Resources
Facilities
Clinical Facilities
USF has numerous research and health care partnerships through affiliation agreements with hospitals and not-for-profit organizations in the metropolitan Tampa Bay area, including the U.S. Geological Survey. As a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Moffitt Cancer Center, located on the USF Tampa campus, is part of an elite group of cancer centers nationwide that focus on the quick translation of research advances to improvements in patient care and has developed a strong national reputation for excellence. The USF Health Morsani College of Medicine System is affiliated with the following major participating institutions: Tampa General Hospital, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, James A Haley Veterans Hospital, Morton Plant/Mease Hospital, C.W. Bill Young Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. These facilities provide training for USF Health Residents, Fellows and medical students in the Tampa Bay area. Additional research and training is also provided by the Shriner’s Children’s Hospital on the USF campus, the facilities of the Florida Hospital network, Bayfront Medical Center, and the USF Health outpatient clinics and research facilities, which include the USF Health Neuroscience Institute (Home of the Johnnie B. Byrd, Sr., Alzheimer’s Center) on the USF Tampa campus.
Research Computing
Research Computing operates a 1,000 core HIPAA compliant cluster as well as a 7,700-core general computation cluster with multi-core servers located in the on-campus datacenter. The nodes in the cluster are connected with either a QDR InfiniBand fabric (older hardware) or an Intel Omnipath fabric (new hardware) for computations as well as a separate Ethernet management network. All nodes in the cluster are connected (over either QDR InfiniBand or Omnipth) to a 2.1~PB GPFS system or a 300 TB BeeGFS system (dedicated to the HIPAA compliant cluster). The HPC cluster also has close to 100 nodes outfitted with Nvidia GPU resources with a total of 170 GPUs in production. The cluster is made available for instruction as well as research through a reservation policy. For more information can be found at http://rc.usf.edu. Research Computing also maintains a dedicated 100 Gbps Science DMZ
Advanced Visualization Center
In addition to high performance computing support, Research Computing manages the Advanced Visualization Center (AVC). The AVC provides access to the latest visualization techniques and workflows through its dedicated staff. The AVC has a 24-station visualization lab with a suite of visualization software packages. The AVC also supports a 20-megapixel 3D Viz wall, a rendering cluster and a suite of rapid prototyping resources. http://avc.web.usf.edu/
CSE GPU Computing
With the support of an NSF CISE Research Infrastructure (CRI) grant (PI: Yicheng Tu, CNS-1513126), we have built and deployed a GPU cluster to support its AI and data science research. Specifically, it is a cluster of 27 nodes with 145 GPU units of very high-end GPU NVIDIA processors providing 2.6 TB of aggregated GPU memory. The total computing power of this cluster is over 2 Peta FLOPS. It has a total of 21 Intel and 12 AMD co-processors adding to over 1,240 CPU cores. Every node in the cluster connects to high-bandwidth low latency 200 Gbps InfiniBand data fabric connected to a 500TB fault tolerant storage space configured with the Z File System (ZFS). We also have smaller standalone units of 8 GPU cluster with 3TB of memory and 5TB of disk space. Many desktop computers have additional GPU cards.
College of Engineering Machines Shop
A fully equipped machine shop, including milling machines, lathes, metal cutting, a welding center, drill presses, and a fabrication center. Fully staffed with professional machinists.
Technology Transfer Office (TTO)
The Patents & Licensing was established in 1990 to facilitate the commercialization of university intellectual property, including patents and copyrights. The TTO works with researchers and students in every college to ready new inventions for the patenting process and potential licensing opportunities. TTO's work allows for a focus on transferring cutting-edge research and innovation to the commercial marketplace, generating revenue, and diversifying the economy. The USF system ranks 14th in the nation among public universities and 34th world-wide for granted U.S. patents among all universities according to the Intellectual Property Owners Association (NAI, 2023). TTO endeavors to educate and promote innovation, jobs and technologies utilized in the public interest. TTO office hosts seminars and targets faculty presentations to facilitate the development and education of students and researchers. Topics for these events range from broad subjects like DPL Overview and Tech Transfer 101, to target-specific or requested subjects such as Working with Venture Capitalists, Legal Issues from Start-up to Series A, and Commercialization of Intellectual Property.
STEM Education Center
The STEM Education Center in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics offers challenging educational programs for gifted high school students. The Center’s aim is to promote creativity and provide pre-College students with an in-depth understanding of the various STEM Fields. Through exploration and research, the methods and applications of mathematics, computer science, and physical and biological sciences as well as technological innovations and inventions are presented. http://math.usf.edu/stem/