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
