Resources
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
- Windows Cluster: computer cluster based on desktop grid technology
- 4 computing nodes
- 128 GB memory
- 4TB disk space
- Windows
- Windows Cluster: computer cluster based on desktop grid technology
- Servers and workstations
- Amber: GPU workstation
- CPU:Intel® CoreTM i9-10980XE (24.75 MB cache, 18 cores, 36 threads, 3.00 GHz to 4.80 GHz Turbo)
- GPU:Dual NVIDIA® RTXTM A4500, 20 GB GDDR6, NVLink SLI, 4 DP
- Memory: 256 GB
- Hard Drive: 2TB NVMe
- Linux
- Diamond: Large-memory workstation
- CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2687W v3 @ 3.10GHz (10 cores)
- GPU: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 (# CUDA Cores: 3072; 48 GB memory
- Memory: 256 GB
- Hard Drive: 4TB disk space
- Linux
- Wastewater: Advanced GPU
- Dell Precision T7500 Workstation
- CPU: Quad-core Intel Xeon, 2.53GHz, 12GB memory
- GPU: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 (# CUDA Cores: 3,072; 48 GB memory)
- Memory: 65 GB
- Hard Drive: 4 TB disk space
- Windows
- Amber: GPU workstation
- 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
- 20 TB backuped networked storage space on University Research Cluster
- Unlimited storage space on Dropbox
- 70″ flat LCD screen (Wireless Display supported)
- Smart Board
GPS Hardware
- Trimble R12i
- Survey grade (up to mm-level precision)
- Network RTK
- Tilt Compensation
- Trimble GeoXM/XT
- Mapping grade (submeter level prevision)
- Rugged shells
- Maps features remotely in field
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
- ArcGIS Enterprise
- GeoServer (open-source; server side)
- OpenLayers (open-source; client side)