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February 4, 2015 - Karen Wentworth

Students at the University of New Mexico will soon be able to access the kind of supercomputing power that researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory once used for the most complex calculations on the planet.

Sure, it’s a decommissioned supercomputer housed in a one-time car dealership on the old Route 66 through Albuquerque, but it’s also the chance of a lifetime for a student with a complex research project.

As the expanded cooling, power conditioning and electrical systems are installed in the state-of-the-art machine room and former service repair bay, and the last of the hoists and cranes are gone, the UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC) will be ready to complete the commissioning of the 13-rack Ulam supercomputer.

Ulam is named for Stanislaw Ulam, a renowned Polish mathematician who worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos and co-invented the widely-used Monte Carlo method of computation.

Xena, a high-end graphics processing unit (GPU)-enabled supercomputing cluster funded by the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI), will also come online in the upgraded and expanded machine room.

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