Thought Leadership NCSA Director Bill Gropp on SC23, Future Path of HPC The Download: A Thought Leadership Series. February 5, 2024
Announcements NCSA Joins Newly Launched NAIRR Pilot A new NSF-led pilot launches an expansive effort to strengthen responsible AI development and research. January 29, 2024
Announcements NCSA, DDN Bringing New File System to NSF Community DDN Infinia will aid data management demands of NSF artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads on Delta and DeltaAI. December 20, 2023
Research Illinois Computes Enables Novel Engineering AI Research Researchers utilized domain and AI expertise along with computing resources through Illinois Computes to accurately and extremely efficiently predict thermal and mechanical responses for complex geometries and loads. December 18, 2023
Honors and Awards NCSA Awards Fiddler Innovation Fellowships to 10 Illinois Students Students in NCSA programs were recognized for their outstanding work and contributions to computational research in a variety of fields. December 14, 2023
Announcements NCSA’s DeltaAI System to be Powered by NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip The artificial intelligence-focused advanced computing and data resource is set to come online in 2024. November 29, 2023
Announcements NCSA Helps Found Trillion Parameter Consortium The new international consortium was formed to create trustworthy and reliable generative AI models for science. November 27, 2023
Publications Delta Helps Promote Open Science in Pre-training Speech Models Researchers utilized the power and speed of Delta to reproduce the development methodology for speech recognition applications. November 10, 2023
Announcements NCSA Welcomes 2023-24 Fellows A dozen NCSA Fellows are part of eight different projects funded by the NCSA Fellows program. October 12, 2023
In the News Five Years of Success with CDA Since its launch in 2018, the Center for Digital Agriculture has grown tremendously October 10, 2023
Research Delta Powers Student Research Student researchers at UIUC use their allocated time on Delta to refine Federated Learning models September 21, 2023
Thought Leadership NCSA Director Bill Gropp on the ‘Future of AI’ The Download: A Thought Leadership Series September 18, 2023
Profiles Undergraduate Researchers in Action Through NCSA’s expansive REU program, students get hands-on experience working on projects to solve current real-world problems. August 9, 2023
Funding NCSA Joins New Phase of Climate Project to Track Arctic Permafrost Thaw Led by the Woodwell Climate Research Center, the $5 million grant from Google.org will fund the expansion of a new, open-access resource that will use satellite data and AI/ML technology to track Arctic permafrost thaw more efficiently. July 19, 2023
Funding NCSA Awarded $10 Million For DeltaAI DeltaAI will triple NCSA’s AI-focused computing capacity and greatly expand the capacity available within the nationwide cyberinfrastructure ecosystem. July 5, 2023
Publications AI is Hot and NCSA Research is Making it Faster and More Accessible NCSA’s Seid Koric discusses a newly published paper on his work with AI June 27, 2023