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NCSA and University of Illinois leadership with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker in front of the Delta supercomputer.

Srikant Named NCSA’s New Director

Posted on February 10, 2026February 10, 2026 by Andrew Helregel

R. Srikant took over responsibilities as NCSA director at the start of 2026.

The Blanco Telescope in the Andes mountains appearing in front of a vivid black and blue night sky with thousands of bright stars that add an orange golden light on the sky's horizon

NCSA, CAPS Power Dark Energy Survey’s Most Comprehensive Expansion History Analysis

Posted on February 3, 2026February 3, 2026 by Andrew Helregel

Data processed and served by NCSA enabled the Dark Energy Survey’s most detailed analysis of cosmic expansion.

Researchers Use South Pole Telescope to Detect Energetic Stellar Flares Near the Center of the Milky Way

Posted on January 20, 2026January 20, 2026 by NCSA News Staff

Researchers at the Center for AstroPhysical Surveys (CAPS) used the South Pole Telescope to peer deep into the center of the Milky Way and discovered powerful, surprising bursts of light from two accreting white dwarf systems, marking the first time such events have been captured in a blind millimeter-wavelength survey and opening a new window onto the dynamic environments at the center of the galaxy.

NCSA Director Bill Gropp on ‘Imagining an HPC Utopia’

Posted on December 15, 2025December 12, 2025 by NCSA News Staff

The Download: A Thought Leadership Series.

Members of NCSA and the University of Illinois receive their HPCwire awards.

NCSA Receives Honors in 2025 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

Posted on November 19, 2025November 21, 2025 by Andrew Helregel

NCSA was recognized by the HPCwire community for its outstanding work in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.

A glowing DNA double helix sits atop a computer chip. Meant to convey the use of HPC in genetics research.

Capturing and Controlling the Movement of Genes

Posted on November 11, 2025November 10, 2025 by Megan Meave Johnson

Researchers use supercomputers, including Delta, to build an atom-thin platform to film DNA in real-time.

Bill Gropp Named Chair of CRA’s Computing Community Consortium

Posted on October 29, 2025October 29, 2025 by Andrew Helregel

National Center for Supercomputing Applications Director Bill Gropp was selected as the next chair of the Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC). Gropp will formally begin his term following approval from the U.S. National Science Foundation, serving in the role through June 30, 2028. Gropp joined the CCC in 2020 and has been a […]

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