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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 Bhavsar@unb.ca. ACRL- Current Status. Established in 2000
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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 Bhavsar@unb.ca
ACRL- Current Status Established in 2000 Hardware:Symphony IBM SP3 (16 processors) Personnel:Virendra Bhavsar, Director Chris MacPhee, TASP Sean 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 TAPoR Cluster ??? (~32 processors) ME Cluster ??? (64 processors) Symphony IBM SP3 (16 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 • …