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
  • 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
  • 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)