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Arctic High-Performance Computing for Climate Research

Explore the cutting-edge scientific capabilities enabled by ARSC's state-of-the-art supercomputers and petascale storage infrastructure. Conduct research on Arctic climate, weather, oceans, and ecosystems through innovative computational modeling. Support from NSF grants and university scientists. Discover the power of high-performance computing in predicting climate patterns. Collaborate with Arctic researchers to address environmental challenges.

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Arctic High-Performance Computing for Climate Research

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  1. Scientific discovery, analysis, and prediction made possible through high performance computing.

  2. State of the art supercomputers with 24/7 accessibility • Petascale storage infrastructure provides backup, swift access, and retrieval of archived data • Emphasis on the Arctic • ARSC supports university scientists who use high-performance computing (HPC) to conduct research • Climate and weather modeling, ice sheet modeling, oceans physical and ecological systems

  3. HPC at ARSC • Pacman • Penguin Computing cluster • 2,816 AMD Opteron processors • NSF infrastructure grant to support Pacific Area Climate Monitoring and Analysis Network: PACMAN • Researchers in Alaska and Hawaii • Fish • Cray XK6m-200 Supercomputer • 1152 AMD Opteron CPU cores and 48 NVIDIA Tesla GPU processors • Art work by UAF student Yumi Kawaguchi

  4. Long Term Storage Silo • 1,800 3592JC tape cartridges with 7.2 petabytes of raw capacity equal to…7,200,000,000,000,000 bytes! • 400 LTO-4 tape cartridges • with 320 terabytes • of raw capacity. IBM TS3500 Tape Library, “Galaga”

  5. Arctic Collaborative Environment (ACE) • ACE provides a web-based, open-access, Arctic-focused, environmental research and decision-support system • ACE enables local, regional, and international cooperation and coordination on long-term environmental planning and near-term actions in response to climatic and environmental changes occurring in the Arctic Region

  6. Computational Science & Resources • Tsunamis • Bering Sea ecosystems • Melting sea ice and ice sheets • Volcanic ash dispersion • Smoke forecasting from wildfires • Arctic Alaska-specific weather forecasts • DSpace archive file hosting • Arctic Collaborative Environment • DIG: Frontier Scientists

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