Signature Facilities
The Laboratory Backbone
KoKo High-Performance Computing Cluster聽(FAU Jupiter聽Campus)聽
A large-scale聽parallel computing environment serv-ing聽as the classical backbone for聽hybrid quantum-classical workflows. The cluster聽provides 7,120 cores聽and 87 GPU accelerators (NVIDIA V100, A100, P100, and K80), enabling large-scale聽molecu-lar聽simulations, fragment library generation, crypto-graphic benchmarking, and machine learning tasks that seed quantum computations. A high-speed 10 Gb/s fiber-optic link between the Boca聽Raton and Jupiter聽campuses enables efficient聽remote access and data transfer.
D-Wave Leap Quantum Cloud Access聽
The College has an active integration with D-Wave's Leap cloud service, providing faculty and students access to D-Wave's 5,000+ qubit Advantage quan-tum annealing system. This cloud platform under-pins multiple ongoing and near-term research pro-jects across biological sciences, chemistry and biochemistry, mathematics and statistics, physics, psychology, and urban planning, and is being incorporated into coursework across departments.
Chemistry Computational Laboratory聽
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry聽maintains聽the TAPERSS C++ codebase鈥攁聽ready-to-integrate baseline for聽hybrid quantum-classical molecular聽folding workflows鈥攁long with classical HPC infrastructure used to generate ground-truth data and discrete-path-sampling fragment libraries聽required聽to seed quantum annealing simulations.
Urban Planning Data Center聽
The Department of Urban聽and聽Regional Planning聽operates聽a dedicated data center聽with file, application, web, and backup servers, NVIDIA GPU licensing, VDI infrastructure, UPS power聽management, and high-bandwidth networking up to 25 Gb/s. The department聽is actively exploring D-Wave Leap integration聽for聽transportation optimization, urban design, and disaster聽response applications.
Center聽for聽Cryptology and Information Security (CCIS)听听
Dedicated to original,聽cutting-edge聽research聽in聽cryptology聽and information security, with a major聽focus on quantum-safe cryptography.