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We've got a stacked lineup for celebrating 40 Years of Innovation at NCSA! Join us to commemorate four decades of groundbreaking research and technological advancement. 📅 Thursday, April 30, 2026 ⏰ 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. CT 📍 NCSA Auditorium + Virtual Details: calendars.illinois.edu/detail/7097?...

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Antonio Loquercio and researchers from University of Pennsylvania used their #supercomputing allocation on NCSA's DeltaAI to train #AI agents more effectively by pitting them against each other in flying competitions. www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/04/21/m...

🚀 Celebrate 40 Years of Innovation at NCSA! 🎉 📅 Thursday, April 30, 2026 ⏰ 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. CT 📍 NCSA Auditorium (1205 W. Clark St., Urbana) + Virtual 👉 Mark your calendar and be part of the celebration. Refreshments and lunch included! More info: calendars.illinois.edu/detail/7097?...

Poster presentations, crafts and hands-on discovery were all part of NCSA’s participation in this year’s Engineering Open House. See everything that happened in this photo essay! www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/04/14/e...

Last Friday, NCSA participated in the 2026 Engineering Open House, the annual outreach event organized by students from The Grainger College of Engineering. We're so glad so many stopped by to interact with NCSA researchers and students and learn about cutting-edge research!

Can't wait for tomorrow! Swing by the NCSA building for the 2026 Engineering Open House.

Researchers used advanced computing at NCSA to determine how carbon atoms behave under different pressures and temperatures. #HPC Read: www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/04/06/n...

Ishika Agarwal and a team of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign used an ACCESS allocation on Delta at @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social to help prove that sometimes less data is better when training #AI chatbots. #HPC #EnablingDiscoveryForAll access-ci.org/less-is-some...

🖥️DeltaAI Transforms Imaging into Rapid Diagnosis🖥️: A collaboration of researchers from around the country used NCSA’s DeltaAI to create OPENPROS, the first large-scale, public dataset designed to improve prostate cancer detection. Read the story! www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/03/31/f...

ONE WEEK LEFT TO REGISTER for the 4th annual NCSA Students Research Conference on April 23 from 1 to 5 p.m. at NCSA! This event is also a great opportunity to explore NCSA research areas and connect with NCSA researchers and students, just register to attend! calendars.illinois.edu/detail/5001?...

Members of the Great Lakes to Gulf (GLTG) initiative have helped document a 20-year decline in nitrate pollution across portions of the Mississippi River Basin. NCSA is proud to be a partner of GLTG and assist in these environmental efforts. aces.illinois.edu/news/study-s...

Researchers at MechSE and @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social have solved a previously unsolvable materials design problem using generative AI. Read more: mechse.illinois.edu/news/81565

Researchers used NCSA’s Delta & DeltaAI supercomputers to test a new AI-powered framework that analyzes data from gravitational waves and radio astronomy. It could transform how we study cosmic events like neutron star mergers. Read the story! www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/03/23/t...

Learn how NCSA has implemented Open OnDemand, a browser-based interface designed by the Ohio Supercomputer Center, to simplify access to high-performance computing systems across a national research community. www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/03/17/s...

Researchers at the University of Illinois and the Science and Technology Center for Quantitative Cell Biology have gained new insights into the essential processes of life by simulating the full cycle of a bacterial cell on NCSA’s Delta supercomputer. www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/03/10/s...

Join us for the 4th annual NCSA Students Research Conference on April 23 from 1 to 5 p.m. at NCSA! Undergraduate and graduate students working with NCSA researchers or NCSA faculty affiliates are invited to present! Register by April 1. #HPC #students calendars.illinois.edu/detail/5001?...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign used NCSA’s Delta supercomputer to help prove that sometimes less data is better when training AI chatbots. Their new framework DELIFT trains AI to be “smarter” about what data is used in the training. www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/03/04/l...

"NCSA’s Delta system provided the #GPU capability, scale and support we needed to survey physically realistic simulations of the galactic center. Access to these resources made an otherwise computationally prohibitive study feasible." - Vedant Dhruv, research fellow access-ci.org/smoothing-th...

Join NCSA on Friday, April 10 for the 2026 Engineering Open House (EOH)! Organized by engineering students on campus, EOH is your opportunity to learn about the cutting-edge research taking place at NCSA and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. More info: www.eohillinois.org

Register by April 1 to attend and participate in the 4th Annual NCSA Students Research Conference on April 23! This event will feature oral presentations, a poster session and the opportunity to interact with industry partners at an industry panel and dinner. calendars.illinois.edu/detail/5001?...

A picture is worth a thousand words or, in this case, billions of calculations. With help from @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social, Drs. Emad Tajkhorshid, Hale Şiir Hasdemir, and PhD candidates Yupeng Li and Carlos Cuellar revealed how membrane transport proteins in E. coli function. (Story link in bio)

Researchers at the University of Illinois used NCSA’s Delta supercomputer to run simulations of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, called Sagittarius A*. It's “quieter” than simulations normally indicate. Find out why! #DataScience www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/02/18/d...

