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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

TeraGrid Connections

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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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