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Computing

At this time, ARSC's largest high-performance computer system is "midnight," a 12 teraflop Sun cluster comprised of AMD Opteron processors. ARSC resources also include a StorageTek SL8500 robotic tape library capable of storing over three petabytes of data and an extensive suite of software packages and tools to support our user community.

Computational Resources

Midnight -- 2312-processor Sun Opteron Cluster

Iceberg -- 800-processor IBM System

Storage Resources

Sun Storage Servers

StorageTek robotic tape library

Visualization

The center operates an MD Flying Flex™ immersive three-dimensional virtual reality studio, available to students and researchers in ARSC's Discovery Lab (located in the Rasmuson Library on the UAF campus). ARSC provides Apple Macintosh dual-processor G5 computers in the UAF Mac Lab, located in the Gruening building. These systems run a variety of high-end visualization software for training and educational purposes. ARSC maintains an access lab for use by faculty, affiliated researchers and students as well as a training lab. These labs are located on the UAF campus in the Duckering and West Ridge Research Buildings, respectively. They are equipped with Sun Linux workstations. ARSC also maintains an Access Grid Node to facilitate real-time collaborations.

Visualization Resources

Discovery Lab

Linux Workstations

People

ARSC consultants and specialists provide direct assistance to ARSC users. Consultants give training and support to any user by phone, email, and on-site, as needed, while specialists provide expertise in specialized areas, such as massively parallel programming and code migration and optimization.

ARSC's relationship with the University of Alaska facilitates collaborative research opportunities for academic and government scientists. Areas of research include ice, ocean and atmospheric coupled modeling; regional climate modeling; global climate change; permafrost, hydrology and arctic engineering; magnetospheric, ionospheric and upper atmospheric physics; volcanology and geology; petroleum and mineral engineering; genomics and proteomics; and arctic biology. ARSC actively participates in a joint-faculty program supporting University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) researchers in several departments across campus.

Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
PO Box 756020, Fairbanks, AK 99775 | voice: 907-450-8600 | email: