History
Founded July 1, 2007 to better reflect the University's commitment to large-scale
computing, the Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing supercedes the Cornell
Theory Center which was established in 1985 under the direction of Nobel Laureate
and supercomputing visionary Kenneth Wilson. Cornell's leadership in high-performance computing was made possible by the dedicated Theory Center staff who were part of
its mission. The goal of the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing is to carry forward
this tradition of excellence in research computing.
Cornell Awards and Innovations
- First dedicated parallel MATLAB computing utility on the TeraGrid
- New York State Grid (NYSGrid) founding institution
- Best Collaboration with Government & Industry Award (HPCwire)
- $25 million Gates Foundation grant to Cornell University for new Faculty of Computing & Information Science (CIS) building
- First Northeast member of National LamdaRail (NLR) high-speed computer network; connected to NSF's TeraGrid, a national infrastructure for computing and data analysis
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Microsoft Institute for High Performance Computing grant award and Microsoft Technical Computing Initiative awards
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Dell Centers for Research Excellence Award
- Largest, single corporate-sponsored research grant in Cornell's history for Microsoft High-Performance Solutions center. Technology development and briefings, training, and/or consulting provided to over 350 business and public sector organizations, here and abroad.
- First Windows-based CAVE visualization system
- Computerworld/Smithsonian Award to the Center & the Advanced Cluster Computing Consortium (AC3) for uniting industry OEMs, ISVs, and users to advance HPC
- Intel Architecture Lab Award for Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) project
- First
Financial Industry Solutions Center (FISC) focused on using HPC to manage financial risk
- First parallel job scheduler for Windows (commercially licensed to Verari Systems Software)
- Intel Technology for Education grant to develop first cluster computing tools for Windows
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Gordon Bell Prizes for Price-Performance (including industry project with
Corning)
- First Dell supercomputer deployment (first Dell system to make "Top 500" supercomputer list)
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First & fastest IBM Scalable POWERparallel System SP2 supercomputer deployment (serial number 1)
- First IBM Scalable POWERparallel System SP1 supercomputer deployment; IBM's main beta test site
- Major New York State grant which drove the construction of
Frank H.T. Rhodes Hall
- First of five National Science Foundation supercomputing centers established by
Nobel Laureate Kenneth Wilson who inspired the scientific community with the notion
that computation is equal with theory and experiment in scientific inquiry
