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Outline
The Center for
Computational Research
Russ Miller, Director  Tom Furlani, Assoc Dir
2 Compt’l Sci; 3 Sys Admins; 2 Clerical
established 1999
Overview
Leading U.S. Academic Supercomputing Center
High-Performance Computing
High-End Visualization
Support ~80 Groups in ~25 Depts
Education/Outreach/Training
H.S. Summer Program
Work with Local Industry & Local Colleges
Hosts Meetings/Provides Tours
M.S. Certificate Program in Computational Science
Funding
Initial $300K Provided by NSF (CS/Chem)
Significant Leveraging
UB Investment: ~$2M (renovation, invest, personnel)
Vendor Donations to CCR: ~$6M
SGI, IBM, Sun, Q-Chem, Myricom, Alias|Wavefront, Nortel, Dell, Performance Technologies, Veridian, Platform Computing
CCR Projects: ~$2.7M
Federal/Foundation Funding: ~$13M
NSF, NIH, EPA, NIMA
Sloan, Keck, Woodrow Wilson
Industry: M&T, BNMC, Tops, FIDS, Praxair, Believe
NYS Funding: $15.3 NYSTAR; $4M+ CCR; $2.7 NYSCEDII
Partners
IBM, SGI, Sun, Myricom
Q-Chem, Praxair, Sarnoff, Occidental, M&T, Tops Markets, Performance Technologies, Believe, Kodak, Xerox,Veridian, Children’s Hospital, First Interstate Data Systems, artN, Buffalo Niagara Medical Consortium
Peace Bridge Authority, Parsons Engineering, Bergmann Associates, eMedia Inc., IBC Digital, Niagara College
CCR Computing (0.4TFlops)
SGI Origin2000
128 Processors (250 MHz)
32 GB RAM
400 GB Fibre Channel Disk Storage
IBM RS/6000 SP
78 Processors
26 GB Ram, 640 GB Disk Storage
Sun Microsystems Cluster
48 Sun Ultra 5 Workstations (333MHz)
32 Sunblades (750MHz)
Myrinet + 100BT Ethernet
SGI Intel Linux Cluster
150 Pentium III Processors (1 GHz)
75 GB RAM, 2.5 TB Disk Storage
Myrinet2000 + 100BT Ethernet
CCR Visualization
Manufacturing
Medical Imaging
Computational Science
Simulation & Modeling
Historical Reenactments
Multimedia Presentations
Future Acquisitions
Hardware
Cluster Computing: 2-6TFlops
ACCESS Grid
Commodity Viz Clusters
Portable Viz Systems
Additional Viz Workbench
Commodity Projection Systems
Software
Bioinformatics
Modeling and Simulation Packages
Database & Data Mining
Storage Management