Welcome to the UTEP Distributed Computing Lab (DCL), which was established in Fall 2003. The DCL project, in addition to enriching the curriculum and facilitating inter-disciplinary research, has assisted in the recruitment and support of underrepresented minorities, with the objective of creating a pipeline of students from high school through graduate school that are trained in the design, operation and applications of high-performance computers.

Accomplishments to date include:

1) The design and construction of a 40-node cluster by DCL students, which serves as the hub for educational, research and outreach activities;

2) Fine-tuning of the cluster, which resulted in 146 GFLOPS performance speed;

3) Migration of research projects onto the cluster and evaluation of performance;

4) Creation of cluster-based experiences for students in the curriculum;

5) Engagement of graduate and undergraduate students in the DCL; and

6) Conducting outreach to middle- and high-school students, particularly underrepresented minorities and women, to inspire their interest in CISE.

Research Projects (Past & Present):

1) Cluster performance (evaluation of speed-up for different applications under different operating conditions)

2) Neuro-fuzzy simulation & performance

3) Distributed solution of linearity space solutions

4) Enhancement of spatial resolution in electrocardiography

5) Optimal Location of the Dipole Model of the Human Heart Inside the Human Torso Using A Numerical Approach To Find A Time-Dependent Solution

6) Biomedical Imaging in Multi-electrode Electrocardiography

7) Dedicated Distributed Memory Servers

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