CSE Facilities
Avery Hall
The CSE Department is housed in the newly renovated Avery Hall. Avery's academic elegance coupled with state-of-the-art classrooms make it a comfortable home for the Department. Take a virtual tour of the building and get a closer look.
Research Computing Facility
The Research Computing Facility (RCF) is available campus-wide to researchers who require high performance computing resources and is located in the Miller & Paine building in downtown Lincoln. RCF is home to the PrairieView Visualization Center, and PrairieFire, UNL's supercomputer. Prairieview is RCF's incursion into visualization. With the raw "horse power" provided by Prairiefire and the growing need for facilities with the capacity to view high resolution images, Prairieview will provide an answer. Utilizing the same idea behind a Beowulf cluster, an array of projectors is used to create a higher resolution image than can be created with a single projector.
RCF provides a diverse group of supercomputing and clustering resources for local researchers and are used in the following ways:
- Computationally Intensive Science and Engineering
- Basic Computer Science Research
- Education and Training.
Prairiefire is a 128-node Beowulf cluster, originally constructed in 2002. At that time it was considered the 107th most powerful supercomputer in the world, according to the TOP500 supercomputer list.
Prairiefire was recently substantially upgraded through an NSF/MRI (Major Research Instrumentation) grant in cooperation with the Water Resources Research Initiative(WRRI) and UNL's Office of Research. It now consists of 256 2.2 GHz Opteron (64-bit) processors, in 128 nodes each containing 4 GB of RAM.
South Stadium
In the Spring of 2008, South Stadium will be the new location for research activities in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UNL.
Both PrairieFire, UNL's supercomputer, and PrairieView, the CSE Department's visualization center, will relocate to the partially renovated building.
The close physical proximity to Avery Hall will afford the Department a more cohesive working relationship between education and research.
Other research groups and labs that will be part of the relocation include the ANDES lab and the Senior Design lab.
The June and Paul Schorr III Center for Computer Science and Engineering Research was made possible by a generous donation from Chip Schorr in honor of his parents who are graduates and long-time supporters of the University.
This state-of-the-art facility will include a two-story media gallery including high-definition visualization capabilites and cutting edge technology.
