The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) is an educational program affiliated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, run by Director Frank Williams and funded by the University of Alaska system as well as the United States Department of Defense. It is the northernmost supercomputer cluster in the world. The University of Alaska Fairbanks is the Fairbanks branch and flagship institution of the University of Alaska System, and is abbreviated as UAF. UAF is a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant institution, as well as the site at which the Alaska State Constitution was signed. ... The University of Alaska is a Land-Grant, Sea-Grant, and Space Grant university founded in 1922 in Fairbanks, Alaska. ... The United States Department of Defense, abbreviated DoD or DOD and sometimes called the Defense Department, is a civilian Cabinet organization of the United States government. ... A supercomputer is a computer that leads the world in terms of processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation, at the time of its introduction. ... Linux Cluster at Purdue University. ...

Established in 1993 as part of the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program, the center recieved $235.5 million this year in funding, of which $13 million went to the center itself for equipment and personnel; the rest is allocated in grants and scholarships. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

The ARSC is the United States government's leading facility for study into global warming. Global mean surface temperatures 1856 to 2005 Mean temperature anomalies during the period 1995 to 2004 with respect to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 Global warming is an observed increase in the average temperature of the Earths atmosphere and oceans. ...

The center comprises these computers, all named:

1. Klondike -- 128-processor Cray X1, 1.6 TFLOPS peak system performance, 512 GB of main memory
2. Iceflyer -- 32-processor IBM Regatta, 218 GFLOP, 256 GB
3. Iceberg -- 800-processor IBM System, 5 TFLOPS
4. Nelchina -- 36-processor Cray XD1
5. Dog Team Cluster -- IBM Intellistation Cluster
6. Cerebro -- SunPC cluster

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Sources

• [1] Future of Science and Technology in Alaska
• [2] Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
• [3] University of Alaska FY06 budget including the ARSC
• [4] Film produced by the center explaining Global Warming Studies