NCSA Mosaic, or simply Mosaic, is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web.

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ) is an American state-federal partnership to develop and deploy national-scale cyberinfrastructure that advances science and engineering.

A list of NCSA hardware is available at NCSA Capabilities.

NCSA is one of the five original centers in the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program.

NCSA is now headquartered within its own building directly north of the Siebel Center for Computer Science, on the site of a former baseball field, Illini Field.

The Apache HTTP Server originally evolved as a number of patches that Brian Behlendorf collated to improve NCSA HTTPd, hence a name that implies that it is a collection of patches (" a patchy server ").

SDSC is one of the four original sites involved in the TeraGrid project along with National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ), Argonne National Laboratory, and Center for Advanced Computing Research ( CACR ).

Donna J. Cox is an American artist and scientist, Professor of Art + Design ; Director, Advanced Scientific Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ( UIUC ); Director, Visualization and Experimental Technologies at National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ); and Director, edream ( Illinois Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute ).

In the undergraduate community the student body is represented by the New College Student Association ( NCSA ), which seeks to facilitate and develop community involvement, both within the college and externally.

The ' Black Proposal ' was a short, ten-page proposal for the creation of a supercomputing center which eventually led to funding from the National Science Foundation ( NSF ) to create supercomputing centers, including the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ) at the University of Illinois.

In 1993 Clark met Marc Andreessen who had led the development of Mosaic, the first widely distributed and easy-to-use software for browsing the World Wide Web, while employed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ).

Brian Behlendorf, one of the original developers of the Apache HTTP Server, explains that he started to exchange patches for the NCSA web server daemon with other developers, which led to the release of " a patchy " webserver, dubbed Apache.

" Dublin " refers to Dublin, Ohio, where the work originated during the 1995 invitational OCLC / NCSA Metadata Workshop, hosted in by Online Computer Library Center ( OCLC ), a library consortium based there, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ).

Plaque commemorating the creation of Mosaic web browser by Eric Bina and Marc Andreessen, new NCSA building, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

After NCSA stopped work on Mosaic, development of the NCSA Mosaic for the X Window System source code was continued by several independent groups.

NCSA Mosaic was written by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, who went on to develop the Netscape Web browser.

Other notable contributions by NCSA were the Black Hole simulations supporting the development of LIGO in 1992, the tracking of the Hale-Bopp Comet in 1997, and the creation of a PlayStation 2 Cluster in 2003.

NCSA HTTPd was a web server originally developed at the NCSA by Robert McCool and others.

Plaque commemorating the creation of Mosaic ( web browser ) | Mosaic web browser by Bina and Andreessen, new NCSA building, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

* Mosaic ( web browser ), the first popular web browser, produced by the NCSA

The " Alliance Chautauqua 99 ", a series of two-day conferences on computational science organised by the NCSA, was the first large-scale Access Grid event.

Dr. Funs appearance on the World Wide Web was noted by the NCSA, creator of the Mosaic web browser, as " a major breakthrough for the Web " in 1993.

AMosaic was based on NCSA's Mosaic, but was not distributed by the University of Illinois or NCSA.

WWA was one of the first ISPs in the Chicago area to capitalize on virtual web hosting, by custom-coding virtual hosting into the NCSA httpd webserver before it was a core part of the product.

Plaque commemorating the creation of Mosaic ( web browser ) | Mosaic web browser by Bina and Andreessen, new NCSA building, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Its development was made possible by the support of Cluster Resources, Inc. ( now Adaptive Computing ) and the contributions of many individuals and sites including the U. S. Department of Energy, PNNL, the Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah ( CHPC ), Ohio Supercomputer Center ( OSC ), University of Southern California ( USC ), SDSC, MHPCC, BYU, NCSA, and many others.

NCSA computational and data environment implements a multi-architecture hardware strategy, deploying both clusters and shared memory systems to support high-end users and communities on the architectures best-suited to their requirements.

Realizing close to the beginning of rehearsals that a performance score was not available, NCSA enlisted the help of musicologist Philip Gossett, who was able to put them in touch with Sbragia, and his version, which was based on the original 1836 performances in Venice, became the work's critical edition.

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?

He also worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ) at the University of Illinois, where he became familiar with Tim Berners-Lee's open standards for the World Wide Web.

Image: Cray-1-UIUC_CAC. jpg | Cray-XMP at Center for Advanced Computation, University of Illinois NCSA

Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign beginning in late 1992.

NCSA operates as a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, although it provides high-performance computing resources to researchers across the country.

Nearly 1, 360 scientists, engineers and students used the computing and data systems at NCSA to support research in more than 830 projects.

The National Science Foundation announced funding for the supercomputer centers in 1985 ; the first supercomputer at NCSA came online in January 1986.

A number of other tools followed, and like NCSA Telnet, all were made available to everyone at no cost.

Donna Cox, leader of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at NCSA and a professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her team have thrilled millions of people with visualizations for the Oscar-nominated IMAX film " Cosmic Voyage ," the PBS NOVA episodes " Hunt for the Supertwister " and " Runaway Universe ," as well as Discovery Channel documentaries and pieces for CNN and NBC Nightly News.

; 1993: Students and staff working at the NSF-supported National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, develop Mosaic, the first freely available browser to allow World Wide Web pages that include both graphics and text.

Funding from the bill was used in the development of the 1993 web browser Mosaic, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ).

The University of Illinois / NCSA Open Source License combines text from both the MIT and BSD licenses ; the license grant and disclaimer are taken from the MIT License.

Marc Andreessen, the leader of the team that developed Mosaic, left NCSA and, with James H. Clark, one of the founders of Silicon Graphics, Inc. ( SGI ), and four other former students and staff of the University of Illinois, started Mosaic Communications Corporation.

Support for NCSA comes from the National Science Foundation, the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, business and industry partners, and other federal agencies.

SCO was the first commercial Unix System supplier to license the powerful NCSA Mosaic hypertext, NCSA HTTPd and the first to ship these technologies from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana bundled with an OS for commercial use.

The company, founded in 1990, was an offshoot of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and created to commercialize and support technologies from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ).

From 1991-1994, this program was expanded to include summer programs at other supercomputing centers ( NCSA and University of Huntsville, Alabama in 1991 ; Reed College and the Oregon Graduate Institute, and Sandia National Laboratories in 1992 ).

In 1993, Bina along with Marc Andreessen authored the first version of Mosaic while working as a programmer at National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The TeraGrid project was launched in August 2001 with $ 53 million in funding to four sites: the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the San Diego Supercomputer Center ( SDSC ) at the University of California, San Diego, University of Chicago Argonne National Laboratory, and Center for Advanced Computing Research ( CACR ) at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.