The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has received the 2025 HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards for its outstanding research in artificial intelligence and energy systems. NCSA's premier supercomputing systems Delta and DeltaAI were utilized in two different domains, including a novel AI-based approach to m...
Bill Gropp, Director of National Center for Supercomputing Applications, has been selected as chair of the Computing Research Association's Computing Community Consortium (CCC), succeeding Nadya Bliss. He will serve through June 30, 2028, and focus on enabling bold, collaborative computing research relevant to national priorities.
The platform allows users to create personalized LLM-based chatbots, serving as a 24/7 teaching assistant or scraping campus websites to find needed resources. Illinois Chat has already been utilized in various departments and research groups, providing valuable feedback to make it more practical.
A team of researchers is using NCSA resources to simulate the long-term progression of atrial fibrillation, a type of irregular heartbeat. By modeling the heart's electrical activity, they have uncovered a vicious cycle where adaptations to maintain calcium balance lead to continued arrhythmias and eventually a permanent condition.
Georgia Tech is building a new artificial intelligence-centered supercomputer called Nexus, which will integrate cutting-edge hardware and software services to unify scientific research workflows. NCSA is lending its expertise to assist in the development of this national-scale computational resource.
Tandemn, a distributed-GPU network, aims to lower costs and barriers to GPU access while providing owners with possible users for their underutilized resources. The startup secured $1.5 million in funding from private investors after winning the Cozad New Venture Challenge.
The Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII) will utilize the Detection, Instance Segmentation and Classification with Deep Learning (DeepDISC) framework to analyze blended galaxies in the Euclid space mission. This innovation aims to improve the accuracy of scientific outputs and quantify uncertainty in predictions.
Bill Gropp received the 2024 ACM Software System Award for his role in developing MPICH, a widely-used implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard. The award recognizes MPICH's lasting influence and commercial acceptance, with over 30 years of support for researchers
A novel machine learning-driven approach uses deep-learning operator-surrogate models to monitor critical degradation indicators in nuclear power facilities. This technique provides real-time predictions and addresses limitations of physical sensors or classical modeling predictions.
Researchers at NCSA and UICOMP have created an improved, automated screening method for anxiety and depression disorders using machine learning and acoustic analysis of verbal fluency data. The new tool offers promise for overcoming barriers to diagnosis and treatment.
Crop mapping uses satellite imagery to create accurate crop type maps in various regions. The research team trained machines to recognize crops from satellite images, achieving high accuracy rates. However, models pre-trained on general image datasets performed better than those pre-trained on satellite images.
The U.S. research ecosystem, fueled by high-performance computing, is facing a critical moment due to slow infrastructure growth and funding cuts. The National Science Foundation's staffing cuts will slow down the process of innovation, potentially harming the country's competitive edge in research.
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has been awarded a grant to continue its Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, which provides students with hands-on experience in machine learning and deep learning projects. The program aims to develop open source machine learning models and tools and apply them to r...
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications awarded 17 students Fiddler Innovation Fellowships for their outstanding contributions to student and faculty interdisciplinary research initiatives. The fellows worked on various projects, including quantum-resistant security measures and artificial intelligence productivity engines.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has received USGIF accreditation for its online graduate certificate and master's degree in CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science. The partnership will train students to address large-scale problems using geospatial sciences, mathematical and statistical sciences, and cyberinfrastructure.
A study by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications aims to create personalized nutrition plans based on an individual's unique gut microbiome. The researchers used Illinois Computes to analyze metabolomic data and develop a database of metabolites that can help diagnose diseases more efficiently.
NCSA is leading the way in AI research support, partnering with the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot and the NSF-Simons SkAI Institute. The organization is also working on healthcare projects like MarginDX, combining optical imaging technologies with AI screening tools to ensure accurate tumor removal during sur...
NCSA launches Harbor, a fast storage service for global home and software directories, boosting Delta system performance by 400%. Consolidating file systems to VAST namespace improved uptime, load times, and user experience. With Harbor and VAST Data Platform, NCSA achieves scalable and efficient AI infrastructure.
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has received the Readers' Choice Award: Best HPC Collaboration and Editors' Choice: Best Use of HPC in Physical Sciences. This is the 14th consecutive year NCSA has been honored with an HPCwire award.
DeltaAI enables scientists and researchers to address the world's most challenging problems by accelerating complex AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing applications. The system will quadruple NCSA's AI-focused computing capacity and expand the NSF-funded advanced computing ecosystem.
Researchers at NCSA have presented a novel post-quantum cryptography network instrument to measure PQC adoption rates and ensure secure data safeguarding. The project's findings indicate that only OpenSSH and Google Chrome have successfully implemented PQC, achieving an initial adoption rate of 0.029%.
Researchers use high-resolution computer simulations and terabytes of data to detect faint signals from the Epoch of Reionization, providing insights into galaxy formation. The study sets an upper limit on when the EoR likely ended, offering a new parameter for scientists to work with as they continue to investigate the early universe.
Scientists used Delta's GPU-based architecture to study the life cycle of the Hepatitis B virus, revealing how it binds human proteins called importins. The research provides a platform for developing inhibitors that could block this interaction and prevent the virus from accessing the nucleus.