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Russ Miller |
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Director, Center for Computational Research |
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Supercomputing |
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9 Teraflops Aggregate Compute Capacity |
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www.gapcon.com: |
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6th Worldwide (JAMSTEC, LLNL, NSA,
IBM, LANL) |
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#1 Academia |
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High-End Visualization |
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Scientific Visualization |
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Urban Planning |
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Education/Outreach/Training |
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H.S. Summer Program |
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Hosts Meetings/Provides Tours |
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Work with Local Industry & Local Colleges |
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Wide-Variety of Degree Programs |
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Support/Expand HPC at UB |
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90 Research Groups in 25 Depts |
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Leverage $300K NSF Grant ̃ |
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$46M Vendor Donations |
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$30M Equipment |
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$42M Grants (Peer-Reviewed) |
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Funding |
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NSF, NIH, NIMA, EPA, Keck, Sloan |
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NYS, SUNY, UB |
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IBM, SGI, Sun, DELL, HP (Compaq), Nortel, Myricom |
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Dell Linux Cluster |
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5.8TF Peak; 4036 Processors (PIII 1.2GHz + P4
2.4GHz) |
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2TB RAM; 160TB Disk |
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16TB RAID |
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Dell Linux Cluster |
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2.9TF Peak; 304 Processors (P4 2.4GHz) |
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Myrinet2000 |
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600GB RAM; 40TB Disk |
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HP/Compaq SAN (Oct, 2002) |
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25TB Disk |
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250TB Tape |
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HP/Compaq 1TF EV7 Alpha System (3/03) |
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Fakespace ImmersaDesk |
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SGI 3300W |
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Portable Systems |
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Access Grid Node |
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Tiled Display Wall |
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Onyx2 / Onyx300 |
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Groundwater Flow Modeling |
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Predict contaminant flow in groundwater &
possible migration into streams and lakes. |
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Geophysical Mass Flows |
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Study of geophysical mass flows for risk
assessment of lava flows and mudslides. |
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Astrophysics |
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Determine whether interacting astrophysical jets
in dense star environments can generate turbulence in surrounding medium |
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Bioinformatics |
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Protein Folding (Computer simulations determine
the 3D structure of proteins.) |
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Pharmacology |
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Computational Chemistry |
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Algorithm Development & Simulations |
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Fluid Dynamics |
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Modeling turbulent flows and combustion to
improve design of chemical reactors, turbine engines, and airplanes. |
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Institute of Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics
(www.photonics.buffalo.edu) |
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MEMS, Data Storage, Chem/Bio Sensors,
Nanotechnology, Spintronics |
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National Center for Geographic Information
Analysis (www.geog.buffalo.edu/ncgia) |
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UB, UC Santa Barbara, Univ. of Maine |
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Center for Multisource Information Fusion
(www.infofusion.buffalo.edu) |
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Center for Excellence in Document Analysis and
Recognition (www.cedar.buffalo.edu) |
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Database and Multimedia Laboratory (www.cse.buffalo.edu/DBGROUP/index.html) |
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Content based image retrieval |
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Advanced data mining algorithm development |
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Center
of Excellence in Bioinformatics (www.bioinformatics.buffalo.edu) |
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NSA
Center of Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and
Education (cyberterrorism) |
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Laboratory for Advanced Network Design
(www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/qiao/) |
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Master’s Program in Bioinformatics (Sloan) |
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Advanced Degrees under development |
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Pharmacometrics, Biophotonics, Computational
Chemistry, Molecular Biology |
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School of Informatics (AT&T curr. dev.) |
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UB-HWI Dept. of Structural Biology |
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Complementary Degrees |
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Canisius College and Niagara University |
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Dynamics of Hemoglobin (Example) |
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50 Days of Processing on 16 Processors (800 CPU
Days) |
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Key |
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White – Heme Groups |
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Red – Phe97 |
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Red – Oxygen (in the subunit at bottom) |
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Green – His 69 and 101 |
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Blue – Tyr 72 |
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Cyan (Ball) – Water Molecules |
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Yellow – Helix E/F |
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Interest |
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Flip of the Phe97 ring at top |
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Water movement around Phe97 |
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Heme-heme relative movement |
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miller@buffalo.edu |
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www.ccr.buffalo.edu |
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