Centers for Scientific Exploration Our campus houses more than 70 advanced science laboratories. Professors and students use state-of-the-art equipment to conduct cutting-edge research.
Astrophysical Observatory See the stars and the planets as you have never seen them before through the computer-controlled telescope in our 16- foot domed observatory. The observatory is recognized by the International Astronomical Union as an official asteroid tracking station. Explore the craters of the moon, the rings of Saturn, the moons of Jupiter and the surface features of Mars.
New funding enhances CUNY High-Performance Computing Facility
The National Science Foundation has provided $1.3 million in grants to expand the capacity and power of the City University of New York’s High-Performance Computing Center (HPCC) located on the CSI campus. The grants will fund new supercomputers that will support faculty research and provide enhanced educational opportunities for students at CSI and across the CUNY system.
CSI researchers are using the HPCC supercomputers to analyze transportation systems in an effort to reduce traffic congestion and energy consumption.
“The addition of the new supercomputers makes the center the largest, most capable academic research computing facility in the City of New York,” observes Dr. Michael Kress, Vice President for Technology Systems at CSI and Executive Director of the HPCC. “We are now able to recruit new researchers to CSI and to better prepare our students for their future careers in science, engineering and mathematics.”
The grants will also enable the construction of an Interdisciplinary High-Performance Computing Center, a 170,000 square-foot facility to be located at CSI. The facility is expected to attract computational scientists from around the globe to CSI and CUNY.
In a related initiative, Congressional leaders have submitted a request that would provide an additional $2.5 million to CSI. That funding would enable CSI to continue to bring together leading transportation experts, economists, social scientists, mathematicians and computer scientists to develop advanced methods for innovative analysis of critical issues in transportation.
The supercomputers are also being used to drive advancements in health care and environmental management. Researchers at CUNY’s New York City College of Technology are using the HPCC computers at CSI to develop more accurate models of the heart in an effort to develop improved treatments for heart disease. Researchers at CUNY’s Cooperative Remote Environment Sensor Technology Center are using the systems to analyze air pollution over New York and along coastal areas.
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