UrbSys Lab Physical Address: 2701 SW 23rd Terrace, Gainesville, FL 32608
Ravi Srinivasan PhD
Director, UrbSys Lab
M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management
College of Design, Construction and Planning
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611
Email: sravi (at) ufl.edu
About our lab building
UrbSys Lab is located in Solar Decathlon House, a net-positive building, that was designed in 2010; re-built in Gainesville in 2014. The project was led by Prof. Robert Ries. The house is 797-square-feet, and includes elements from historic Florida houses such as the North Florida vernacular Cracker House. Some of the borrowed elements include a covered open porch, a breezeway or “dog trot” oriented to the prevailing wind and a porous, breathable building skin.
For high-speed computing, we use University of Florida’s high performance computing network, HiPerGator, that operates and supports the large-scale computing systems and data storage facilities for the benefit of the UF research community. HiPerGator has 23,000+ cores, 4+ Petabytes of storage 200+ Gigabit per second to the Campus Research Network. All of the processors available on HiPerGator are homogenous in terms of instruction set and support the 64-bit extensions to the Intel X86 instruction set architecture (X86_64).