What are we about?

The Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center (AHPCC) is about people, resources and activities that are …

… prototyping and deploying the most advanced computing systems as large systems for production research, including a 128 processor Linux Intel supercluster, Roadrunner, for NSF researchers and three other research superclusters for research, training support, and computational services. In the summer 2000, operation of a 512-processor Linux supercluster, LosLobos, begins for research production service to NSF academic researchers.

… developing and deploying computing science and technology that is accessible to researchers. The AHPCC is at the forefront in developing large scale clusters for production research, developing and deploying Access Grid (AG) technology for streaming video, audio and data across the Internet for collaboration, meetings, and training, and developing system schedulers for efficient utility of computing resources.

… employing computational sciences for applications ranging from mathematics to physics to biology to the engineering disciplines. The Center supports several research groups that include faculty researchers, staff and students. The AHPCC also supports the Maui High Performance Computing Center with specialized computational area and discipline support.

… conducting research in computational sciences techniques, system schedulers, software for visualization, as well as basic research in computational chemistry, physics, and visualization.

… educating and training faculty, students, staff, and researchers from industry and government in high performance computing including parallel programming, systems administration, cluster computing, and visualization. Over 100 workshops and courses have been conducted in the last five years. The Center is the administrative host for UNM’s Science and Engineering Computation Certificate program.

… reaching out to communities and making available high performance computing science and technology. A major initiative, in collaboration with the National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA), is to develop AG deployment to the Tribal Colleges in the Southwest.

… collaborating with non-traditional computing applications. The AHPCC is jointly working with the UNM School of Medicine to develop telemedicine technology and deploy it in the Southwest and in collaboration with the University of Hawaii, in the Hawaiian Islands, with the UNM College of Fine Arts to explore the role of computing technology in the arts, as well as on-going joint efforts with the UNM College of Arts and Sciences and the UNM School of Engineering.

… connecting with other universities. AHPCC is a member of the National Computational Sciences Alliance, a National Science Foundation consortium for advanced computing initiative, as a Partner for Advanced Computing Services and provides computing resources for grand challenge problems.

…and finally, AHPCC is all about research, education and service to academia, industry, government and community.