Honors and Awards NCSA Receives Honors in 2021 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards Eleventh Year NCSA is Recognized by HPCwire Awards, Given to Leaders in the Global High-Performance Computing Community. November 15, 2021
Announcements NCSA Introduces a New Way to Manage Data Taiga system offers more affordable, seamless moving and storage. October 27, 2021
Science Features Radiant Takes on the Cloud NCSA’s Radiant system helps researchers manage data through the cloud, offering significant cost savings. September 3, 2021
Announcements Researchers Selected for Delta External Advisory Committee Group will help guide project’s growth and development August 30, 2021
Announcements NCSA Releases Latest Blue Waters Project Annual Report Dive into the groundbreaking research being done on Blue Waters, from astrophysics to biology. September 15, 2020
Announcements NSF Awards NCSA $10 Million for Deployment of Delta NCSA takes an active role in expanding the adoption of GPU-based computing and continues to be at the forefront of advanced research computing. June 3, 2020
Announcements NCSA Allocates Over 21 Million Node Hours in New Blue Waters Supercomputer Awards Over $13 million worth of allocations in Blue Waters supercomputer awards have been given to researchers and faculty at Illinois studying a diversity of topics. February 28, 2020
Honors and Awards NCSA and Partners Win Hpcwire Editors’ Choice Award for Earthdem Collaboration NCSA has been awarded the Best Academic/Government collaboration award for EarthDEM, a collaboration with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency that seeks to create digital elevation models of the entire Earth. November 20, 2019
Announcements New Broadening Participation Allocations Now Available on Blue Waters Supercomputer—Apply by March 1 This new category is open to faculty and research staff at U.S. academic institutions who have not previously been a PI on a research allocation on the Blue Waters system. February 7, 2018
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
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