KATRINA: AMD Opteron Cluster

This 64 bit cluster possesses a total of 86 cores. One server has 32 core and 128 GB of RAM for large data set calculations. Blaster has a 1 teraflop S1070 board with 4GPUs and 960 cores. This cluster may be reached remotely using nomachine or using a terminal in the Pattern Analysis Lab.

Pattern Analysis Laboratory: FACILITIES

Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University

Data Collection and Processing

Researchers at the Pattern Analysis Laboratory are actively collecting massive data sets for the purposes of algorithm development. A face data base has been collected consisting of approximately 800,000 images at HD resolution with variations in illumination. High spatial and temporal resolution imagery is also being collected.

Phantom Vision High SPeed Camera 4.2

Resolution: 512 x 512 pixels

Speed: 2,100 full-resolution pictures-per-second (pps)

Max windowed speed: 90,000 pps

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II

Resolution: 4992 x 3328 pixels

Laboratory Facilities

The Pattern Analysis Lab is located in Weber 212. The cluster computing facilities are located next door in Weber 210. The Lab possesses a number of data acquisition devices for integrating teaching and research.