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FAIRBANKS, Alaska. -- The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC)
announces
the awarding of $133,333 from the Cray Research University Research &
Development
Grant Program. Six research groups affiliated with ARSC were awarded these
competitive
grants. Their research is on such Arctic topics as ocean and ice modeling,
global
climate modeling, weather forecasting, and enhanced topographic products
from synthetatic
aperture radar data. All utilize the ARSC CRAY T3E supercomputer that
arrived in
Fairbanks February 1997.
Cray Research Inc. sponsors this grant program to encourage research and
development
in computational science and engineering, and the development of software
for supercomputer
systems thereby providing programming solutions to real-world problems for
Cray systems.
The University Research & Development Grant Program also serves to
complement
the internal research efforts of Cray Research in selected areas of
hardware and
software development.
Three of the six awards granted to ARSC are to researchers at the
University of Alaska
Fairbanks (UAF) at the Geophysical Institute and Institute of Marine
Science. The
other awards went to scientists at the Naval Postgraduate School,
University of Montana,
and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. Awards ranged
from $15,500
to $30,000. These research projects utilize the latest high performance
computing
hardware located at ARSC - the 88 processor CRAY T3E supercomputer. The
ARSC systems
are among the fastest computers in the world.
Located at UAF, the mission of ARSC continues to support computational
research,
science, and engineering - with emphasis on the high latitudes and the
Arctic. ARSC
provides scalar-vector and massively parallel processing (MPP) resources -
high-performance
computing, networking facilities, training, and technical support - to
federal and
state agencies, the academic community, and commercial affiliates.
1997 Cray University Research & Development
Grant Recipients from ARSC.
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
PO Box 756020, Fairbanks, AK 99775 | voice: 907-450.8600 |
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