The National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) was established in 1998 to serve as a resource for research, standards development, and education for high performance and distributed data mining and predictive modeling.

The Center sponsors:

• research projects
• standards
• testbeds
• education and technology transition

The Center focuses on three research areas:

• Scaling algorithms, applications and systems to massive data sets.
• Developing algorithms, applications, and systems for mining distributed data.
• Establishing standard languages, protocols, and services for data mining and predictive modeling.

The NCDM is a co-founding member of the Data Mining Group (DMG), which develops the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) and related standards.

The NCDM also operates an international data mining network called the Teraflow Testbed. The Teraflow Testbed employs 1 Gpbs and 10 Gbps networks connecting computer clusters in Chicago, Kingston, Amsterdam, Geneva and Tokyo.

The NCDM is supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the US Army, the Chicago Bioinformatics Consortium, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as by other funding agencies and its industrial partners.