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From the first popular graphic Web browser to ground-breaking research in medicine and astrophysics, we don’t just push the envelope, at NCSA we give it our own unique stamp, taking Illinois innovation into the forefront of research around the world.</p> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow" style="flex-basis:25%"> <section id="sidebar-block-block_45ada880c29d3af5892fb077ea40ffe0" class="sidebar-block"> <div class="sidebar-block__title"><h3></h3></div> <div class="sidebar-block__content"></div> </section> <section id="sidebar-block-block_2b5b3342365f6894aba53854c2d810e3" class="sidebar-block"> <div class="sidebar-block__title"><h3>Questions about NCSA’s history</h3></div> <div class="sidebar-block__content"><p><strong>Dina Meek</strong><br /> Interim Director, Marketing and Communications<br /> <a href="mailto:dinameek@illinois.edu">dinameek@illinois.edu</a></p> </div> </section></div> </div> <div style="height:51px" aria-hidden="true" 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https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Delta_System-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Delta_System.jpg 1440w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">Delta Fully Operational</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Following an external panel review by the National Science Foundation, </span><a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NCSA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> officially deployed </span><a href="http://delta.ncsa.illinois.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Delta</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, a graphics processing unit (GPU)-heavy compute cluster that was fully funded by NSF.</span></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/delta-now-fully-operational/">Read more about Delta</a></strong></p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-13325 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https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/NCSA031722_ACCESS_SM-1200x675-1.jpg 1201w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">National Science Foundation Awarded More Than $20M to NCSA for ACCESS Program</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The National Science Foundation made two awards to </span><a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NCSA</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as part of its Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services and Support program (ACCESS). </span><a href="https://access-ci.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ACCESS</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is the follow-on program to the NSF’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which NCSA led for 11 years.</span></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/national-science-foundation-awards-more-than-20m-to-ncsa-for-its-forthcoming-access-program/">Read more about ACCESS</a></strong></p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-1272 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="2021"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Jul</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">2021</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img decoding="async" width="866" height="600" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Donna.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Donna Cox portrait" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Donna.png 866w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Donna-300x208.png 300w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Donna-768x532.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">NCSA Chief Scholar Donna Cox Retires</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>July 31, 2021</h3> <p>Icon. Pioneer. Trailblazer. Mentor. These are some of the superlatives used to describe Chief Scholar and professor Donna J. Cox and her impact on art, science, technology, and society over the last four decades at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and <a href="http://illinois.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/the-donna-cox-legacy-inspiring-and-visualizing-the-future/">Read more about her life and legacy.</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-1404 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="2021"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Jun</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">2021</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="576" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/35yre_060721_des_precise-1024x576.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Photographed view of outer space" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/35yre_060721_des_precise-1024x576.png 1024w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/35yre_060721_des_precise-300x169.png 300w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/35yre_060721_des_precise-768x432.png 768w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/35yre_060721_des_precise.png 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">Dark Energy Survey Releases Most Precise Look at the Universe’s Evolution</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>June 7, 2021</h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">New results from the <a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/research/project-highlights/dark-energy-survey/">Dark Energy Survey</a> use the largest-ever sample of galaxies over an enormous piece of the sky to produce the most precise measurements of the universe’s composition and growth to date. Over the course of six years, DES surveyed 5,000 square degrees – almost one-eighth of the entire sky – in 758 nights of observation, cataloging hundreds of millions of objects. </span></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/dark-energy-survey-releases-most-precise-look-at-the-universes-evolution/">Read more about the research.</a></strong></p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-4394 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="2020"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Mar</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">2020</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="930" height="523" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cover_200326_c3.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Three quarter view of the Blue Waters supercomputer with its black panels in a brightly lit white room" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cover_200326_c3.jpg 930w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cover_200326_c3-300x169.jpg 300w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cover_200326_c3-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">NCSA Joins Nationwide Collaboration to Combat COVID-19</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>March 26, 2020</h3> <p>The National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the <a href="https://illinois.