National Center for Supercomputing Applications
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ) was in 1986 at the American University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign as one of the original five centers of the National Science Foundation 's Supercomputer Centers Program established. Founding director was Larry Smarr .
The NCSA became known worldwide in 1993 through the first graphical web browser NCSA Mosaic and the web server NCSA HTTPd , the forerunner of the Apache HTTP server, which is now widely used .
The Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), which NASA uses in its Earth Observing System (EOS), was also developed by the NCSA . The first NCSA Mosaic versions were also able to display images and additional information saved in HDF files.
At the end of March 2013, the supercomputer " Blue Waters " was put into operation. It fills a hall of 2000 square meters and contains 22,640 computing nodes, each with 32 individual processors.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Calculating the secrets of life , Spectrum of Science 11/2014, p. 86
