Loquercio’s team secured time on DeltaAI through @accessforci.bsky.social. “ACCESS resources allowed us to train drones across more than ten thousand parallel environments,” he said. "This is a very compute-heavy project. Without ACCESS, it would have taken much longer to get these results."
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.
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Enjoy a full day of engaging talks, reflections from visionary leaders and a look ahead at what’s next in high-performance computing and innovation.
Join us for a special event honoring four decades of groundbreaking research and technological advancement at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. From pioneering achievements to future-forward ideas, this is your chance to be part of an inspiring day of discovery and connection.
NCSA building
🚀 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!
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Engineering Open House 2026 booth
Engineering Open House 2026 booth
Engineering Open House 2026 booth
Engineering Open House 2026 booth
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.
Evolution pathways of post-detonation nanodiamonds into carbon nano-onions and carbon dots under extreme thermodynamic conditions following a detonation event. Structures are based on exascale molecular dynamics simulations and visually enhanced with AI to optimize the spatial arrangement, lighting and aesthetics. Credit: Eliu Huerta & Xiaoli Yan (Data Science and Learning Division at Argonne National Laboratory) and the ALCF Visualization and Data Analysis Team.
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
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🖥️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!
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ONE WEEK LEFT TO REGISTER for the 4th annual NCSA Students Research Conference on April 23 from 1 to 5 p.m. at NCSA!
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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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! Register by April 1.
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
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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.
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"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
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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
4th Annual NCSA Students Research Conference on April 23. Register by April 1.
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.
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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
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Here’s to a future filled with more visionary science, pioneering partnerships and discovery!
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.
We look forward to continuing conversations and partnerships that strengthen NCSA's capabilities and have a lasting impact on the state of Illinois and beyond!