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The University of Illinois' National Center For Supercomputer Applications (NCSA), established in 1986 and based in Urbana, Illinois, is one the first five research and development organizations established with the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program. The center designs and deploys computing, data, and networking systems. It works with research communities in developing collaborative, online work environments. The organization also develops software and methodologies that optimize the security of national computer systems. Software and services also are used by law enforcement agencies in responding to online attacks. NCSA oversees Music-to-Knowledge (M2K), the Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research (SEASR), Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wavelength Astronomy (CARMA), Dark Energy Survey, INDICATOR, GridChem, TeraGrid, MAEviz, and other arts and humanities, astronomy, bioscience, chemistry, nanoscience, cyberinfrastructure and security, and environmental science and engineering projects. The organization is known for the world's first graphical interface web browser, NCSA Mosaic (TM), released in 1993. The center also is known for the NCSA Telnet network software and for the FLAIM and MyProxy security, Defuddle and Trebuchet information management, ELF and OGRE workflow management, DISCUS and Virtual Director (TM) visualization and data analysis, and Account Management Information Exchange System (AMIE) programs. It is developing the Blue Waters petascale computing system. NCSA provides colleges with computer technology infrastructure and education services. It produces presentations on technologies and research, which are distributed to the
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