UConn has partnered with Dell EMC and Intel to create a high performance computing cluster that students and faculty can use in their research. With this HPC Cluster, UConn researchers can solve problems that are computationally intensive or involve massive amounts of data in a matter of days or hours, instead of weeks.

The HPC cluster operated on the Storrs campus features 6,000 CPU cores, a high-speed fabric interconnect, and a parallel file system. Since 2011, it has been used by over 500 researchers, from each of the university’s schools and colleges, for over 40 million hours of scientific computation.

The U.S. Commerce Department announced Monday a grant of nearly $117,000 to help the University of Connecticut advance its plans for a center for manufacturers to use computers to test and modify product designs and manufacturing processes.

UConn, the federal Economic Development Administration and Connecticut Innovations, the state’s venture capital fund, are spending $2.1 million over five years to establish the Connecticut Manufacturing Simulation Center. It will give small and medium-sized Connecticut manufacturers access to computer-based design, modeling and simulation to test and modify product designs and manufacturing processes before making a prototype.

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