The Personalized Nutrition Initiative (PNI) has moved its home to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) thanks to a new two-year memorandum of understanding between the two groups designed to expand interdisciplinary re…
Tropical cyclones are known by many names – hurricanes in the Atlantic and Northeast Pacific, and typhoons in the Northwest Pacific. They are some of the most powerful weather events on the planet. When a cyclone spins toward land, millions…
Researchers gained new insights into the essential processes of life by simulating the full cycle of a bacterial cell on NCSA’s Delta supercomputer. R. Srikant took over responsibilities as NCSA director at the start of 2026. Help Desk is a…
Since 2012, we’ve been a part of bold institutional partnerships designed to accelerate research, including the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute. Through these unique collaborations, we bring the best minds together to solve the world…
At NCSA we enable game-changing research through world-class support that’s there for you, every step of the way. Whether that means financial support, staffing assistance or connecting you with a software development team that makes your p…
From Copernicus to Galileo, early astronomers once used simple tools to explore the mysteries of the universe. Today we chart the movement of entire galaxies light-years from our own, using sophisticated data analysis and our vast computati…
Every night, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will produce 20 terabytes of raw image data. And every day, the data will be processed in near-real-time, tracking unexpected events unfolding in the universe and creating a 500-petabyte archive fo…
Since being founded by the National Science Foundation and the state of Illinois in 1986, NCSA has been a leader in advanced computing, software, data, networking and visualization resources. As supercomputing has become more essential to r…
The human body is infinitely complex and health is affected by everything from the genes that dictate the color of our eyes and our risk for disease, to the food we eat, our behavior and our environment. At NCSA we help researchers decode i…
NCSA offers assistance from 7:00am to 11:30pm, seven days a week, 365 days a year via our Help Desk for all your needs. Research Consulting supports users of resources located at NCSA and elsewhere. NCSA training and consultations ensure th…
Becoming an affiliate with NCSA gives you direct access to NCSA research scientists, staff and services. NCSA has a wealth of experience working with our affiliates to accelerate their research with top-of-the-line compute and cyberinfrastr…
From natural language processing to drug discovery, artificial intelligence is playing an increasing role in our daily lives. That’s why we’ve created an entire center dedicated to this emerging field, centralizing research and synergizing