National Center for Supercomputing Applications

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ) was founded in 1986 at the American University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign as one of the original five centers of the National Science Foundation 's Supercomputer Centers Program.

The NCSA was founded in 1993 known worldwide by the first graphical Web browser, NCSA Mosaic and the Web server NCSA HTTPd, forerunner of today's widely used Apache HTTP Server.

Through the NCSA and the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF ) has been developed which NASA used in its Earth Observing System (EOS). The first NCSA Mosaic versions were present stored images and additional information also capable in HDF files.