Member Benefits
Corporate Program Memberships provide organizations with a variety of benefits to choose from, such as:
Technology Briefing & Tour Days
- Meeting at Cornell with briefings and discussions about your organization's specific
interests and needs in advanced IT and high-performance computing
- Examples of participants: Alion Science and Technology,
ANSYS, Boeing,
Click Commerce, EDS,
ExxonMobil,
Fluent, Ford Motor Company,
Gen Re, IBM,
Infosys, ISA Technologies,
LexisNexis, NASA,
Northrop Grumman, Rolls Royce,
Syngenta, Pfizer
- IT strategy and planning advice and best practices discussions
Access to HPC systems
- Production HPC systems access
- Queued access or Member-dedicated access (24x7) to current systems
- Rapid, custom installation of new systems to meet specific hosting needs
- Ideal for performance testing, peak processing, or "try before you buy"
- Emerging technologies access (new systems, processors, interconnects, etc.)
- Test access to technologies if available or consulting advice
Systems consulting
- Architecture consulting
- HPC clusters and symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems
- Networks, including InfiniBand and TeraGrid
- Storage systems, including fiber channel SATA hard drives, tape libraries
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) consulting
- Using SOA to run applications and data across geographically disperse platforms and operation systems
- Multiple OEM experience
- HPC operating system consulting
- Systems planning consulting
- Systems deployment consulting (available on-site at Member facilities)
- Examples HVB Group (Munich), Northrop Grumman (VA), US EPA (OH).
- Large-scale data analysis with Web services-based architectures consulting
Application, programming, and tools consulting
- Application porting
- Application parallelization consulting
- Debugging
- Message Passing
- Tuning and optimization
- Data intensive computing consulting
- Large-scale data analysis and retrieval
- Using Relational Database Systems (RDBS) as HPC data engines
- Web services for seamless HPC consulting
- .NET consulting
- SQL Server 2005 consulting
Early access to publicly available CAC research and advice
- Sample R&D areas-of-interest
- Database technologies
- Pipeline management
- Integration of HPC clusters for data mining & real-time analysis
- Systems management issues
- System workload studies (sponsored by Unisys)
- Information access and analysis systems research
- Grid technologies
- Desktop framework
- Virtual PC
- Cycle scavenging
- Grid computing using Web services
- Job scheduling
- Low latency/high throughput scheduling with SQL
- Triggered checkpoints
- Job restarts and migration
- Dynamic resource allocation/deal location
- Networking architectures
- Windows HPC
Access to training and events
- CAC training and education workshops or one-on-one training
- Compiling and porting applications
- Parallel programming
- SQL and HPC
- Web services
- CAC is responsible for developing user training, education, and optimization for the TACC Sun HPC award
Access to CAC staff subject matter expertise (SME) consulting
- Besides systems and application development skills, CAC has subject matter expertise in areas such as:
Member-in-Residence at Cornell option
- Member office on-site at Cornell University
- To facilitate better technology transfer from CAC
- To investigate and build better research relationships across campus
- Turnkey
- Includes Cornell ID card, campus parking pass option, Internet access, office services, networking to high-performance computers
- 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, multi-year
- Examples of Member-in-Residence participants
- On-site at CAC examples:
- A USDA ARS computational biologist is on-site at CAC developing genome scale DNA and protein sequence analysis techniques
- Kodak's Technical Associate of the Chief Technical Officer spent a year at CAC as the liaison between Kodak and Cornell in order to enhance scientific interactions between the institutions
Opportunities to develop separate sponsored research agreements with Cornell University faculty
- Research agreements involving Cornell faculty with specific deliverables and the generation of intellectual property are:
- Cornell Computing and Information Science (CIS) researchers are available for industry collaborations:
- Cornell University faculty have expertise in over 100 fields, including:
- Engineering
- For example, Anthony Ingraffea, has been PI on over $30 million in R&D projects from federal and corporate sponsors, including Boeing, Caterpillar, General Dynamics, Kodak, IBM, and Schlumberger.
- Shefford Baker worked with Klaus Schwarz of IBM Research and the simulation program PARANOID to better understand defects in thin metal films used in integrated circuits, camera, and lasers
- Biology: Agriculture and
Life Sciences, Chemical, Plant, Molecular and Genetics
- Medicine
- Finance and Business
- Physics
- Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Cornell is a top ten ranked research university with
$575 million in private and public sector funding
