Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
- Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) is a research facility organized under the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It is funded by the United States Department of Defense, and is a member of the department's High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP). The center was founded in 1993, and serves a wide variety of computational needs for both the University of Alaska and the Department of Defense.
The center produces a newsletter, "Currents," and an annual magazine, "Challenges in Science and Engineering".
Hardware
The center comprises these computers, located in the Butrovich Building, named:
* Midnight — 2312-processor Sun Opteron Cluster, with 6 Thumper (Sun Fire X4500) nodes forming a Lustre filesystem. [cite web
url = https://hpc.sun.com/blog/richbruecknersuncom/consortium-video-arscs-new-x8664-supercomputer
title = Consortium Video: ARSC's New x86_64 Supercomputer
accessdate = 2008-01-07
publisher = Sun Microsystems]
References
External links
* [http://www.arsc.edu/ Arctic Region Supercomputing Center]
* [http://www.aaas.org/spp/cstc/pne/pubs/regrep/alaska/universities.htm Future of Science and Technology in Alaska]
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