National Center for Supercomputing Applications Email Format
Research ServicesIllinois, United States201-500 Employees
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) operates as a research services hub within the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Based in Urbana, Illinois, it brings together researchers, industry partners, and students to tackle complex problems through advanced digital environments. For about three decades, NCSA has focused on enabling collaboration and innovation across science and society, supported by a broad set of data and computing resources. Its work encompasses notable projects such as enabling the milestone detection of gravitational waves, computational design of antibody prototypes to detect Ebola virus, and simulations that support HIV therapy research. The organization maintains a private sector program that promotes industry collaborations and scalable solutions. In a recent development, researchers affiliated with NCSA and the university advanced a deep learning approach based on a virtual sensing digital twin, trained on an NVIDIA GH200-powered DeltaAI HPC cluster, to monitor inaccessible nuclear reactor locations in real time.