CoRE Building

96 Frelinghuysen Road, Busch Campus

Piscataway, NJ 08854-8008

Telephone: 732/445-3443; Fax: 732/445-0547

James Flanagan, Director

The Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP) is a multidisciplinary Advanced Technology Center sponsored by the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; and 21 industrial and corporate sponsors. CAIP conducts computer applications research in the areas of parallel and distributed computing, machine vision, speech processing, computer-aided design, scientific visualization and quantification and multimedia information systems, and facilitates industry-university technology transfer. CAIP`s research mission is to apply the technologies of high-speed scientific computing to the solution of industrial problems. Computational resources include:

Sun Microsystems Enterprise 10000, Sun`s highest-end multiprocessor server: 128 CPUs, 512 MB per processor, and approximately 3/4 TB of disk storage

IBM SP2 multiprocessor system: 8 CPUs

20 Sun SparcServer-20/62s, each with 2 CPUs and between 192 MB and 512 MB of RAM

A Beowolf cluster in the Applied Software Systems Lab (TASSL): 8 dual processor Pentium IIIs