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Leading, High-Performance Computing and AI Cluster Powers Innovative Solutions

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High Performance Computing

CCR remains a leader in university HPC

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Supporting UB Researchers

Advancing our users' research & knowledge

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Propelling Research

Cutting edge research done at CCR every day!

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Engaging the Community

CCR's outreach extends to schools, businesses and the community

Research & Innovation

  • ACCESS Metrics
    10/10/22
    NSF ACCESS Metrics: ACCESS Monitoring and Measurement Service (MMS) is responsible for monitoring and measurement of the ACCESS Cyberinfrastructure (CI) facilities.
  • UB undergrad works on NSF national project
    11/26/24
    CCR has a history of working with undergraduate students on engaging summer internships
  • CHREST
    6/3/23
    CHREST leverages UB's faculty and students in engineering, CS, and math, with industry & government partners, to better describe turbulent reacting flows.
  • Roswell Park Research Computing Highlights
    7/21/21
    UB CCR provides high performance computing and storage resources to support researchers at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Chess and AI: The Role of Transparency
    7/13/21
    Dr. Kenneth Regan's algorithms utilize tens of thousands of chess game datasets, along with the high-performance computing resources from the Center for Computational Research, to help determine if a chess opponent is making moves like a human or more like a computer.
  • Computational Chemistry Cyber Training Workshop
    11/26/24
    The “Excited States and Nonadiabatic Dynamics CyberTraining Workshop" is hosted annually at UB
  • Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Kleinhans Music Hall
    7/8/21
    A collaboration with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra was pursued to assess the risk of infection and develop strategies to mitigate the spread of respiratory particles using computational fluid dynamics.
  • Simulations of indoor space with the SteriSpaceTM Air Sterilization System
    7/8/21
    The air sterilization technology SteriSpaceTM, developed by a local company You First Services, destroys airborne biological pathogens and can be a stand-alone unit for a room or integrated into a building air handling system and can be customized for different configurations.
  • National Football League - Professor Mark Karwan
    7/8/21
    Dr. Karwan uses CCR’s industry cluster to help solve one of the NFL’s more computationally challenging problems - how to schedule so many games in such a short timespan.
  • CheKiPEUQ Software Helps Identify the Right Choice
    8/13/21
    Dr. Eric Walker of UB's Institute for Computational and Data Sciences developed software for making the difficult decision of which experiments to run a little easier
  • Garwood Medical Devices
    7/8/21
    Garwood Medical Devices is based in downtown Buffalo and is developing “smart bandage” medical devices. The devices will contain integrated sensor and communications technologies to enable unprecedented outpatient treatment for implant infections and chronic wounds.
  • Combustion
    3/31/12
    Professor Paul DesJardin of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department and CCR user, employs computational fluid dynamics to develop a better understanding of the turbulent flow for improved predictions of fire intensity and growth.
  • Fostering Economic Development
    6/26/13
    Sentient Science uses CCR cluster to advance its ability to create computational simulations of mechanical devices
  • Magnetic Moments
    9/16/13
    Chemistry professor and CCR user, Jochen Autschbach, is a co-author of a paper that reports a major breakthrough regarding the properties of a catalyst that chemists have been seeking for decades.
  • REDFly
    10/23/14
    REDfly seeks to include all experimentally verified fly regulatory elements along with their DNA sequence, their associated genes, and the expression patterns they direct. Dr. Marc Halfon (Biochemistry) and CCR have built a valuable tool for the research community.
  • Geochemical Heterogeneity
    5/12/15
    Dr. Richelle Allen-Kin (Department of Geology) is working to systematically evaluate the relative impacts of soil and sorption heterogeneity on contaminant storage and removal in sedimentary aquifers.
  • HPC for Groundwater Remediation
    5/12/15
    High performance computing was used to design cost-effective systems to safeguard the nation’s groundwater supplies from contaminated sites. The search procedures and tools that come from this research can be tailored to a wide variety of geoscience challenges.
  • High School Workshop
    8/1/13
    CCR in collaboration with Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Hauptman-Woodward Institute, and others offer an intensive weeklong workshop for high school students every summer.
  • Bioinformatics - miRdSNP
    8/8/12
    Software and a website developed at CCR, miRdSNP, aim to enable researchers to further explore the effects of SNPs on micro-RNA binding in relation to human diseases by providing a database of manually curated disease-associated SNPs from the available literature
  • xTuition
    8/9/12
    CCR is collaborating with researchers at the Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI) to develop an expert crystallization knowledge system built upon the vast library of historical data from crystallization experiments.
  • Bioinformatics - Retinal Development
    8/17/12
    This project seeks to understand how retinal ganglion cells are generated and maintained. The knowledge obtained from this study will serve as guidance in future endeavors to develop preventive and therapeutic measures for diseases such as glaucoma & optic neuritis.

CCR Support

Welcome to CCR!  Our support staff is comprised of HPC specialists, computational scientists, system administrators, programmers, software developers, and database experts.  Staff are available to help users of all levels.  The CCR support pages offer a wide range of documentation, presentations, and examples to aid in the utilization of CCR resources to facilitate your research.  Our searchable knowledgebase provides users with answers to frequently asked questions, how-to articles on using the clusters & research cloud, and detailed step-by-step instructions for many of the tasks most users desire.  Contact us any time you need assistance!