The MIT, Center for Ocean Engineering Vortical Flow Research Laboratory directed by Professor Dick K.P. Yue,
is a 800 square ft laboratory with advanced capabilities for simulation of complex vortical flows.

The lab's resources are utilized by twelve graduate and undergraduate students and eight research staff and affiliates.

Research is performed utilizing powerful computer workstations and LINUX clusters,
as well as computer-video image conversion and
state-of-the-art flow simulation animation technologies.

The highlight of the VFRL computational facility
is a 32 node dual AMD processor LINUX Beowulf cluster.
Post-processing workstations include INTEL based LINUX and WINDOWS XP PCs.

Members of the VFRL have extensive use
of DoD HPC resources through sponsored grants and Challenge Projects
using upwards of 10 Million CPU hours per year, since 1997.