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Dr. Russ Miller, Director |
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Professor of Computer Science & Engineering,
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Senior Research Scientist, Hauptman-Woodward
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Ad-Hoc Task Force on High-Performance Computing |
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Formed January 1998 by Provost’s Office |
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Faculty from Science, Engineering, Medicine,
Arts |
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Staff from Central Computing and Local Support
Services |
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Final Report Submitted April 1998 |
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Significant need to provide support in |
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Computational Science |
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High-Performance Computing |
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Visualization |
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National priority (PITAC report) |
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Recommends formation of CCR |
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Provost establishes CCR in Summer 1998 |
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Federal IT R&D Investment is Inadequate |
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Federal IT R&D Should Focus on Long-Term |
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Research Priorities |
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Scalable Information Infrastructure |
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Software and Communications technology for
scaling infor. infrastr. |
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Expand NGI testbeds to foster development and
deployment of enabling technologies |
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High-End Computing |
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Innovative computing technologies and
architectures |
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Software for improving high-end computing |
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Acquisition of high-end computing to support
sci. and eng. research |
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Expand Fed. High End Computing and Computation
(HECC) program |
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Software |
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Socio-Economic and Workforce Impact |
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CCR
Established: January, 1999 |
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CCR
Facility Occupied: May, 1999 |
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Research Groups Supported:
75+ (25 depts) |
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Publications/Presentations:
100+ |
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Proposals Submitted:
50+ ($150M) |
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Proposals Funded to Date:
20+ ($28M) |
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Equipment/Software Donated:
12 ($6M) |
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News
Articles about CCR: 125+ |
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Foster High-Tech Research & Economic
Development |
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High-Performance Computing |
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High-End Visualization |
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Provide |
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Support Services |
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Collaborative Opportunities |
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Foster Partnerships |
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Computing & Visualization |
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Software & Consultation |
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Technology Transfer |
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Seminars, Workshops, Tutorials, and Courses |
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Support/Expand HPC at SUNY-Buffalo |
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70 Research Groups/25 Departments |
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Economic Development in WNY |
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Local Companies |
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Education, Outreach, Training |
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HS, College, Companies |
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National Partnerships |
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SGI, IBM, Sun, Nortel, Alias|Wavefront, Myricom |
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Financial Leverage |
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$300K NSF ® $11M equip, $28M Grants, $6M
Donations |
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SGI Origin2000 |
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128 processors (250 MHz) |
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32 GB RAM |
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400 GB Fibre Channel Disk Storage |
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IBM RS/6000 SP |
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78 Processors |
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26 GB Ram, 640 GB Disk Storage |
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Sun Microsystems Cluster |
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48 Sun Ultra 5 Workstations (333MHz) |
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32 Sunblades (750MHz) |
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Myrinet + 100BT Ethernet |
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SGI Intel Linux Cluster |
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150 Pentium III Processors (1 GHz) |
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75 GB RAM, 2.5 TB Disk Storage |
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Myrinet2000 + 100BT Ethernet |
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Urban Planning |
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Manufacturing |
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Molecular Modeling |
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Multimedia Presentations |
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Historical Reenactments |
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Semiconductor Manufacturing |
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New processes & chemicals to improve the
manufacturing of computer chips. |
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Environmentally Friendly Solvents |
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Study supercritical CO2 as a solvent
to reduce the need for toxic solvents. |
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Protein Folding |
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Computer simulations determine the 3D structure
of proteins. |
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Dental Implant Design |
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Simulation and modeling of a dental implant in a
jawbone to reduce failure rate. |
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Volcanology |
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Study of volcanoes for risk assessment as well
as modeling of lava flows and mudslides. |
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Groundwater Modeling |
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Predict contaminant flow in groundwater &
possible migration into streams and lakes. |
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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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SnB Software by UB/HWI |
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Top Algorithms of the Century |
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Critical to rational drug design |
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Important link in structural biology |
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Vancomycin - antibiotic of last resort |
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Design and Virtual Prototypes |
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Model Factories and Plants |
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Simulate Manufacturing |
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Study Human Factors |
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Visualize New Products |
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Industries: Auto, Aviation, Space, Components, Process,
Pharmaceutical, Movie |
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International Crossing (USA/Canada) |
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Existing Bridge: Old (75yrs) & Small (3
lanes) |
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Existing USA Plaza: Small & Poor Design |
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Proposed Options |
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Relocate USA Plaza |
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Build a 3 Lane Companion & Rehab Original |
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Build a 6 Lane Signature Span |
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CCR Provides Immersive 3D Viz |
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All Bridge & Plaza Options |
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High-School Summer Program |
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Graduate Certificate Program in Computational
Science |
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Courses in High-Performance Computing |
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Regional Relationships |
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Brockport |
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Geneseo |
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Training |
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IBM SP, SGI O2K, MPI, Viz |
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ACA99 Workshop |
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Open Houses (Internal and External) |
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Focuses on Scientific Problems |
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Impact (Simulation & Modeling) |
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Bioinformatics qIndustrial Design |
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CFD qPhotonics |
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Pharm. Drug Design qEnvironmental Science |
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Requires 15 Credits (5 Courses) |
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Requires a Two-Semester Course in HPC |
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Combines Computational Methods with Disciplinary
Work |
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Cooperative between CCR and |
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Mathematics |
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Chemical Engineering |
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Physics |
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Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering |
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Computer Science & Engineering |
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High Performance Computing I: Parallel
Architectures, MPI, OpenMP, BLAS, Linear Algebra Libraries. |
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High Performance Computing II: Applications –
Monte Carlo, MD, Finite Elements, Finite Differences, FFTs. |
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First Year: 25 Students |
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Cluster Computing Course |
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Computational Science Classes |
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Computational Science Research |
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Real-Time Simulation & Modeling |
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Infrastructure |
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Distributed Cluster Computing Environments |
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Collaboratories/Meeting Environments |
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Networking (?) – multiple OC12 lines |
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www.ccr.buffalo.edu |
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www.hwi.buffalo.edu/SnB |
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miller@{ccr,cse,hwi}.buffalo.edu |
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Notes