Research & Innovation

The primary mission of the Center for Computational Research is to enable research and scholarship at UB by providing faculty, staff, and students with access to high-performance computing and visualization resources, including staff with expertise in computational science, parallel computing, software development, advanced database engineering, graphical user interfaces, portal design, bioinformatics, advanced data analytics and data driven science. 

 

Highlights of Research Facilitated by CCR Resources:

This section highlights just a few of the many research projects currently utilizing our resources.  We love hearing about the research being done on our systems!  Please fill out this form to be featured on our website

  • Garwood Medical Devices
    7/8/21
    Garwood Medical Devices is based in downtown Buffalo and is developing “smart bandage” medical devices. The devices will contain integrated sensor and communications technologies to enable unprecedented outpatient treatment for implant infections and chronic wounds.
  • Combustion
    3/31/12
    Professor Paul DesJardin of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department and CCR user, employs computational fluid dynamics to develop a better understanding of the turbulent flow for improved predictions of fire intensity and growth.
  • Fostering Economic Development
    6/26/13
    Sentient Science uses CCR cluster to advance its ability to create computational simulations of mechanical devices
  • Magnetic Moments
    9/16/13
    Chemistry professor and CCR user, Jochen Autschbach, is a co-author of a paper that reports a major breakthrough regarding the properties of a catalyst that chemists have been seeking for decades.
  • REDFly
    10/23/14
    REDfly seeks to include all experimentally verified fly regulatory elements along with their DNA sequence, their associated genes, and the expression patterns they direct. Dr. Marc Halfon (Biochemistry) and CCR have built a valuable tool for the research community.
  • Geochemical Heterogeneity
    5/12/15
    Dr. Richelle Allen-Kin (Department of Geology) is working to systematically evaluate the relative impacts of soil and sorption heterogeneity on contaminant storage and removal in sedimentary aquifers.
  • HPC for Groundwater Remediation
    5/12/15
    High performance computing was used to design cost-effective systems to safeguard the nation’s groundwater supplies from contaminated sites. The search procedures and tools that come from this research can be tailored to a wide variety of geoscience challenges.
  • High School Workshop
    8/1/13
    CCR in collaboration with Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Hauptman-Woodward Institute, and others offer an intensive weeklong workshop for high school students every summer.
  • Bioinformatics - miRdSNP
    8/8/12
    Software and a website developed at CCR, miRdSNP, aim to enable researchers to further explore the effects of SNPs on micro-RNA binding in relation to human diseases by providing a database of manually curated disease-associated SNPs from the available literature
  • xTuition
    8/9/12
    CCR is collaborating with researchers at the Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI) to develop an expert crystallization knowledge system built upon the vast library of historical data from crystallization experiments.