cyberinfrastructure at clemson university
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School of Computing
Cyberinfrastructure at Clemson
Dr. D. E. (Steve) StevensonInstitute for Modeling and SimulationSchool of Computing (SoC), Clemson
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School of Computing Top Four CI Missions at
Clemson’s SoC Develop human-centered CI driven by
research and education opportunities. Provide the CI communities tools and
services. Promote broadening participation and
strengthening the Nation’s workforce. Provide a sustainable CI that is essential for
conducting science, engineering, and industrial research and education.
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School of Computing
Open Science Grid
Palmetto Cluster
Clemson has the World’s 60th fastest supercomputer and the fastest outside Government labs.
Palmetto Cluster available for indust-rial applications.
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School of Computing
School of Computing
The School of Computing will be a national leader in the development of divisions that integrate computation with the arts, engineering, humanities, and natural sciences.
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School of Computing
Current Strengths
High Performance Computing and Cyberinfrastructure
Graphics Virtual Environments Theory and Algorithms Software Engineering
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School of Computing Degree Programs
Undergraduate
B.S in Computer Science B.A in Computer Science B.S. in Computer
Information Systems
Graduate
M.S. in Computer Science M.F.A. in Digital
Production Arts Ph.D. in Computer
Science
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School of Computing Existing Units
Computer Science
Study and research in traditional computer science areas of TheorySystemsAlgorithmsSoftware EngineeringCyberinfrastructure
Visual Computing
Study and research in
Computer graphics
Visualization
Computer vision and image processing
Electronic arts such as game design, special
effects, and animation.
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School of Computing Developing Unit
Human Center Computing (HCC)
HCC is an emerging field focused on understanding how to make computational technologies more useable and how computational technologies affect society. Human—Computer Interaction Broadening Participation Computing Education Societal Impact of Technology Human Factors User Interface Design
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School of Computing
NVIDIA & Supercomputing
NVIDIA Corporation has donated a Tesla S1070 supercomputer to the School of Computing for research in modeling photon transport and high-speed rendering.
The S1070 has 960 compute cores with a peak performance of 4 Teraflops in a desktop. This donation continues a strong partnership between NVIDIA and the School of Computing through equipment donations and graduate student support.
Jay Steele (Ph. D. candidate) has received three of the prestigious NVIDIA Fellowship awards, of which only 10 are awarded, world-wide, each year.
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School of Computing
iTiger
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School of Computing
CI in Education
CI involves people in interdisciplinary virtual organizations.
99.9% need not be programmers. Everyone must learn to think more
creatively and critically. “From K to Gray” education initiatives
supported by NSF and the Supercomputing Education committee.
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School of Computing
Mission 1
Develop a human-centered CI that is driven by science research and education opportunities School of Computing has an HCC division. Several institutes at Clemson research the
“human-computer interface.”
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School of Computing
Mission II
Provide the science communities CI tools and services: High performance computing; data, data analysis and visualization; networked resources and virtual
organizations; and learning and workforce development;
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School of Computing
Mission 3
Promote a CI that serves as an agent for broadening participation and strengthening the Nation’s workforce in all areas of science;
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School of Computing
Mission 4
Provide a sustainable CI that is secure, efficient, reliable, accessible,
usable, and interoperable, and that evolves as an essential national
infrastructure for conducting science and engineering research and education.
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