About the CUDA Research Center at TU Braunschweig
Research at the TU Braunschweig has traditionally been centered around computation in general and computer graphics in specific. We already have a working Tesla cluster at the university that is being operated and used by the group of Prof. Krafczyk which is mostly being used for computational fluid dynamics (CFD). These projects are funded through the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Additionally the TU Braunschweig is already an Intel Research Center and registered as a CUDA developer in order to take advantage of the new features in CUDA 4.0. 

About the co-PIs
Stefan Guthe is a senior researcher and post-doc in the Computer Graphics Lab of the Computer Science Department at TU Braunschweig. He received his MS in computer science and his PhD. in computer graphics from the University of Tübingen in Germany in 2004. During his last PhD. year he was a NVIDIA Graduate research Fellow and spent over 6 years working as an architect at NVIDIA prior to joining the TU Braunschweig as as senior researcher in 2011. His research interests include volume rendering, image & volume compression and graphics hardware architecture. He is using GPUs and GPU computing throughout his entire research ever since the first programmable shaders emerged. 

Marcus Magnor is a full professor at TU Braunschweig and heads the Computer Graphics Lab of the Computer Science Department. He received his BA (1995) and MS (1997) in Physics from Würzburg University and the University of New Mexico, respectively, and his PhD (2000) in Electrical Engineering from Erlangen University. For his post-graduate studies, he joined the Computer Graphics Lab at Stanford University. In 2002, he established the Independent Research Group Graphics-Optics-Vision at the Max-Planck-Institut Informatik in Saarbrücken. He completed his habilitation in 2005 and received the venia legendi for Computer Science from Saarland University. In 2009, he was Fulbright Scholar at the University of New Mexico, USA, where he holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor at the Physics and Astronomy Department. His research interests concern visual computing, i.e. visual information processing from image formation, acquisition, and analysis to image synthesis, display, perception, and cognition. Areas of research include, but are not limited to, computer graphics, computer vision, visual perception, image processing, computational photography, astrophysics, imaging, optics, visual analytics, and visualization. 

Manfred Krafczyk is the director of the Institute for Computational Modeling in Civil Engineering and the coordinator of international student affairs of the Department of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences at TU Braunschweig in Germany. In particular he coordinates the department’s double degree master exchange program between the University of Rhode Island and TU-Braunschweig, as well as the joint PhD. program. In addition he serves as a member of the DAAD ISAP exchange program committee. He received his diploma in physics and his PhD in civil engineering from TU Dortmund and is a full professor and the head of iRMB at TU Braunschweig since 2001. He is also the main person in charge of the Tesla Cluster at the TU Braunschweig. His research interests include all areas of computational fluid dynamics. 

Friedrich Wahl is a full professor in the Computer Science Department at TU Braunschweig and head of the Robotics and Process Control Group. He studied electrical engineering in Munich, specializing in cybernetics. From 1974 to 1981, he was working as a scientific assistant with Prof. Marko at the Institute of Communications Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, where in 1980 he finished his Ph.D. thesis on Two-Dimensional Recursive Filters and their Applications in Image Processing. 1981-1982 he held a visiting scientists position at the IBM Research Centre San Jose (areas of research: Automatic Document Analysis and Computer Vision for industrial inspection and quality control). From 1983-1986 Prof. Wahl worked at the IBM Research Center Zürich (Rüschlikon)(areas of research: Image Processing, NCI processing in computer networks, responsible for the computer vision project). 1984 the Technical University of Munich granted him the venia legendi in Digital Signal and Image Processing. Since 1986 Prof. Wahl is a full Professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. There he served from 1991 till 1993 as Dean of the Mathematics, Computer Science and Economics Department and from 1993 till 1995 as member of the Senate of the university. As head of the Institute for Robotics and Process Control, his research interests are in the areas of Algorithms in Robotics/Computer Vision, Programming Languages and Computer Architectures in Robotics, Parameter Estimation and Robot Control, Sensors and Navigation for Mobile Robots, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Task and Assembly Planning. Prof. Wahl is author/editor of several books and author/co-author of more than 150 journal and conference publications. He holds several patents. Since 1992 Prof. Wahl is Advisory Professor at Shanghai University, PR China. Since 2000 he is chairman of the Collaborative Research Centre 562 on 'Robotic Systems for Handling and Assembly'. He also is acting as consultant of large and medium size industrial companies and works as a reviewer in several national and international funding organizations. His research interests include Algorithms in Robotics/Computer Vision, Programming Languages and Computer Architectures in Robotics, Parameter Estimation and Robot Control, Sensors and Navigation for Mobile Autonomous Robots, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Task Planning and Assembly Planning, and Robotic Applications in Industrial and Medical Sciences. 

Hermann Matthies is a full professor in the Computer Science Department at TU Braunschweig and head of the Scientific Computing Group since 1995. He received his MS in Mathematics from the TU Berlin in Germany and his PhD. from MIT in Cambridge, USA in 1979. Until 1995 he has been working for GL in Hamburg, Germany focusing on research around wind energy and off-shore energy. Since he started leading the Scientific Computing Group in Braunschweig, he did several long-term research visits to foreign Universities, e.g. at the École Normale Supérieure Cachan in Paris, France, the Institute for Computational Engineering and Science at the University of Texas, at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and at the Lincoln University in Christchurch, New Zealand. His research interests include the development of algorithms for parallel computers and workstation clusters as well as the interplay between the engineering sciences, mathematics and computer science represent the central field of activity of the institute. 

Josef Schüle is a senior researcher in the Data Center at TU Braunschweig. He received his MS in Chemistry from the University of Tübingen in Germany and his PhD. in Chemistry from the University of Münster in Germany. He also received a MS in Mathematics from the Fern Universität Hagen. After receiving his PhD. he was working as a senior researcher and post-doc in theoretical Physics at the University of Stockholm in Sweden from 1986 to 1988. Before joining the Data Center at the TU Braunschweig in 1990, he was also a senior researcher at the FU Berlin in Germany from 1988 to 1989. His research interests include programming on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs), parallelization of the Hybrid-Code from the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Simulation of reactive sputtering in real in-line processing chambers, parallelization of the High Resolution Oceanographic Model of the Baltic Sea (HIROMB).