A year of cyberinfrastructure Illinois Campus Cluster What does it do? Provides high-‐performance computing and storage essential for research Who can use this? University of Illinois Faculty, Researchers, Staff and Students. Who to contact: Illinois Campus Cluster Help Desk Contact email: [email protected] Link: https://campuscluster.illinois.edu/ Cost: Individual, groups, and campus units can invest in compute and storage resources. Usage time purchase option available beginning fall 2015. Major Features: No need to worry about administrating your investment because the Illinois Campus Cluster is administered by experts from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Special notes: Three month free trial available prior to investing. CAMPUS CUSTOMERS • • • Mechanical Science and Engineering -‐ We are using computer modeling and simulation to design better materials for emerging technologies such as solar photovoltaics that convert sunlight to electricity. The campus cluster helps us to carry out the numerically intensive quantum mechanical models to understand how to improve these materials. Geography and GIS -‐ Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) laboratory is processing large spatial and temporal scale image processing projects for nations, U.S. states, and U.S. cities. Department of Physics -‐ Simulate and analyze data generated by the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. Edit Date: 03/19/15 Page 1 of 1