Services

The Center for Computation and Visualization provides high-performance computing and visualization services to the Brown community.

Faculty members, researchers, and students turn to CCV when they need to:

• take advantage of optimized numerical libraries and scientific applications
• run, test or debug parallel or compute-intensive algorithms and applications
• produce, store, backup, analyze or visualize large datasets
• transfer and share data at high bandwidths through a parallel file system
• access computing systems with specialized hardware, such as large memories or GPU co-accelerators
• use Unix/Linux systems to run complex applications and scripting tasks
• integrate externally funded hardware into an on-campus data center.

User Services & Support

The CCV staff consults with prospective users to determine the best way to use our systems.

We support our systems through many activities, including:

• software and application installation, optimization, and maintenance
• code debugging, profiling and parallelization
• education and outreach through documentation, workshops and courses
• proposal development for CCV-related projects
• application development for funded, collaborative projects.