Davis Applauds NSF Grant to UI National Center for Supercomputing Applications

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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill) today applauded that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $10,000,000 to The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for a project titled Crossing the Divide Between Today's Practice and Tomorrow's Science. This award is part of NSF's Innovative High-Performance Computing (HPC) program.

The project will focus on launching Delta which is an advanced computing and data resource that will also seek to increase the productivity and usability of advanced computing resources more broadly through advances to modern interfaces and accessibility features. The system will be made available nationally for a variety of uses, including complex research workflows and real-time science results.

"The NCSA has been a stalwart for advanced computing research for decades," Davis said. "I applaud this latest federal NSF award and look forward to the future advances in science and computing it will facilitate."

"NCSA is excited to continue its tradition of innovation in advanced computing with the Delta system, which will bring new capabilities to the nation's advanced research computing community," said Bill Gropp, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "With Delta, we will help emerging research areas, such as computational archaeology and digital agriculture, take advantage of new computing methods and hardware while simultaneously making advanced computing systems more usable and accessible to a broad community of researchers."

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