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign</a> are joining <a href="https://c3.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">C3.ai</a>, <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Microsoft Corporation</a>, and research institutions across the country as part of the <a href="https://c3.ai/c3-ai-microsoft-and-leading-universities-launch-c3-ai-digital-transformation-institute/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute</a>. The announcement of this institute was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/science/ai-versus-the-coronavirus.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made in <em>The New York Times</em></a>.</p> <p>This new institute, a multi-disciplinary effort focused on artificial intelligence and advanced computing, will initially accept proposals related to the abatement of COVID-19, and mitigating risks from future pandemics using AI.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/history-timeline/ncsa-joins-nationwide-collaboration-to-combat-covid-19/"><strong>Read more here.</strong></a></p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-4397 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="2019"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Aug</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">2019</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="838" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/REMASmall-1024x838.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Topographic greyscale map of Antarctica with NSF and NGA logos in the upper right corner" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/REMASmall-1024x838.jpg 1024w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/REMASmall-300x245.jpg 300w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/REMASmall-768x628.jpg 768w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/REMASmall.jpg 1500w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">NCSA Collaborates with NGA to Create the World’s Most Powerful Geospatial System</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>August 2, 2019</h3> <h3></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">NCSA announced a new collaboration between the </span><strong><a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/research/project-highlights/blue-waters/">Blue Waters Project</a></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the </span><strong><a href="https://www.nga.mil/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency</a></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the </span><strong><a href="https://twin-cities.umn.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Minnesota</a></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>The Ohio State University</strong></span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to produce digital elevation models (DEM) of the entire Earth, among other geospatial research projects.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The collaboration makes Blue Waters the most powerful dedicated, non-classified geospatial system in the world.</span></p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/ncsa-collaborates-with-nga-to-create-the-worlds-most-powerful-geospatial-system/">Read more about the collaboration here.</a></strong></p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-4400 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="2016"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Feb</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">2016</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="640" height="479" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/sidebar_160211_ligo.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Gravitational waves visualization forming yellow and blue ripples around a central object" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/sidebar_160211_ligo.jpg 640w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/sidebar_160211_ligo-300x225.jpg 300w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/sidebar_160211_ligo-580x435.jpg 580w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/sidebar_160211_ligo-368x276.jpg 368w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">Gravitational Waves Discovered</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>February 11, 2016</h3> <p>Scientists observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event. This confirmed a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity.</p> <p>Gravitational waves carry information about their origins and about the nature of gravity. Physicists have concluded that the detected gravitational waves were produced during the final moments of the merger of two black holes.</p> <p><a href="/gravitational-waves-detected-100-years-after-einsteins-prediction/">Read more about the discovery here.</a></p> <p> </p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-4404 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="2013"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Jan</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">2013</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="502" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gallery-21-1024x502.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Blue Waters supercomputer black storage drives in a white brightly lit room" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gallery-21-1024x502.png 1024w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gallery-21-300x147.png 300w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gallery-21-768x376.png 768w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gallery-21.png 1110w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">Blue Waters Opens for Science</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>January 1, 2013</h3> <p>Blue Waters is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world and is one of the fastest supercomputers on a university campus. Scientists and engineers across the country use the computing and data power of Blue Waters to tackle a wide range of challenging problems, from predicting the behavior of complex biological systems to simulating the evolution of the cosmos.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/research/project-highlights/blue-waters/">Read more about Blue Waters and the research it enables here.</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-4409 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="2011"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Jan</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">2011</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="576" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/92990-1024x576.