About Us
The Center for Computation and Visualization provides high-performance computing and visualization services to the Brown community and also collaborates with researchers on projects across a vast range of disciplines.
Office of Information Technology
The Center for Computation and Visualization (CCV) is a center within the University's central IT organization, which is the Office of Information Technology (OIT). In addition to building and maintaining the University's hundreds of enterprise software, systems, and hardware, OIT is also responsible for driving the technological progress that enables scientific research. Executing on the University's research mission is the key role that CCV plays in OIT.
Our Mission
We envision an environment where computational best practices, innovative solutions, and expert knowledge combine to build advanced tools for research and to enable new discoveries. Our mission is to provide the scientific and technical computing expertise required to advance computational research and support Brown's academic mission. In practice, this frequently means partnering with researchers for projects that may span weeks, months, or years. In some cases, these partnerships can involve researchers using grant funds as partial support of one of our research software engineers or data scientists. We have a team of data scientists and research software engineers with a huge variety of scientific backgrounds (e.g., Engineering, Physics, Computer Vision, Biology, Psychology, Statistics, Applied Math, Computer Science, etc.), so we can closely calibrate a person with a project.
Our Team
Our Home
Our office is located at 180 George Street on Brown's main campus in Providence's College Hill neighborhood.
Built in 1960 and dedicated to Thomas J. Watson in 1961, the building was designed by architect Philip Johnson to house the IBM 7070 computer.
Today, it hosts the Center for Computation and Visualization, supporting research at Brown.
Computing Laboratory