In January of 1998, Vice Provost Sean Sullivan announced the formation of an ad-hoc task group in "High Performance Research Computing." This committee was formed, in large part, to evaluate the conjecture that the infrastructure available to UB faculty in computational science and engineering was substandard. Further, it was conjectured that the lack of satisfactory facilities places this university at risk in terms of being competitive at the national level in its ability to attract faculty and to secure research funding in areas that rely on significant computation and visualization. The group was charged with evaluating the current scenario in computational science and engineering at UB, evaluating the capabilities and limitations of the current infrastructure, and making recommendations in terms of such infrastructure.

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Subcommittees

1. High Performance Computing at UB

   • Bruce Pitman, Chair, pitman@galileo.math.buffalo.edu

   • Corky Brunskill, corky@eng.buffalo.edu

   • Mary Flanagan, maryf@acsu.buffalo.edu

   • Jiali Gao, jiali@tams.chem.buffalo.edu

   • David Kofke, kofke@eng.buffalo.edu

   • Abani Patra, abani@eng.buffalo.edu

   • Jean-Claude Thill, jcthill@acsu.buffalo.edu

    

2. High Performance Computing in Western New York

   • Tom Furlani, Chair, furlani@acsu.buffalo.edu

   • David Kofke, kofke@eng.buffalo.edu

   • Harry King, king@krypton.chem.buffalo.edu

   • Charles Weeks, weeks@hwi.buffalo.edu

    

3. High Performance Computing in New York State

   • Jean-Claude Thill, Chair, jcthill@acsu.buffalo.edu

   • Hinni Martens, martens@acsu.buffalo.edu

    

4. Site Visits

   • Tom Furlani, Chair, furlani@acsu.buffalo.edu

    

5. Facilities

   • Corky Brunskill, Chair, corky@eng.buffalo.edu

   • Mary Flanagan, maryf@acsu.buffalo.edu

   • Tom Furlani, Chair, furlani@acsu.buffalo.edu

   • Peyman Givi, givi@acsu.buffalo.edu

   • Hinni Martens, martens@acsu.buffalo.edu

   • Abani Patra, abani@eng.buffalo.edu

Schedule

February 10: First meeting of the committee.

March 20: Solid first drafts due.

Week of March 23: Comments on draft and revisions by subcommittee chairs.

Week of March 30: Distribution of "final" version of draft.

April 7 (4:00, 684 NSM): Second/Final meeting of the committee.  Discussion of final draft.

April 24: Submission of final report to Vice Provost Sean Sullivan.