UCCRC Core Facilities: Scientific Image Reconstruction and Analysis

Scientific Director:  Robert M. Nishikawa, PhD

Technical Director:  Chun Wai Chan, MS

Phone: 773-702-6778

Website: http://siraf-login.bsd.uchicago.edu/siraf-wiki

The Scientific Image Reconstruction and Analysis Facility (SIRAF) provides high performance computing services for members of the UCCRC and the University research community. The facility services are available without chargeback fees for standard usage, and support basic research involving modeling and simulations, applied research into the development of new image analysis methods, and the application of Grid-based technologies to medical imaging and informatics.

The facility consists of a computing cluster with 272 CPU cores, 528GB of memory, 24 graphical processing accelerators, and an on-line storage capacity of 36TB. The cluster has licenses for the Matlab, IDL, and Mathematica scientific computing packages, as well as installations of commonly used software for parallel and grid computing (PVM, OpenMPI, Globus).

The SIRAF cluster was acquired via an NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant, with additional funding provided by the Univeristy of chicago Department of Radiology.

Services

  • Access to a high performance computing system and scientific software packages (Matlab, IDL, Mathematica) without chargeback fees;
  • Multi-terabyte on-line storage and archiving for computing involving large sets of data;
  • Access to parallel and Grid computing services.