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As a part of its mission to enable research and scholarship at UB, CCR provides a wide range of consulting services in areas that include parallel computing, software engineering, scientific and medical visualization, bioinformatics, data analytics, and cluster management. In addition, the software engineering group have extensive experience in custom software development, including GUI and web-based interfaces.

For many consultations, there is no charge for these services.  For more involved or longer term projects, often times faculty build support into the research proposal to external funding agencies.  For additional information on these services or how CCR can help facilitate your research, please fill out the .

CCR provides support for all aspects of data analytics including support for analysis of large datasets and applications of artificial intelligence (machine learning) to all areas of research.  CCR's academic and industry partner HPC environments provide clusters with GPU nodes and the on-premise research cloud provides researchers with a test environment for scaling to large cloud environments.  CCR staff provide support for UB projects that utilize the Empire AI systems and work with research groups to prepare them for scaling to this system in the future.
 

We understand research is one of your primary duties and submitting high quality proposals for funding opportunities is a necessity.  These are some ways we can support you in that endeavor: 

• Letters of commitment to show you have access to sufficient resources needed for your project.  For additional information and to request a letter of support, please .
• Expertise in areas such as: scientific software development, web software development and virtual environments by collaborating as co-investigators or senior personnel.
• Boilerplate text describing our computing and storage facilities and .
• Quotes for specialized services such as: dedicated computing resources, large amounts of storage, HPC consulting.  Please submit a ticket to   Quotes from vendors can take a long time.  Please give us ample time to procure these for you.
  
• Review of proposals for research computing infrastructure or research software development
• Opportunities for Outreach/Broader Impact activities with CCR’s high school summer educational programs.

How to get started:

Contact CCR support by filling out and include information on the program call to which you are responding, a brief description of your proposed activity, and how our resources and/or expertise might fit into your proposed project. We will follow up with an email or a phone call as appropriate. Please provide adequate notice prior to submission date; preferably 2 weeks advanced notice is appreciated.

CCR staff have developed extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining Linux-based clusters consisting of tens to thousands of processors. This includes all aspects of cluster technology, such as high-speed interconnects, advanced networking, storage area networks, parallel file systems, batch queuing software, and fault tolerant services. CCR's cluster management service provides faculty with a distinct advantage of owning their own hardware for their group to run on but not having to deal with the logistics and technical aspects of installing or maintaining it.  You are leveraging CCR's staff expertise as well as a data center infrastructure that's built for high performance computing.  Currently CCR maintains hardware and software for a wide variety of research areas, including Chemistry, Computational Biology, Genomics, Physics, and various Engineering disciplines.

What CCR provides:

• CCR staff will help you develop specifications for specialized services such as: dedicated computing resources, large amounts of storage, and HPC consulting.  We will work with our vendor contacts to procure quotes for your hardware requirements.  NOTE: Quotes from vendors can take a significant period of time, of which we can not control.  Please give us ample time to procure these for you.
• CCR staff physically install the equipment in our data center, install the operating system and all necessary software, and configure the servers to work within the batch scheduling system.  Your group members are given priority access to these nodes at all times.
• CCR staff are responsible for repairing broken hardware and consulting with the hardware vendor when problems occur.

More details about this service and policies can be found in .

To request a quote for compute nodes, please fill out