The Center for Applied GIScience uses the latest specialized hardware and industry-standard software to collect, store, analyze, visualize, and distribute geographic data products and their derivatives. Further, the Center has access to advanced supercomputing resources held by NSF XSEDE , Open Science Grid, RENCI (Renaissance Computing Institute), and URC (University Research Computing) at UNC Charlotte.
Computing Hardware
- High-performance computing clusters
- GEM: advanced computer cluster for GEospatial Modeling
- 64 computing cores [AMD Opteron; 2.0 GHz of clock rate]
- 256GB memory [4GB/core]
- 6TB disk space
- Linux
- JADE: computer cluster based on desktop grid technology
- 36 computing cores
- 34GB memory
- 4TB disk space
- Linux
- Sapphire: computer cluster based on desktop grid technology (being updated; 156 CPUs coming!)
- 92 computing cores
- 184 GB memory
- 9TB disk space
- Windows
- Servers and workstations
- Diamond: Large-memory workstation
- Dell Precision tower 7910 (8 core)
- 256G memory (4x32G)
- 4TB disk space
- Windows
- Advanced GPU server (GPU: Graphics Processing Units)
- Dell Precision T7500 Workstation
- CPU: Quad-core Intel Xeon, 2.53GHz, 12GB memory
- GPU
- NVIDIA K20 (2496 cores, 5G memory)
- NVIDIA GTX580 (512 cores, 1.5G memory)
- NVIDIA Quadro 2000 (192 cores, 1.0G memory)
- 1 HP Blade 3000 System
- 5 HP BL460c Workstation Blades
- 2 HP BL460c Server Blades
- AG Node pc (Dell precision 390)
- 16 Lab Workstation PCs
- 1 Dell Workgroup Server
- 15 TB backuped networked storage space
- 2 Field Laptops
- 4 PDAs
- 70" flat LCD screen (Wireless Display supported)
- High-res video conferencing
GPS Hardware
- PDA based
- Trimble GeoXM/XT
- Mapping grade
- Rugged shells
- Survey grade
- Pole mounted antenna
- Connects to GPS
- Maps features remotely in field
- Trimble ProXR
- Real-time Laser Range Finder
Computing Software
- GIS and Remote Sensing SW
- ESRI ArcGIS (full GIS)
- ESRI ArcPad (mobile GIS)
- IDRISI (full GIS)
- ENVI (remote sensing)
- ERDAS Imagine (remote sensing)
- Statistical packages
- SPLUS
- SAS
- SAS JMP
- SPSS
- R (open-source)
- Database platforms
- Oracle 9 (relational DB)
- SDE (middleware)
- MySQL (open-source)
- PostGRE SQL (open-source)
- Internet/Web GIS
- ArcGIS Server
- GeoServer (open-source; server side)
- OpenLayers (open-source; client side)
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