Proper noun
NCSA
(US, computing) Initialism of National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
A work group chaired by Ken Coar started in November 1997 to get the NCSA definition of CGI more formally defined. Source: Internet
Cox and NCSA worked with the American Museum of Natural History to produce high-resolution visualizations for the Hayden Planetarium 's 2000 Millennium show, "Passport to the Universe", and for "The Search for Life: Are We Alone?" Source: Internet
In 2007, NCSA was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to build " Blue Waters ", citation a supercomputer capable of performing quadrillions of calculations per second, a level of performance known as petascale. Source: Internet
NCSA quickly came to the attention of the worldwide scientific community with the release of NCSA Telnet in 1986. Source: Internet
In the second generation, Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina developed NCSA Mosaic at the University of Illinois. Source: Internet
In the third generation, Andreessen and Bina left NCSA to found Netscape.. Source: Internet