Research & Innovation

The primary mission of the Center for Computational Research is to enable research and scholarship at UB by providing faculty, staff, and students with access to high-performance computing and visualization resources, including staff with expertise in computational science, parallel computing, software development, advanced database engineering, graphical user interfaces, portal design, bioinformatics, advanced data analytics and data driven science.

Highlights of Research Facilitated by CCR Resources:

This section highlights just a few of the many research projects currently utilizing our resources. We love hearing about the research being done on our systems! Please fill out this form to be featured on our website

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

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