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="XSEDE Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment logo in front of a light blue photorealistic starburst on a black background" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/92990-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/92990-300x169.jpg 300w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/92990-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/92990-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/92990-1756x988.jpg 1756w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/92990.jpg 1800w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">XSEDE Created</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>January 1, 2011</h3> <p>The <a href="https://xsede.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment</a> (XSEDE) is a powerful collection of integrated digital resources and services—things like supercomputers, visualization and storage systems, collections of data, software, networks, and expert support—that scientists, engineers, social scientists, and humanities experts around the world use to advance understanding of our world and to make our lives healthier, safer, and better. XSEDE integrates these resources and services, makes them easier to use, and helps more people use them. The five-year, $121 million project is supported by the National Science Foundation and led by NCSA.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/research/project-highlights/xsede/">Read more about XSEDE here.</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-1863 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="2010"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Mar</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">2010</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="576" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/35yre_031710_avl_hubble_3d-1024x576.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Visualization for NCSA's Advanced Visualization Lab of a galaxy in space from their film 'Hubble 3D'. The visualization contains depictions of galaxy gases and dust in orange, purple, and brown with surrounding stars in white" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/35yre_031710_avl_hubble_3d-1024x576.png 1024w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/35yre_031710_avl_hubble_3d-300x169.png 300w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/35yre_031710_avl_hubble_3d-768x432.png 768w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/35yre_031710_avl_hubble_3d.png 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">“Hubble 3D” Includes NCSA Visualizations</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>March 17, 2010</h3> <p>“Hubble 3D” takes viewers through distant galaxies as it tells the story of the repair and upgrade of the Hubble telescope. While most of the film is shot with IMAX 3D cameras, including live-action footage from the space shuttle, nearly a quarter of the movie’s run time is devoted to <a href="https://avl.ncsa.illinois.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NCSA Advanced Visualization Lab</a>’s two dramatic voyages. Comprising nearly 10 minutes of the 43-minute film, the sequences use real Hubble, astronomical, and computational data in visualizations that make audiences feel they are on a space journey.</p> <p>NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Laboratory used their dedicated visualization cluster and the center’s Abe supercomputer to develop and render the two scenes for the Hubble 3D project. The AVL cluster and the Abe supercomputer both use 64-bit Linux machines, with each machine having eight cores and 16 gigabytes of memory, comparable to a high-end PC or Mac such as a graphics designer might use.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/behind-the-scenes-of-hubble-3d/"><strong>Read more about how AVL achieved this here.</strong></a></p> <p> </p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-1459 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="2006"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Mar</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">2006</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="576" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/35yre_031006_klaus_lifeform-1024x576.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Portrait of Klaus Schulten and model of a virus" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/35yre_031006_klaus_lifeform-1024x576.png 1024w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/35yre_031006_klaus_lifeform-300x169.png 300w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/35yre_031006_klaus_lifeform-768x432.png 768w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/35yre_031006_klaus_lifeform.png 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">NCSA Researcher Simulates Entire Life Form</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>March 10, 2006</h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s a simple little virus—so simple that biologists often refer to it as a “particle” rather than an organism, so small and primitive that it can only proliferate in a cell that’s already been hijacked by another virus. But a recent simulation of the satellite tobacco mosaic virus is also a striking first. There’s never been a computer simulation of an entire life form in atomic detail. Until now.</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/ncsa-researcher-simulates-entire-life-form/"><strong>Read about the research here.</strong></a></p> <section id="accordion-block-block_1bcbaf6b592ca2390225a488fae00b24" class="accordion-block js-accordion" data-accordion-prefix-classes="accordion-block"> </section> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-4413 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="2004"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Nov</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">2004</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="400" height="440" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/tornado.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Screenshot from the Hunt for the Supertwister Documentary of a tornado visualization closeup of grey clouds and orange, blue, and yellow data points within the funnel" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/tornado.jpg 400w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/tornado-273x300.jpg 273w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">NOVA’s ‘Hunt For The Supertwister’ Airs</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>November 8, 2004</h3> <p>The TV series ‘NOVA’ focused on the search for understanding nature’s most violent tornadoes, from daredevil storm chasing in tornado alley to simulating severe weather with the computational resources and visualization expertise of NCSA at the <a href="https://illinois.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign</a>.</p> <p>“Hunt for the Supertwister” was aired nationally on PBS stations across the country. The show featured data-driven tornado visualizations produced by NCSA’s Experimental Technologies Division.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/hunt-for-the-supertwister/">Read more here.