About the Centre
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Modelling was tha part of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Rzeszów. The Interdisciplinary Centre for Computational Modelling was brought to life by the Resolution No. 229/11/2013 of the Senate of the University of Rzeszów. It is located at 1 Pigonia Street in Rzeszów. It was built and equipped from the project funds under the "Regional Operational Programme of the Subcarpahian Voivodeship for the years 2007-2013". Since April 2014, the Head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Modelling was dr hab. Jan G. Bazan, prof. UR. On 1st October 2019, in connection with the reorganization, dr hab. Jan G. Bazan, prof. UR took over the position of the Head of the Institute of Computer Science. Dr Lech Zaręba was appointed to the position of the Head of the Interdysciplinary Centre for Computer Modelling. It currently employs 17 researchers specialising in technical IT, including 2 researches with a post-doctoral degree, 11 doctors, 3 masters. In addition to 120 modern PC workstations, the teaching and research facilities of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Modelling include a PEGAZ computing cluster with a computing power of approximately 7.5 TeraFLOPS, 88 INTEL Xeon E5-2620 processors (each with 6 cores, clock frequency of 2.0GHz and 15MB of cash memory), RAM of over 1TB (1032GB, 258 x 4GB DDR3 1333MHz) and disk space of approximately 18 TB. It is currently the most powerful computing installation in the Subcarpathian region, enabling complex calculations associated with research projects requiring massively concurrent calculations (simultaneously on a large number of processors or cores, as the cluster provides the possibility to run calculations on 480 computing threads at the same time). In addition, the teaching and research facilities of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Modelling includes process control kits based on advanced microprocessor technology, iris identification test kits, dactyloscopic image identification test kits, face tracking and recognition kits in a video stream, and an automatic human figure tracking kit in a video stream. This computing facility enables complex calculations related to research projects requiring calculations with massive concurrency (simultaneously on a large number of processors or cores, as the cluster offers the possibility to run calculations on 480 computing threads simultaneously). In addition, the teaching and research facilities of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Modelling include process control kits based on advanced microprocessor technology, iris identification test kits and identification test kits using fingerprint images. There are also kits for tracking and recognising faces in a video stream and a kit for automatically tracking a human figure in the video stream.
The mission of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Modelling is to carry out the following activities:
1. Inspiring and conducting interdisciplinary research located at the interface between computer science and other disciplines.
2. Supporting activities to acquire and implement research grants.
3. Making the resources of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Modelling available through awarding of the computing grants. It means to have the right to use the computing power available in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computational Modelling.
4. Improving the quality of education at our university by using the equipment of Interdisciplinary Centre for Computational Modelling in teaching.
5. Increasing the educational offer at the University of Rzeszów by introducing the new fields of study, namely, Information Technology and Econometrics and introducing Cognitive Science specialisation in the field of Technical and Information Technology Education.
6. Establishing the cooperation with the business which will be based on mutual realization with the companies of different brunches of research and implementation projects.