unb acrl: current infrastructure, programs, and plans
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UNB ACRL: Current Infrastructure, Programs, and Plans. Virendra Bhavsar Professor and Director, Advanced Computational Research Laboratory (ACRL) Faculty of Computer Science University of New Brunswick Fredericton, NB [email protected]. ACRL- Current Status. Established in 2000 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
UNB ACRL: Current Infrastructure, Programs, and Plans
Virendra Bhavsar
Professor and Director, Advanced Computational Research Laboratory (ACRL)Faculty of Computer ScienceUniversity of New Brunswick
Fredericton, [email protected]
ACRL- Current StatusEstablished in 2000
Hardware: SymphonyIBM SP3 (16 processors)
Personnel: Virendra Bhavsar, DirectorChris MacPhee, TASPSean Seeley, System Support
Major Users: Chemistry, Computer Science, e-Business,
Forestry and Environmental Science,Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics
External Users: Chemistry, Mount Allison University
Computer Science, Universite de Moncton
Immediate Future
SymphonyIBM SP3
(16 processors)
ME Cluster???
(64 processors)
TAPoR Cluster
???(~32 processors)
ACRL N/W
1 Gbps to ITS / CA*net 3
CFI NOI
Advanced Computational Research Centre (ACRC)
Possible Partners/Supporters:
Mount Allison University, National Research Council, Fredericton
New Brunswick Community Colleges & Companies, Universite de Moncton
Configuration: 512 processors / 730 GB disk space
24 visualization workstations
Budget: $3,000,000
ACRC Themes
- e-Business, Web Services, Intelligent Systems
- Forestry and Forest Management, Fire propagation
- Computational Physics and Chemistry
- Computational and Data Grids
- Computational Fluid Dynamics and Threat Material Detection
- Plastics Manufacturing processes
- Computational Finance
- Bioinformatics
- …
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