We recommend perusing this interesting piece featuring NCSA's @caps-ncsa.bsky.social Director Joaquin Vieira and the 10-year anniversary of the monthly public lecture series Astronomy on Tap! Congratulations on a decade of engaging #astronomy discussion! astro.illinois.edu/news/2026-02...

NCSA is a familiar place for its new director, R. Srikant. His countless research collaborations between his home department in @uofigrainger.bsky.social and the high-performance computing experts at NCSA set the stage for a successful tenure. www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/02/10/s...

NCSA and the Center for AstroPhysical Surveys (CAPS) helped power the Dark Energy Survey's most comprehensive expansion history analysis. NCSA provided infrastructure to manage and store images and data, quality control and extensive compute resources. www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/02/03/n...

This month, NCSA celebrated its 40th anniversary! In 1985, Illinois astrophysicist Larry Smarr and 7 colleagues submitted an unsolicited proposal to the National Science Foundation asking for funding to launch supercomputing centers. NCSA “opened for business” in early 1986.

Many thanks to @govpritzker.illinois.gov for taking some time last week to tour the National Petascale Computing Facility and discuss #AI, #quantum computing, facilities and more with NCSA and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign leadership.

ONE WEEK LEFT to submit nominations for the $10,000 Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Award for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Innovation. Open until this Sunday, February 1 for University of Illinois undergraduate and graduate students. #illinois #HPC More info: emails.illinois.edu/newsletter/8...

Through ACCESS allocations, "NCSA resources helped our team fast-track the algorithm development and data analysis of both machine learning and deep learning models for use in state anxiety detection." - Manuel Hernandez, Carle Illinois College of Medicine access-ci.org/using-hpc-to...

Illinois is renowned worldwide as a hub of scientific research, education, and innovation. It’s in no small part thanks to the work being done here at the UIUC’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

Researchers at the Center for AstroPhysical Surveys (CAPS) used the #SouthPoleTelescope to probe the crowded inner #MilkyWayGalaxy. They uncovered powerful, short-lived bursts of light from two known accreting white dwarf systems. Read the story! www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/01/20/r...

Researchers at the University of Illinois used NCSA’s #Delta supercomputer to develop wearable technology to monitor anxiety in real-time. The research processed data from wearable devices, such as ECGs, which enabled the analysis of months of data in minutes. www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/01/13/u...

Nominations for the $10,000 Fiddler Innovation Fellowship Award for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Innovation are open until February 1 for University of Illinois undergraduate and graduate students. More info: emails.illinois.edu/newsletter/8...

Happy holidays and all the very best in the New Year!

Check out DeltaAI's new look! An impactful vinyl design for an impactful #AI system.

As the end of 2025 nears, NCSA Director Bill Gropp reminisces on his noteworthy career in high-performance computing and computer science, which includes nearly a decade of leading NCSA, and takes a hopeful look into the future of #HPC in The Download: www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2025/12/15/n...

Researchers at the University of Illinois used NCSA’s #Delta supercomputer to model and understand soccer ball flight, exploring how the perfect arc can lead to a goal. Learn how Delta made this research possible in this story! www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2025/12/10/t...

Researcher and professor Stephen Boppart provides an update on the MarginDX prototype, an optical imaging technology, funded by ARPA-H, that uses #AI screening tools in real time to ensure that tumor tissue and cells are completely removed during surgery. www.wcia.com/video/u-of-i...

ACCESS is helping maximize genetic research through large allocations on a number of #supercomputing systems across Researchers used ACCESS allocations to explore a breakthrough in capturing and controlling the movement of genes. #HPC #EnablingDiscoveryForAll access-ci.org/maximizing-g...

After some additional digging, we're now up to 36 accepted conference submissions of research that utilized Delta and/or DeltaAI!

NCSA is proud to welcome Director of Administration and Operations Theo Long to the Center Stage! Learn all about Theo's role, hobbies and family in this profile of this member of NCSA's leadership team. Meet Theo: www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2025/12/01/n...

The 39th annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems is taking place this week and NCSA’s Delta and DeltaAI resources will be highlighted in more than 20 presentations! Check out this sweeping variety of research aided by Delta and DeltaAI: delta.ncsa.illinois.edu/delta-and-de...

Congratulations to the ACCESS-affiliated resource providers (RPs) that took home HPCwire awards during #SC25 last month! access-ci.org/an-award-win...

NCSA Director Bill Gropp was interviewed in a recent HPCwire profile while attending last week’s #SC25. Although he's stepping down from his role at NCSA, he'll remain a familiar face in the HPC community and continue advocating for advanced computing research. www.hpcwire.com/2025/11/21/w...

That’s a wrap! We have enjoyed meeting so many people at #SC25, and we can’t wait for Chicago next year for #SC26. See you there!

NCSA was recognized for its outstanding achievements in two categories in the annual #HPCwireRCA25 awards announced at #SC25. Both awards centered on research that used NCSA’s premier supercomputing systems #Delta and #DeltaAI. Read the story! ncsa.illinois.edu/2025/11/19/n...

🔥🔥Come get your hot, hot, hot NCSA swag at the #SC25 booth, number 1340. Try your luck at “Illinko” for a chance to win some of these premium items, while supplies last!🔥🔥

Good work at @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social's Center for AI Innovation is being recognized internationally 🙂