Laboratory for Advanced Scientific Computing and Applications

The goal of the Laboratory for Advanced Scientific Computing and Applications (LASCA) is to provide expertise and leadership in high-end scientific computing research and education at Virginia Tech. Located in the Advanced Computing and Information Technology Center (ACITC), Torgersen Hall, the laboratory is a visible and strategic center of activity in applied high-performance computing on campus. LASCA participants do basic research in high-performance parallel computation and assist scientists and engineers in applying high-end computing resources to their problems. By bringing together experts in scientific computing and its applications, LASCA helps build the kind of multidisciplinary teams needed to address today's most challenging computational science problems.

LASCA affiliates are engaged in four broad categories of activities:

LASCA affiliates include faculty and students from two broad groups: those whose primary research interests include high-performance scientific computing, and those whose primary research activities are in another scientific or engineering discipline but who are actively applying high-end computing resources to their problems. Current participants are drawn from seventeen academic departments and ten research centers.

For further information please visit research.cs.vt.edu/lasca.