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School of Computing Cyberinfrastructure at Clemson Dr. D. E. (Steve) Stevenson Institute for Modeling and Simulation School of Computing (So. C), Clemson 13 January 2009 Enterprise Kickoff

School of Computing Top Four CI Missions at Clemson’s So. C n n 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. 13 January 2009 Enterprise Kickoff

School of Computing Open Science Grid Palmetto Cluster Clemson has the World’s 60 th fastest supercomputer and the fastest outside Government labs. Palmetto Cluster available for industrial applications. 13 January 2009 Enterprise Kickoff

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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. 13 January 2009 Enterprise Kickoff

School of Computing Current Strengths n n n High Performance Computing and Cyberinfrastructure Graphics Virtual Environments Theory and Algorithms Software Engineering 13 January 2009 Enterprise Kickoff

School of Computing Degree Programs Undergraduate n n n B. S in Computer Science B. A in Computer Science B. S. in Computer Information Systems 13 January 2009 Graduate n n n M. S. in Computer Science M. F. A. in Digital Production Arts Ph. D. in Computer Science Enterprise Kickoff

School of Computing Existing Units Computer Science n Study and research in traditional computer science areas of Theory Systems Algorithms Software Engineering Cyberinfrastructure 13 January 2009 Visual Computing n Study and research in Computer graphics Visualization Computer vision and image processing Electronic arts such as game design, special effects, and animation. Enterprise Kickoff

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. n n n Human—Computer Interaction Broadening Participation Computing Education Societal Impact of Technology Human Factors User Interface Design 13 January 2009 Enterprise Kickoff

School of Computing NVIDIA & Supercomputing n n n NVIDIA Corporation has donated a Tesla S 1070 supercomputer to the School of Computing for research in modeling photon transport and high-speed rendering. The S 1070 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. 13 January 2009 Enterprise Kickoff

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School of Computing CI in Education n n 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. 13 January 2009 Enterprise Kickoff

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School of Computing Mission 1 n Develop a human-centered CI that is driven by science research and education opportunities n n School of Computing has an HCC division. Several institutes at Clemson research the “human-computer interface. ” 13 January 2009 Enterprise Kickoff

School of Computing Mission II n Provide the science communities CI tools and services: n n High performance computing; data, data analysis and visualization; networked resources and virtual organizations; and learning and workforce development; 13 January 2009 Enterprise Kickoff

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; 13 January 2009 Enterprise Kickoff

School of Computing Mission 4 n Provide a sustainable CI that is n n n secure, efficient, reliable, accessible, usable, and interoperable, and that evolves as an essential national infrastructure for conducting science and engineering research and education. Reproducible and recoverable --- i. e. , version 237 of acroreading version 56 files. 13 January 2009 Enterprise Kickoff