Distributed & Parallel Computing Cluster

The Distributed and Parallel Computing cluster (DPCC) has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through a Major Research Instrumentation grant along with matching funds from the University. The goal of the system is to create a computing infrastructure to support a multitude of activities including Streaming databases, Data Mining, Video streaming, Skin lesion database with Image processing, processing of data for two Particle Physics Collider experiments as well as being a tool in education and outreach.  The principal investigator for the grant is Dr. Sharma Charkravarthy and is joined by 9 other CSE facluty, 2 members of the UTA Physics Department and a faculty member of UT Southwest Medical Center at Dallas

The cluster currently contains 97 machines, 193 processors, 190GB RAM and over 72TB (7.2X10¹³ bytes) of disk storage.  Future plans for the cluster include the acquisition of a number of networking test instruments and a Shared Memory Processing system (SMP).