Private Sector Program

Through NCSA's Private Sector Program (PSP), business and industry can benefit from the center's high-tech innovations and problem-solving expertise in high-performance computing, data management and analysis, visualization, cybersecurity, and advanced IT.

Some of the world's leading companies have leveraged NCSA tools and technologies to gain competitive advantage. Current partners include: ACNielsen, ArrayComm, Boeing, Caterpillar, John Deere, Dell, Digital Ribbon, Eclipse Energy, ExxonMobil, IBM, InnerLink, JPMorgan, Microsoft, Motorola, Research Triangle Institute, Rolls-Royce, Simulia/Abaqus, and State Farm.

Our partners say that NCSA's unique capabilities merge theoretical and applied research to solve real-world problems. Intellectual capital is then produced through continuous, productive relationships between industry and the University of Illinois. Ultimately, NCSA helps solve some of industry's formerly intractable business problems by using its core competencies in:

• code optimization and heuristic algorithms aimed at large-scale computation
• virtual prototyping, computational simulation, and advanced execution modeling
• application development for rapidly scaling software
• visualization modeling and image pattern recognition
• world-class cybersecurity tools and techniques
• data mining, data analytics, data provenance, and knowledge management.

Companies can engage with NCSA through:

• Three-year memberships with annual fees.
• Deep discussions of critical domain-specific issues.
• Business-to-business collaboration.
• Directed research agreements with identifiable deliverables.
• Resource-use agreements for high-performance computation.
• Co-location of personnel.