The Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (CCAST; pronounced "c-cast") provides advanced cyberinfrastructure for computational research and education at NDSU and beyond. CCAST develops, manages, brokers, and operates high-performance, cloud, and interactive computing resources, and educates researchers on proper and efficient use of the resources and on other topics of interest to the computational science and engineering community. CCAST continually works to enhance NDSU's capabilities and competitive edge in disciplines and research that rely on advanced computing.

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• High-performance computing clusters
• Researcher-owned compute and storage units
• Permanent and scratch data storage
• Fast data transfer via Globus and ScienceDMZ
• Training in advanced research computing and related topics
• Consulting and computational workflow development
• Proposal writing assistance

• CCAST Advanced Research Computing Training, Spring 2023
• Research publications enabled by the use of CCAST resources
• Multiple CCAST users among world's top-cited scientists
• NDSU receives NSF award for new supercomputing cluster

• Computational fluid modeling of floods
• Predicting OLED properties using advanced relativistic DFT calculations
• Financial, economics, and business analytics
• Future farming by artificial intelligence, robotic, and cloud computing
• Increasing pulse crop productivity using genomics, phenotyping, and modeling
• Multiscale modeling of complex nanosheet materials
• Computational methods for motif discovery in biological units
• Mapping and cloning disease resistance genes in barley and wheat
• Computational intelligence
• Predictive modeling and analytics for preventive health application
• Identification of multi-omic marker associations in pancreatic cancer
• Dynamics of photoexcited nanomaterials
• Genomic basis of fetal programming in beef cattle
• Modeling light-driven processes at the surfaces and interfaces of nanomaterials
• Predicting the glass transition temperature behavior of polymers 

Physical/Delivery Address:
1805 NDSU Research Park Drive N
Fargo, ND 58102

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 6050 Dept. 4540
Fargo, ND 58108-6050

Phone: (701) 231-5184
Email: ndsu.ccast.support@ndsu.edu

Virtual Office Hours (via Zoom):
Wednesdays, 3:00-4:00 PM
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