The IDRE mission is to support, advance and guide campus-wide efforts to position UCLA as a world leader in research and education in computational thinking, using high performance computation, data visualization and data analysis of large data sets and databases. IDRE supports research and innovative scholarship that takes advantage of new technologies and encourages collaboration between faculty from different departments and disciplines at UCLA, the opening of new research questions, and the enrichment of the learning environment.

IDRE resources, projects and services are defined by five key programs:

Advanced Computation and Storage

GPU/Many Core

Pipeline Program

Statistical Computing / Data Informatics

GIS, Visualization and Modeling