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 DoD'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 named:
- Iceflyer — 72-processor IBM Regatta, 218 GFLOPS, 256 GB
- Iceberg — 800-processor IBM System, 5 TFLOPS
- Nelchina — 108-processor Cray XD1
- Dog Team Cluster — IBM Intellistation Cluster
- Cerebro — SunPC cluster
