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NCSA Houses New DOE-funded Center Led by Illinois Aerospace Engineering

Posted on October 1, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

DOE awards $16.5M to NCSA and AE to develop Center for Exascale-Enabled Scramjet Design at UIUC.

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NCSA Supports IGB’s New NSF-funded Molecule Maker Lab Institute to Accelerate AI Research

Posted on September 4, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

NCSA’s Software Associate Director Kenton McHenry collaborates and shares expertise with MMLI team to advance molecular science.

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NCSA to Be Data Management Partner for New NSF CINet Grant

Posted on August 21, 2020October 6, 2025 by NCSA News Staff

This project will use two software tools developed by NCSA: the Clowder Framework and the Geostreaming Data Framework.

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DOE Awards $2.2M to Project at the Intersection of AI and High-Energy Physics Led by NCSA’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation

Posted on August 11, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

Illinois’ CAII leads a team of experts from UMN, MIT and UC San Diego for DOE-funded FAIR Framework for Physics-Inspired Artificial Intelligence in High Energy Physics project.

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C3.ai DTI Awards $5.4 Million for AI Research to Mitigate COVID-19

Posted on June 26, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

The C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute awards funding to 26 projects for research about COVID-19 and its impact on racial, economic, and healthcare disparities.

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NCSA and SMU Announce New Strategic Partnership

Posted on June 22, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

NCSA and SMU form partnership to promote advanced research computing.

NSF Awards NCSA $10 Million for Deployment of Delta

Posted on June 3, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

NCSA takes an active role in expanding the adoption of GPU-based computing and continues to be at the forefront of advanced research computing.

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NCSA and Compute Ontario Announce Partnership to Promote Advanced Research Computing

Posted on May 27, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

NCSA forms international partnership with Compute Ontario to leverage supercomputing assets and achieve common goals.

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NSF Awards NCSA Over $480,000 for the Development of Funcx

Posted on May 14, 2020October 6, 2025 by Meg Severson

This new “function-as-a-service” (FaaS) platform is hosted on the cloud and will enable researchers to build applications from functions that they can easily distribute across a variety of academic and commercial computing resources.

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Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub Collaborates to Bring Data Science Training Across the Region

Posted on May 5, 2020October 6, 2025 by NCSA News Staff

Workshops held by the Midwest Big Data Hub help to improve data skills across a variety of midwestern states.