North Dakota University System Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (CCAST)

The Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (CCAST; pronounced “c-cast“) provides advanced cyberinfrastructure for 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 is the largest academic supercomputing facility in the state of North Dakota, with more than 12,000 CPU cores and dozens of GPUs. The Center also manages research data storage systems totaling 10 petabytes of capacity. In addition, CCAST has rigorous training and internship programs in advanced research computing. In the past four years, CCAST has trained over 600 students, staff, and faculty at NDSU and at other institutions in North Dakota, and has provided internships to more than 40 students.

We continually work to enhance NDSU’s capabilities and competitive edge in disciplines and research that rely on advanced computing.