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Wandering the halls of the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), one can just imagine the prideful voice of HAL 9000 computer from "2001: A Space Odyssey" boasting that it became operational at the HAL Plant, located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Coordinated Science Laboratory, which is just 500 ft. away. The massive computing power of the HAL 9000's artificial intelligence remains steeped in the lore of science fiction, but the echoes of its voice are a reminder of the enormous computing power available at the NCSA. NCSA, which is supported by the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois and the National Science Foundation (NSF), is willing to share the power of its supercomputing resources with external researchers, private manufacturers and engineering companies in an effort to democratize access to supercomputing resources and fuel collaboration. That willingness to share has spawned some impressive collaborative efforts that have helped private companies ranging from the Fortune 500 to small and midsized businesses overcome significant engineering challenges.