Computational Facilities

The university's Center for Computational Research (CCR) is one of the major academic supercomputing centers in the U.S. CCR supports computationally-intensive research by providing quality personnel and supercomputing resources.

CCR currently supports about 50 research groups spanning nearly 30 departments at UB, as well as more than 20 companies and institutions in the Buffalo-Niagara region.

The department has itself established a state-of-the-art computational facility through grants from the National Science Foundation. It consists of several high-end Silicon Graphics workstations and a four-processor, Origin-class Silicon Graphics mini-supercomputer. This modern distributed computing environment combines very fast number crunching with advanced scientific visualization capabilities, and is available for exclusively for research in the department. The facility is used for computationally intensive research in the fields of advanced materials processing, kinetics, molecular simulation, reaction engineering, and transport phenomena.

A large number of networked workstations and PCs are also available for student use in research laboratories and public sites maintained by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

The University is an Internet2 member and a participant in NSF's very high-speed backbone network system (vBNS).