The additional hardware strengthens the cloud-like system, offering greater capabilities to ICRN and University of Illinois researchers.
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NCSA Director Bill Gropp on What’s Next for Illinois Computes

The Download: A Thought Leadership Series.
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NCSA and I-Sci Explorers Inspiring Kids in STEAM

Illinois Science Explorers teams up with NCSA and four other campus institutes to get local kids excited about science.
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EOH 2024 at NCSA

NCSA hosted award-winning exhibits, scavenger hunts and future STEM researchers at this year’s Engineering Open House.
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Illinois Computes Hitting Its Stride

One year removed from its public announcement, Illinois Computes is establishing itself as a critical computing and support resource for University of Illinois researchers.
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Training Better STEM Communicators

Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub’s robust science writing internship program gives students hands-on experience creating engaging content.
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Bill Gropp Elected to AAAS Council

The American Association for the Advancement of Science recently announced a new leadership slate for the coming year.
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NCSA Welcomes Keith Norton to the Center Stage!

Get to know some of our amazing staff in our profile series.
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The Future of Digital Agriculture

The Center for Digital Agriculture showcased the many advancements in digital agriculture during its annual conference.

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