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The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) announced that Exxon Mobil, a global leader in the energy and petrochemical industry, has signed on as the center's newest Private Sector Partner. NCSA's Private Sector Partner Program puts the center's expertise and technological innovation to work on the real-world challenges faced by industry, while enabling companies to reap the benefits of early access to breakthroughs. In addition to Exxon Mobil, NCSA's other current partners include Allstate, Boeing Phantom Works, Caterpillar, IBM, and Motorola Labs. "We're looking forward to building a strong, productive relationship with Exxon Mobil," said incoming NCSA director Thom Dunning. "This is another good example of how the private sector and the public sector, through a National Science Foundation-funded research center, can work together." NCSA™ (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) is a national high-performance computing center that develops and deploys cutting-edge computing, networking and information technologies. Located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA is funded by the National Science Foundation. Additional support comes from the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, private sector partners and other federal agencies. For more information, see http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/.