CCR Facility Description for PI's (Microsoft Word document)
Slide show of faculty based research supported by CCR (pdf 13mb)
CCR Computational Resources Schematic
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Overview
The Center for Computational Research, a leading academic supercomputing facility, maintains a high-performance computing environment, high-end visualization laboratories, and support staff with expertise in scientific computing, software engineering, parallel computing, grid computing, visualization, advanced database design, and networking. The Center's extensive computing facilities include a 2112 processor Dell P4 (64-bit) Linux cluster, and a 64 processor shared memory SGI Altix. The Center also maintains a 25 Tbyte EMC SAN. The computer visualization laboratory features a tiled display wall, a VisDuo passive stereo system, and an Access Grid Node. Based on aggregate compute capacity, CCR is one of the most powerful university based supercomputing sites in the U.S., with more than 13 Tflops of peak performance.
In the 21st century, leading academic institutions will embrace our digital data-driven society and empower students to compete in this knowledge-based economy. In order to support research, scholarship, education, and community outreach, institutions must be prepared to deliver high-end cyberinfrastructure that will enable the efficient collection, management, organization, analysis, and visualization of data. The Center for Computational Research (CCR) was established in 1998 with just this in mind.
CCR's mission is to:
- enable research and scholarship at UB by providing faculty with access to high-performance computing and visualization resources,
- provide education, outreach, and training in Western New York, and
- effect technology transfer to local industry in areas that require high-end computing, storage, networking, and visualization.
In addition to providing access to state-of-the-art computational and visualization resources, CCR's staff, who are comprised of computational scientists, software engineers, and database administrators, provide a wide range of services to facilitate faculty led research including custom software and GUI interface development, advanced database design, scientific programming support, scientific visualization support, and bioinformatics support.
In addition, CCR offers courses in high-performance computing and molecular modeling, training and workshops in specific aspects of high-end computing, a graduate certificate in computational science, and summer workshops for high-school students.
CCR also supports the newly established New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, which is comprised of UB, the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, and the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute.
