From more@hpcwire.ans.net Mon Jun 28 08:56:57 1993 Received: from cray.com (timbuk) by garnet.cray.com (4.1/CRI-5.14) id AA25561; Mon, 28 Jun 93 08:56:57 CDT Received: from hpcwire.ans.net by cray.com (4.1/CRI-MX 2.19) id AA17607; Mon, 28 Jun 93 08:56:50 CDT Received: by hpcwire.ans.net id AA09519 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for msallen@garnet.cray.com); Mon, 28 Jun 1993 06:55:09 -0700 Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1993 06:55:09 -0700 From: More Select News Message-Id: <199306281355.AA09519@hpcwire.ans.net> To: msallen Subject: 1837 The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Status: OR The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) is a state-of-the-art supercomputer center located at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. The center was established as part of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program of the Department of Defense. Thirty percent of the supercomputer's time is dedicated to DOD research with the remaining time available to support academic and commercial users. ARSC supports mission- related use by federal agencies, projects with other universities, and commercial organizations. Our mission is to support environmental research and science with an emphasis on high latitudes and arctic. The ARSC supercomputer, with its advanced visualization capabilities and near-line massive data storage, makes this mission possible. Our Cray Y-MP is the largest-memory four- processor supercomputer in the world. The ARSC provides opportunities for Grand Challenge research in areas including ocean and atmospheric modeling, global climate change, environmental research, scientific visualization, massively parallel processing development, and long- distance high-speed networking. The University of Alaska Fairbanks has established itself globally as a center of Arctic science. THE CRAY Y-MP M98 SUPERCOMPUTER The ARSC operates a Cray Y-MP M98/41024 that has four processors capable of over a GFLOPS of peak performance. The supercomputer has 8.192 gigabytes of memory, 89 gigabytes of disk capacity, four-tape channel adapters supporting IBM-compatible tape controllers for either reel or cartridge tapes, and a 100-MB/sec communications channel. The Cray Y-MP M98 uses the Unix-based operating system Unicos. The ARSC supercomputer has twice the memory capacity of any supercomputer in the world and therefore provides scientists with new, exciting opportunities for research. THE CRAY T3D MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSOR SUPERCOMPUTER ARSC will acquire one of the first Cray T3D massively parallel processor (MPP) computers early in 1994. This MPP computer will have 128 processing elements, provide nearly 20 GFLOPS of peak performance, and have 2 gigabytes of global memory. Together the Cray Y-MP and Cray T3D will provide un-matched supercomputing capabilities. May 1993