University of Illinois

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, one of the five original centers in the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program, opened its doors in January 1986. Since then, NCSA has contributed significantly to the birth and growth of the worldwide cyber-infrastructure for science and engineering, operating some of the world's most powerful supercomputers and developing the software needed to efficiently use these systems (for example, NCSA Telnet and, in 1993, NCSA Mosaic™, the first readily available graphical Web browser). Today the center is recognized as an international leader in deploying robust high-performance computing resources and in working with research communities to develop new computing and software technologies.