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.

References

External links

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