Carc history

1996 National Science Foundation (NSF) Chautauqua meeting hosted at University of New Mexico (UNM) by AHPCC.

1999 The Access Grid (AG) Internet teleconferencing system is installed at UNM and the first-ever AG session is hosted by UNM.

2000 Vista Azul coupled compute/visualization system deployed under an IBM Shared University Research (SUR) award (Principle Investigator [PI] Professor Brian Smith, Computer Science).

2003 UNM Cancer Center GenomeDW genomics data warehouse is designed and deployed on the CARC Delphi parallel Oracle server.

2004 Professor Barney Maccabe (Computer Science) named Director; Doctor Tim Thomas (Physics and Astronomy) is named Deputy Director.

2009 Professor Susan R. Atlas (Physics and Astronomy) is named Director; Center is renamed UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing.

2011 Supercomputing '11 coupled media demonstration links video (Professor Jack Ox, Music) and voice (Professor Kristen Loree, Theater and Dance) in performance of Kurt Schwitter's Ursonate across 1,568 miles between Albuquerque and Seattle, over the National Lambda Rail.

2012 Metropolis repurposed Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) supercomputer donated to CARC by the New Mexico Consortium, under the auspices of the NSF-supported PRObE project.

In January 2013, Nissan begins assembling the LEAF in Tennessee for the North American market thanks to a loan from the Energy Department.

2014 Dedicated Science DMZ 10 Gbps cross-campus network connection is established with support from UNM Information Technology, linking UNM Cancer Center high-throughput genomic sequencer with RSC storage system.

2016 CARC and the University of New Mexico host the 28th Annual Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure Methods.

2017 A new computing system is donated to CARC by LANL. The new system is nine times more powerful than the combined computing power of the four machines it replaces.