The High Performance Computing Education & Research Center (HPCERC) is a multi-disciplinary center established in 1994 which focuses on the University of New Mexico (UNM) efforts in education and training, research and research support, in high performance computing and education. The University recognized the needs of academic, government, and business communities in vital technology and established the Center to perform several missions:

Initiate and coordinate education and research programs in high performance computing (HPC).

Provide students and faculty with access to resources

Facilitate the introduction and application of HPC to industry and government through training, education and research projects.

Faculty associates, staff, and students, totaling over 100 persons, are part of a unique center to bring high performance computing to the communities. HPCERC has initiated several exciting, highly successful projects that are at the leading edge in HPC education and research.

The Center developed and now operates, under a cooperative agreement with the United States Air Force Phillips Laboratory, the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii. MHPCC has among the top 20 most powerful supercomputers in the world, and is the DoD's largest supercomputer facility, provides leading edge computational power to over 1,000 government, academic, and industry users.

HPCERC established the Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center (AHPCC) to serve as the Center in cooperation with academic department, for HPC education and research activities at UNM and to support development efforts at MHPCC.

The HPCERC also hosts the UNM Scientific and Engineering Computation (SEC) Certificate Program. This program, administered though ten academic departments, supports and trains students in computational disciplines ranging from computational fluid dynamics to computational biology.

High Performance Computing is critical to ensure technological and industrial leadership. HPCERC is establishing, though its institutions, an international reputation as an innovator and leader.

The AHPCC specializes in user support and training development. The Center's High Performance Computing & Visualization Laboratory includes a 32-node IBM SP1, SGI scientific visualization workstations, data storage, terminals, and other specialized equipment. Faculty and students also use the resources of the Maui High Performance Computing Center. The AHPCC provides research applications support to the Maui Center with research and training. The Center supports interest groups in visualization, computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, and computational biology that are comprised of prominent researchers from government, industry and academia.

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