</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-4419 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="2003"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">May</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">2003</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="600" height="451" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/steffen-ps2-1.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="2003 photograph of Craig Steffen standing next to a cluster of Playstation 2 consoles at NCSA" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/steffen-ps2-1.jpg 600w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/steffen-ps2-1-300x226.jpg 300w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/steffen-ps2-1-580x435.jpg 580w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/steffen-ps2-1-368x276.jpg 368w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">NCSA Creates Sony PlayStation2 Cluster</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>May 27, 2003</h3> <p>When Sony released the Linux Kit for the PlayStation® 2 (PS2) game console, interest in the machines spread beyond the gaming community to a seemingly unlikely place: the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.</p> <p>Researchers at NCSA theorized that because of the unique processor of the PS2, a cluster of consoles could potentially be used for scientific computation.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/playing-the-supercomputer-game/">Read more here.</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-4428 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="2001"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Aug</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">2001</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="576" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_090821_teragrid-1024x576.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="NSF TeraGrid physical map of the United States with orange lines branching out to connect UC/ANL, NCSA, IU, PU, ORNL, PSC, UT, and SDSC" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_090821_teragrid-1024x576.png 1024w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_090821_teragrid-300x169.png 300w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_090821_teragrid-768x432.png 768w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_090821_teragrid.png 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">NSF Creates TeraGrid</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>August 9, 2001</h3> <p>The <a href="http://nsf.gov" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Science Foundation</a> has awarded $53 million to four U.S. research institutions to build and deploy a distributed terascale facility. The DTF will be the largest, most comprehensive infrastructure ever deployed for scientific research—with more than 13.6 teraflops (trillions of calculations per second) of computing power as well as facilities capable of managing and storing more than 450 terabytes (trillions of bytes) of data.</p> <p><a href="/nsf-creates-teragrid/">Read more about TeraGrid here.</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-4431 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="1999"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Aug</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">1999</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="600" height="400" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/nds.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="NCSA Blue Waters Computation Facility" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/nds.jpg 600w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/nds-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">NCSA Hits One Million CPU Hours in a Month</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>August 31, 1999</h3> <p>Marked the first time usage of a National Science Foundation high-performance computer topped one million normalized CPU hours in one month. According to figures from Quantum Research, which measures computer usage at NSF-support sites, NCSA’s 1,536-processor SGI Origin2000 supercomputer provided 1,136,676 normalized CPU hours to 736 national users in August, tripling the usage from August 1998. A normalized CPU hour is equivalent to a Cray X-MP processor hour, based on standard benchmarks.</p> <p><a href="/ncsa-hits-one-million-cpu-hours-in-a-month/">Read more here.</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-4437 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="1998"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Nov</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">1998</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="576" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_110298_newsweek_mention-1024x576.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Newsweek November 1998 magazine cover on a light teal background with abstract white lines and connecting dots" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_110298_newsweek_mention-1024x576.png 1024w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_110298_newsweek_mention-300x169.png 300w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_110298_newsweek_mention-768x432.png 768w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_110298_newsweek_mention.png 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">Newsweek Features NCSA</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>November 2, 1998</h3> <p>At the height of the tech surge that marked the late 1998, Newsweek asked: “Can any place ever hope to match the awesome success of Silicon Valley?” It then proceeded to answer its own question by rattling off 10 metro areas that might someday fit the bill. Champaign-Urbana—thanks in no small part to NCSA, which was featured in the article—made the cut.</p> <p><a href="https://ncsamainsite.web.illinois.edu//newsweek-features-ncsa/">Read more here.</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-1412 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="1993"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Jan</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">1993</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="576" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/35yre_012393_mosaic_throbber-1024x576.gif" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Screenshot of NCSA MOSAIC computer interface" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/35yre_012393_mosaic_throbber-1024x576.gif 1024w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/35yre_012393_mosaic_throbber-300x169.gif 300w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/35yre_012393_mosaic_throbber-768x432.gif 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">NCSA Mosaic is Released</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>January 3, 1993</h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">People had created Web browsers before. Prior to anyone at NCSA putting down a line of code, researchers in Palo Alto and Berkeley and Helsinki were circulating their own versions of browsers, frequently with melodious names like Viola and Cello.