Univ. of Buffalo’s Paul DesJardin Elected Fellow of ASME

Paul DesJardin of the University of Buffalo has been elected fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in recognition of his exceptional achievements and contributions to the engineering profession. ASME fellows are conferred annually and fellow is the highest grade of membership. DesJardin, professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School […]

Panasas Picked for SUNY Supercomputing Center

The University at Buffalo  has chosen Panasas ActiveStor Ultra  HPC data storage for the university’s Center for Computational Research (CCR), a supercomputing center serving the 64 campuses of the State Universities of New York (SUNY) network and affiliated partners, including industry. In its announced, the university (UB) said it moved to Panasas because it was challenged by higher […]

Video: Supercomputing at the University of Buffalo

In this WGRZ video, researchers describe supercomputing at the Center for Computational Research at the University of Buffalo. “The Center’s extensive computing facilities, which are housed in a state-of-the-art 4000 sq ft machine room, include a generally accessible (to all UB researchers) Linux cluster with more than 8000 processor cores and QDR Infiniband, a subset (32) of which contain (64) NVidia Tesla M2050 “Fermi” graphics processing units (GPUs).”