Arctic Region Supercomputing Center

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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.

[edit] 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.^[1]
• Iceberg — 800-processor IBM System, 5 TFLOPS

[edit] References

[edit] External Links

• Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
• Future of Science and Technology in Alaska

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