About AHPCC
- The Albuquerque High Performance
Computing Center (AHPCC) is part of the High Performance Computing Education
& Research Center (HPCERC)-a strategic center of the University of New
Mexico (UNM). Together with its sister center-the Maui High Performance Computing
Center (MHPCC)-AHPCC provides high performance computing resources to researchers
throughout the U.S., as well as serving research and education needs within
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mission at the Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center is to advance
high performance computing, its applications, and its deployment through computing
science and technology, computational science, research, education, outreach
and training.
Currently ranked among the top five
academic supercomputing installations in the country, AHPCC maintains an extensive
array of supercomputing resources, including four Linux superclusters, a 32-node
IBM SP3, and an advanced visualization laboratory. The largest of the superclusters-LosLobos-is
a 256-node, dual-processor Pentium III/733 MHz SMP machine, with a high-bandwidth,
low-latency Myrinet network for fast interprocessor communication. LosLobos
is managed by AHPCC through a partnership with the National Computational Science
Alliance (NCSA), and is supported through the Alliance by the National Science
Foundation.
- Computing time on LosLobos is
available to academic researchers through a competitive grant application
process. The SP3, along with an 8-node/4-way SMP (32 processor) Linux cluster,
was awarded to AHPCC as part of an IBM Shared University Research (SUR) grant
for investigating the use of hybrid technology systems (hyperclusters) in
advanced computational and visualization research. The Visualization Laboratory
includes several Silicon Graphics multi-pipe machines, as well as specialized
hardware (IBM Scalable Graphics Engine) for conducting research on parallel
rendering using the SUR hypercluster.
The Center itself consists of systems
and administrative staff, several full-time senior research scientists, and
over 50 undergraduate and graduate research assistants and postdoctoral fellows.
Twenty-three associated faculty conduct their research in collaboration with
AHPCC, and several major research initiatives are presently underway in conjunction
with the UNM School of Medicine and the UNM School of Fine Arts/Arts Technology
Center. Major research areas include:
- Computational Science (Chemistry,
Physics, Materials Science, Biology/Genomics, Fluid Dynamics, Mechanics)
- Scientific Visualization and Virtual
Reality
- High Performance Algorithms and
Numerical Mathematics
- Computer Systems Research-Superclusters
and High Performance Communications
- Access Grid and Virtual Machine
Room Technologies
- Telemedicine and Collaborative
Environments
- Educational Technologies
Through HPCERC, AHPCC maintains close
ties with the Maui High Performance Computing Center, participating in technical
exchanges, workshops, research collaborations, and providing access to diverse
supercomputing resources. MHPCC is managed by UNM/HPCERC for the Department
of Defense (DoD) as a Shared Resource Center for the DoD High Performance Computing
Modernization Program.
For more information about AHPCC,
our programs, research, or to submit a request for supercomputing resources,
please visit us at: http://www.ahpcc.unm.edu.
Map & Directions
From Airport to
AHPCC:
Head North on Yale Ave. out of Airport.
Turn Left (West) onto Girard.
Turn Right (North) onto University.
Go three miles to Central Ave.
Turn left onto Central Ave.
(Note: You will be looking at AHPCC.
Park in the rear of the building. Ask receptionist for a parking permit.)
From North I-25:
Head south through the "Big-I."
Turn left (East) onto Central Ave.
Turn left into AHPCC's parking lot.
From South I-25:
Head north.
Exit onto Central Ave.
Turn right (east) onto Central
Turn left into AHPCC's parking lot.
From I-40:
Go South onto I-25
Head south through the "Big-I."
Turn left (east) onto Central Ave.
Turn left into AHPCC's parking lot.
