ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Clemson-developed technology helps partners out-compute and out-compete

As South Carolina moves toward a knowledge-based economy, information and communication technology is critical to the success of that paradigm. Clemson University’s computing strength supports economic development by enabling the University and its industry partners to reduce costs, improve quality and reduce the time required to move new ideas into the marketplace.

Clemson’s Electron Microscope facility, through a partnership with Hitachi,
includes some of the finest equipment in the nation under one roof. It
enables researchers in fields ranging from automotive engineering to
cancer research to view materials at the molecular level.

Fiber-optics network provides quick, easy way to transmit health care information among researchers

A high-speed fiber-optics network called the SC Light Rail now links South Carolina’s research universities, facilitating research collaboration and innovation. Clemson was instrumental in creating and perfecting the rail in 2008 as a member of Health Sciences South Carolina, a consortium comprising the state’s research universities and major health care systems.  

Implications for the rail’s use in medical research and health care delivery are boundless. For example, Clemson researchers affiliated with the Bioengineering Alliance of South Carolina now can transmit complex data, including the enormous files needed for radiological images and MRIs, to other research partners in mere seconds.

In addition to saving lives, such research collaboration in health care results in new products, from medical testing devices to prosthetics, that in turn spawn new companies and high-quality, high-paying jobs.

Electron Microscope facility offers clients top resources for viewing objects at atomic and molecular levels

Clemson’s Electron Microscopy program is considered one of the finest in the nation, with state-of-the-art equipment and a highly regarded professional staff.

The program offers a wide range of high-performance computing support to clients from other universities, as well as automotive, pharmaceutical, textile, electronics, environmental and medical industries, at a competitive price and minimum wait time. A high-speed T-line enables the lab to offer remote access on some of its scanning microscopes. Clients can view and control images from anywhere in real time using a PC. This saves clients both time and travel expense and allows them to maintain control of their experiments.

As another service to clients, the lab conducts annual workshops featuring distinguished scientists know internationally and nationally for their contributions to the field of microscopy.

Massive computing infrastructure offers engineering simulation capabilities with speed and simplicity

Design development and modification are among the most competitive and most expensive aspects of the automotive industry. The Clemson University Computational Center for Mobility Systems (CU-CCMS) provides computational modeling that can significantly reduce both the time and cost associated with design modification.

In addition to the unique and validated engineering simulation methods of its industry-focused approach, CU-CCMS offers clients a high-performance computing system that is among the top 10 most powerful computers at any American university and among the top 20 computers at any university center worldwide. CU-CCMS and Clemson Computing and Information Technology partnered with Sun Microsystems and Voltaire to build the system that performs more than 27 trillion mathematical computations per second.

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