"With technology, talent and capital now available globally, the U.S. is facing unprecedented economic competition from abroad. The country that wants to out compete must out-compute."  Deborah Wince-Smith, President of the Council on Competitiveness, 2004.

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Introduction

Beyond its importance in economic development, computation is rapidly becoming a critical tool for conducting research, scholarship and creative activity in all academic disciplines. The mission of the UNM Center for High Performance Computing (HPC@UNM) is to support faculty led, computing based, research throughout the University of New Mexico. Our goal is to provide the infrastructure and facilities needed to continue the growth of computing based research at UNM. We strive to foster new, interdisciplinary collaborations, based on computation and to encourage novel applications of computation in research while continuing to grow traditional applications of computing in the science and engineering disciplines.

The center is directed by Thomas Caudell, Tim Thomas serves as the Deputy Director.  More information about the staff in the center is available on the staff page.

The center was established in 1994 as a sister center to the Maui High Performance Computing Center which was, at the time, run by Frank Gilfeather, John Sobolewski and Brian Smith from the University of New Mexico.  In its short history, the UNM Center has enjoyed a number of fairly significant firsts, including: the first Linux cluster available through NSF allocation and the first use of Access Grid technology.  For more history, see the history page.

The center serves as the academic unit in charge of the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Certificate program, a graduate degree certificate.  Andrea Mammoli from the Mechanical Engineering Department and Tom Hagstrom from the Mathematics department serve as the coordinators for this program.  For more information about the CSE program, see the CSE page.

The UNM research community is making extensive use of computing in their research activities.  The ARTS (Art, Research, Technology, and Science) Lab represents an exciting confluence of art and technology with an emphasis on computation.  ARTS Lab was created in response to New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson's Media Industries Strategic Plan (MISP).  For more information on research activities involving computation, see our research page.