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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]

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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 Presentation

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Page 1: UNB ACRL: Current Infrastructure,  Programs, and Plans

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]

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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

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Immediate Future

SymphonyIBM SP3

(16 processors)

ME Cluster???

(64 processors)

TAPoR Cluster

???(~32 processors)

ACRL N/W

1 Gbps to ITS / CA*net 3

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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

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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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AC3 Network