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">NCSA Mosaic broke out in a way that no previous browser had even begun to. It stood on the shoulders of giant ideas and became a giant in its own right.</span></p> <p><a href="/project-highlights/ncsa-mosaic/">More about the Mosaic Web Browser</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-4440 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="1992"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Jan</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">1992</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="576" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_011092_eli_lilly_cray-1024x576.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Collage of a drug simulation next to a photograph of one of the first supercomputers" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_011092_eli_lilly_cray-1024x576.png 1024w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_011092_eli_lilly_cray-300x169.png 300w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_011092_eli_lilly_cray-768x432.png 768w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_011092_eli_lilly_cray.png 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">Eli Lilly Develops Asthma Drug</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>January 10, 1992</h3> <p>David Herron of Eli Lilly and Company harnessed high-performance computing to aid the fight against asthma from the moment the company joined NCSA’s Industrial Program, now the Private Sector Program, in 1987. Herron and the Lilly research team studied a class of small molecules known as leukotrienes, which cause the lungs to stiffen and become irritated. Lilly’s goal was to develop receptor antagonists that recognize receptors in the lungs, bind to them, and block the leukotrienes. In other words, they wanted to build something that looked enough like the leukotrienes that a receptor accepts it but different enough that it doesn’t trigger a reaction.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/eli-lilly-develops-asthma-drug/">Read more here.</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-4443 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="1991"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Jan</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">1991</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="576" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_011591_3d_mummy-1024x576.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Black and white image of dark office space with computer monitor showing a visualization of how the mummy may have appeared when still living. Second top image a computer scan of the mummy's scull looking down. Third image a scan of the mummy's skull looking up." srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_011591_3d_mummy-1024x576.png 1024w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_011591_3d_mummy-300x169.png 300w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_011591_3d_mummy-768x432.png 768w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/35yre_011591_3d_mummy.png 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">3D Volumetric Rendering of Mummy</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>January 15, 1991</h3> <p>Mummies don’t make their way to Central Illinois that often; when one does, you hate to destroy it while unraveling its secrets. The University of Illinois’ World Heritage Museum received a donated Egyptian mummy in 1989. An interdisciplinary team, including NCSA, then worked to better understand the mummification process and to determine the mummy’s age, sex, medical history, and cause of death.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/3d-volumetric-rendering-of-mummy/">Read more here.</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-4446 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="1989"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Jul</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">1989</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="600" height="429" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/tstorm.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Screenshot of a thunderstorm visualization with blue, grey, and black clouds on a white and grey grid" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/tstorm.jpg 600w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/tstorm-300x215.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">Thunderstorm Visualization Debuts at SIGGRAPH</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>July 15, 1989</h3> <p>A thunderstorm visualization from NCSA’s Matthew Arrott and Bob Wilhelmson made its debut at the annual SIGGRAPH Conference, showing the possibilities of data-driven visualization with the power of supercomputing.</p> <p><a href="https://ncsa.illinois.edu/thunderstorm-visualization-debuts-at-siggraph/">Read more about the visualization here.</a></p> </div> </article> <article class="col-12 history-timeline-post post-1274 history-timeline type-history-timeline status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry" data-year="1986"> <div class="history-timeline__date"> <span class="history-timeline-post__month">Jan</span> <span class="history-timeline-post__year">1986</span> </div> <figure class="wp-block-post-featured-image"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="1024" height="576" src="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/35yre_011586_larry_proposal-1024x576.png" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Photograph of Larry Smarr in 1986, the first director of NCSA, next to a Cray supercomputer along with a photographed cover of the original "A Center for Scientific and Engineering Supercomputing" proposal with the University of Illinois seal" srcset="https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/35yre_011586_larry_proposal-1024x576.png 1024w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/35yre_011586_larry_proposal-300x169.png 300w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/35yre_011586_larry_proposal-768x432.png 768w, https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/35yre_011586_larry_proposal.png 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /> </figure> <h2 class="wp-block-post-title">National Center for Supercomputing Applications Opens</h2> <div class="wp-block-post-content"><h3>January 16, 1986</h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Responding to a ‘famine’ of supercomputing power for U.S. researchers, Illinois astrophysicist Larry Smarr and seven Illinois colleagues submitted an unsolicited proposal to the National Science Foundation, asking for funding to launch supercomputing centers. NSF responded in 1985 by establishing the National Center for Supercomputing Applications with Smarr as its first director. 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