What exactly is the National Center for Supercomputing Applications?
When the center opened to the research community in 1986, the researchers using the supercomputers were from the traditional disciplines of physics, chemistry, materials, and astrophysics. But researchers in other disciplines quickly realized they, too, could also transform their fields by using supercomputing. Today the growth areas include commercial and financial data mining and networked World Wide Web multimedia asset management. NCSA is also dedicated to improving the competitive position of American industry by selecting leading corporations in a variety of industry categories to partner with NCSA in a non- competitve Industrial Program. These Fortune 500 companies are at NCSA to learn about all aspects of cutting-edge hardware and software, virtual prototyping, visualization, networking, and data mining. Current partners include: Allstate Insurance Co., American Airlines, AT&T, Caterpillar Inc., Dow Chemical, Eastman Kodak Co., Eli Lilly & Co., FMC, J. P. Morgan, Motorola Inc.,
