College of Engineering

Visualization and Computation Advancing Research (ViCAR) Center

The ViCAR Center is a campus-wide state-of-the-art research computing facility that is open to Faculty and Students across campus.   

Visualization Systems

  • The State-of-the-art is a large MechDyne ARC-6 visualization system for advanced High Definition 36K resolution
  • 10 HTC-VIVE PRO Headsets, Controllers and tracking sensors with tall mounts,
  • 2 Oculus Rift HMDs, Controllers and tracking sensors.
  • The second Visualization system consists of Mechdyne PowerWall, 3D Stereo-vision with Tracking, 3D printer, and ZED stereo cam.

High Performance Systems

  • CRAY XC-30ac, 16 computational nodes, 296 cores, 4 K40 GPU nodes, 4 TB memory
  • SUN 6000 Blade, 60 nodes, 360 cores, 1 TB memory
  • Mid-Range Systems
  • Two HP Z840, 2 Nvidia K40 GPU accelerator, 128 GB memory, 20 Cores
  • Supermicro GPU Cluster, four P100 Nvidia Nodes + 12 TB file server with 256 GB + 16 GB/GPU node

Storage Systems

  • NetApp Storage, 1.8 PB raw storage. 600 TB NFS mounted to Cray.
  • Dell Storage System, 900 TB

Partial List of Software Applications

  • MATHEMATICA, MATLAB, FORTRAN, C, C++, (CCE, Intel, GNU), PERL, PYTHON, JAVA, R.
  • Toolkits: MPI 3.0, OpenMP, CUDA, OpenACC
  • COMSOL, ANSYS, Gaussian


Contact us

Dr. Marwan Bikdash, Interim and Founding Director
Dr. Balu Gokaraju, Associate Director
Dr. Kristen Rhinehardt, Assistant Director for High-Performance Computing
Dr. Yogesh Kale, HPC Research Sys. Admin