The Center for
Computational Research
| Russ Miller, Director Tom Furlani, Assoc Dir | |
| 2 Compt’l Sci; 3 Sys Admins; 2 Clerical | |
| established 1999 |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| Manufacturing | |
| Medical Imaging | |
| Computational Science | |
| Simulation & Modeling | |
| Historical Reenactments | |
| Multimedia Presentations |
| 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 | ||