Signature Facilities: The Laboratory Backbone
KoKo High-Performance Computing Cluster (FAU Jupiter Campus)
A large-scale parallel computing environment serv-ing as the classical backbone for hybrid quantum-classical workflows. The cluster provides 7,120 cores and 87 GPU accelerators (NVIDIA V100, A100, P100, and K80), enabling large-scale molecu-lar simulations, fragment library generation, crypto-graphic benchmarking, and machine learning tasks that seed quantum computations. A high-speed 10 Gb/s fiber-optic link between the Boca Raton and Jupiter campuses enables efficient remote access and data transfer.
D-Wave Leap Quantum Cloud Access
The College has an active integration with D-Wave's Leap cloud service, providing faculty and students access to D-Wave's 5,000+ qubit Advantage quan-tum annealing system. This cloud platform under-pins multiple ongoing and near-term research pro-jects across biological sciences, chemistry and biochemistry, mathematics and statistics, physics, psychology, and urban planning, and is being incorporated into coursework across departments.
Chemistry Computational Laboratory
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry maintains the TAPERSS C++ codebase—a ready-to-integrate baseline for hybrid quantum-classical molecular folding workflows—along with classical HPC infrastructure used to generate ground-truth data and discrete-path-sampling fragment libraries required to seed quantum annealing simulations.
Urban Planning Data Center
The Department of Urban and Regional Planning operates a dedicated data center with file, application, web, and backup servers, NVIDIA GPU licensing, VDI infrastructure, UPS power management, and high-bandwidth networking up to 25 Gb/s. The department is actively exploring D-Wave Leap integration for transportation optimization, urban design, and disaster response applications.
Center for Cryptology and Information Security (CCIS)
Dedicated to original, cutting-edge research in cryptology and information security, with a major focus on quantum-safe cryptography.