“We are a land grant university. On our seal, we hold up labor and industry. The purpose of the Morrel Act was to work on problems that serve society. NCSA does that every day.” - Larry Smarr, former NCSA director youtu.be/5ryn3Ugdc-4

Larry Smarr at NCSA's 40th Anniversary

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The SC Conference Series recently profiled Maria Jaromin and her work on MarginDx, which combines optical imaging technologies with #AI screening tools to ensure, in real-time, that tumor tissue and cells are completely removed during surgery. #HPC #SC26 sc26.supercomputing.org/2026/09/behi...

Behind the Breakthroughs • SC26

Maria Jaromin unites researchers, expertise, and advanced computing that transforms ambitious ideas into solutions that can improve human health.

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Faculty, researchers and graduate students of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are invited to join NCSA on September 29 for a showcase of cutting-edge research and services during the 2026 NCSA Research Open House! Details: calendars.illinois.edu/detail/5001?...

It’s a wrap for the International #ResearchSoftware Conference. Thanks to our 110+ attendees, presenters & sponsors: @amazonwebservices.bsky.social, @softwaresaved.bsky.social, US NIH, @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social, @esciencecenter.bsky.social, NWO, @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, @society-rse.org.

NCSA is hosting an in-person “Regional Workshop on AI” on October 5-6 on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, designed to help researchers from around the Midwest move from AI curiosity to practical capability. #AI #Midwest #workshop More info: www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/09/14/t...

Women@NCSA invites you to join "WHY did they do that? Generational Differences," featuring Professional Speaker Faith Bresnan Roberts, RN, MSN, NEA-BC on Thursday, September 17 from 2-3 p.m. Event details and links: emails.illinois.edu/newsletter/8...

“NCSA not only shaped me and my career, but I saw it shape the way the world understands complex concepts. The impact of this has been felt at a state, national and international level.” - Edward Seidel, former NCSA director #NCSAat40 #HPC #research #innovation youtu.be/tuF0b-2t_gs

Ed Seidel at NCSA's 40th Anniversary

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Faculty, researchers and graduate students of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are invited to join NCSA on September 29 for a showcase of cutting-edge research and services during the 2026 NCSA Research Open House! Details: calendars.illinois.edu/detail/5001?...

NCSA’s student research programs highlight student innovation, mentorship and campus connections. #HPC #students #research www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/08/31/c...

Students in the Center for Digital Agriculture Research Experience for Undergraduates learned what collaboration looks like at a research-driven university. Read more: www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/08/26/c...

NCSA is one of five institutions assisting a new national initiative headed by UCLA to create iDLab, a unified environment for research computing, data and scientific applications across several NSF-supported national computing centers and two cloud platforms. www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/08/20/n...

Using ACCESS allocations on Delta at @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social, researchers have developed a new way to evaluate whether large language models are producing trustworthy plain-language explanations, helping address how people understand critical information. More: access-ci.org/fact-checkin...

Fact-Checking Large Language Models - Access

Researchers use ACCESS-allocated Delta to create new metric for accuracy.

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Women@NCSA invites you to join us August 17 at 3 p.m. via Zoom for "Tick Tock…Important Time for a Tick Talk," featuring @extension.illinois.edu Horticulture Educator Nancy Kuhajda. Details: calendars.illinois.edu/detail/7363/...

NCSA is pleased to host a regional, in-person machine learning (ML) workshop Oct. 5-6 designed to support academic researchers across disciplines who are either new to AI/ML or looking to build intermediate skills. Details: publish.illinois.edu/regional-ai/

Women@NCSA invites you to join us August 17 at 3 p.m. via Zoom for "Tick Tock…Important Time for a Tick Talk," featuring @extension.illinois.edu Horticulture Educator Nancy Kuhajda. Details: calendars.illinois.edu/detail/7363/...

Scenes from outside the conference center during #PEARC26 last week. #HPC #research #innovation #Minneapolis

The Personalized Nutrition Initiative has moved its home to NCSA thanks to a new two-year memorandum of understanding between the two groups designed to expand interdisciplinary research, strengthen industry partnerships and position the initiative to become a self-sustaining campus center.

As #PEARC26 wraps up today, we want to give a special thank you to Aliya Yabekova and Stacy Walker for organizing and facilitating the NCSA booth in the exhibitor hall. Congratulations on a successful conference!

How high up the (pancake) stack, indeed! Just things at #PEARC26.

The NCSA booth at #PEARC26 is off to a busy start during the first open day in the exhibitor hall! Come find us and pick up some swag if you're also in Minneapolis this week. #HPC #AI #research

AI is transforming scientific discovery, but how do researchers know the data can be trusted?   #iSchoolUI Research Scientist Anita Nikolich is leading VERITAS, a new $896k NSF-funded project to help detect compromised models and other weaknesses.   ▶️ bit.ly/4gWblPU

🥈 Meet our #ACM #PEARC26 Silver Exhibitors at Exhibitor Hall! #AuriStor : Secure, scalable distributed file systems #MarkIIISystems : AI, GenAI & HPC solutions as an #NVIDIA Elite Partner @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social : 40 years of advancing science through world-class infrastructure #RCD #HPC

Listen to former NCSA director Bill Gropp's thoughtful remarks during NCSA's 40th anniversary celebration. #NCSAat40 #HPC #research #innovation youtu.be/SLLJWrjPpZY

Bill Gropp at NCSA's 40th Anniversary

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Using NCSA's Delta supercomputer, researchers built a model that is five times faster at simulating a deadly, unpredictable stage of tropical cyclones. www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/07/13/m...

The ACCESS Student Training & Engagement Program (STEP-2) full-time summer internship kicked off June 8 with eight students coming together at @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (pictured here in front of NCSA's Delta). #HPC #EnablingDiscoveryForAll

“Computing as we know it — and much of the digital world we lean on every day — all began at the University of Illinois.” - Dan Reed, former NCSA director Listen to Dan's thoughtful remarks during NCSA's 40th anniversary celebration. #NCSAat40 #HPC #research #innovation youtu.be/Rr0W0uNQMz0

Dan Reed at NCSA's 40th Anniversary

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"NCSA resources provided valuable computation nodes for us to train a large model and conduct experiments efficiently. Previously, we needed to spend more than one month to train a model with 300 genes, but now we only need 10 days." - Tianyu Liu, Yale University access-ci.org/new-frontier...

New Frontiers in Precision Medicine - Access

Researchers from Yale University use ACCESS-allocated resources to build AI tools that decode individual genetic blueprints and map how genes interact within tissues over time.

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We’re delighted to welcome @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social as a partner of the International Research Software Conference! 🎉 Learn more about the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA): www.ncsa.illinois.edu Register for #IRSC26: tinyurl.com/IRSC-registr... #ResearchSoftware

For astronomers, researchers and space lovers across the globe, the wait is over. The Legacy Survey of Space and Time began its mission to create a decade-long movie of the southern sky by capturing large volumes of images and data from the Rubin Observatory. www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/06/30/c...

Researchers at NCSA and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign used a novel method to better understand and diagnose cancerous tumor heterogeneity. #HPC #research #partnerships #healthcare www.ncsa.illinois.edu/2026/06/23/m...