National Center for Supercomputing Applications
National Center for Supercomputing Applications clippings file, 1978-2000.
This collection includes newspaper and magazine articles related to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the University of Illinois, and Larry Smarr concerning supercomputers, supercomputer centers, grants, budgets, the National Science Foundation, the "Star Wars" boycott, the Strategic Defense Initiative, the Beckman Institute, the Soviet Union, access to technology, the Challenger explosion, Cray Research, Inc., and partnerships with technology companies, including IBM, Apple Computers, AT&T, Kodak, Dow, and Apollo Computer, Inc. NCSA Clippings File also includes a reference file of articles relating to supercomputing, physics, astronomy, environmental science, medical research, business economics, and the technology industry. Major figures mentioned in articles include Marc Andreessen, Steve S. Chen, Jim Clark, Thomas E. Everhart, Stanley O. Ikenberry, David J. Kuck, Larry Smarr, and Casper Weinberger.
Created in February 1985 to provide supercomputers to address problems such as predicting tornadoes and wind sheers, analyzing urban traffic patterns and studying the fundamental interactions of atomic particles.
Smarr, Larry L.
Weinberger, Caspar W.
AT & T
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Challenger (Spacecraft)
Dow Chemical Company
Eastman Kodak Company
International Business Machines Corporation
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Environmental sciences.
Medical research.
Strategic Defense Initiative
Supercomputers
AIP-ICOS
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University Archives. 1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA