02.05.15 - Today the Institute announced a Strategic Technology Partnership with the National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois - Urbana. This alliance provides regional clients of the Institute's high-performance computing systems and services with access to NCSA's iForge and Blue Waters supercomputers when their modeling and simulation jobs exceed the Institute's capacity. Further, the alliance will support cooperation on federal research grants and on expanding the region's technical workforce.