National Center for Supercomputing Applications

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is one of the five original centers in the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program and a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Work began in January 1986.

Related Topics:
National Science Foundation - Supercomputer Centers Program - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 1986

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The NCSA is currently headquartered in the Beckman Institute and also occupies several additional buildings around the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. Construction is currently underway to expand the NCSA and move its headquarters to a new facility adjacent to the Siebel Center for Computer Science. Construction is expected to be complete in mid- to late 2005.

Related Topics:
The Beckman Institute - Siebel Center for Computer Science

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The Mosaic Web browser, the first graphical Web browser, which played an important part in expanding the growth of the World Wide Web and the Internet was written by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at the NCSA. Mosaic provided the foundation for the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser.

Related Topics:
Mosaic - Web browser - World Wide Web - Internet - Marc Andreessen - Eric Bina

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Other well-known past NCSA projects:

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• NCSA Telnet
• NCSA HTTPd
 
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