Intel Donation Boosts High-End EM/RF Research
ElectroScience Laboratory is proud to announce the equipment donation received from Intel Corporation. The equipment -16 Intel E7 4870 Xeon processors- represents a contribution valued at $72,624, one of the largest equipment gifts received by ESL from industry.
The processors donated to ESL has enabled researchers to perform high-end EM and RF research. Recently, they have proved to be a key computational asset for Professor Joel Johnson and his remote sensing group at the ESL. The horse power of the processors enabled efficient processing and analysis of the datasets that has been of key benefit to his research programs, such as a $3 million, three-year grant from NASA to develop Ultra-Wideband Software Defined Microwave Radiometer (UWBRAD) that can determine temperatures deep under Greenland’s ice sheets from airplanes.
Similarly Professor Kubilay Sertel, who specializes in Terahertz (THz) devices and systems, and his group have been using the Intel CPUs in a custom workstation to carry out large scale EM simulations of THz sensors and components. In particular, he employs the workstation for the computer-aided design of THz-frequency on-chip antennas, devices as well as novel non-contact probes for wafer-scale characterization of next generation integrated circuits.
Other researchers and faculty, such as Professor Khalil Waleed and Professor John L. Volakis, are taking advantage of the processors in their research, some of which are used to process highly sensitive, export-controlled research program information.
