NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsThe National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is a high-performance computing and communications facility and research center designed to serve the U.S. computational science and engineering community. The NCSA Software Development Group developed NCSA Mosaic, the browser that ushered in widespread use of the Web.
NCSA was established in February 1985 with a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. The state of Illinois, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), corporate partners, and other federal agencies supply additional funding.