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
• Bhavsar_at_unb.ca

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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

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Immediate Future
TAPoR Cluster ??? (32 processors)
Symphony IBM SP3 (16 processors)
ME Cluster ??? (64 processors)

ACRL N/W
1 Gbps to ITS / CAnet 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