News

Announcements and stories from the CARC community.

• Welcome our new CARC Director, Tyson Swetnam - The Center for Advanced Research Computing welcomes its new Director.
• Recent departures and retirements - Thanking Patrick Bridges and Hussein Al-Azzawi, and wishing Jim Prewett a happy retirement.
• In memoriam: Cleve Moler - Remembering the creator of MATLAB and former UNM professor, by Matthew Fricke.
• New NSF award: IDSS MESA - A new National Science Foundation award supports the IDSS MESA project.
• New NSF research hardware award - A new NSF award led by Ruskai brings new research computing hardware to UNM.
• PSAAP COMPASS center: 2026 update - An update on the DOE NNSA PSAAP IV COMPASS center led by UNM.

Archive

Older stories, by year. Stories from the previous website remain on the news archive of carc.unm.edu.

2026

• Registration is open for the 2026 CARC Annual Meeting - CAM 2026 came to Zimmerman Library B30 on April 21, 2026.
• UNM launches search for the next director of CARC - The concluded search for the center’s strategic and operational leader.

2025

• UNM awarded prestigious grant to lead national research on HPC - A DOE NNSA PSAAP IV award establishes the COMPASS center at CARC.
• CARC prepares for deployment of new HPC cluster - Easley brings H100 GPUs, all-flash storage, and a 7–10× performance leap.
• Registration is open for the 2025 CARC Annual Meeting - CARC’s fourth annual user meeting, April 14, 2025.
• An important message from our Director - On federal executive actions and CARC’s commitments to its community.

2024

• CARC team gears up for SC24 Competition - Six UNM students take an H100 cluster to the SC24 student competition.
• New HPC course bridges the gap between students and local tech industry - CS491/591 gives students hands-on cluster experience.

Earlier

• Genome sequencing reveals a newly identified virus - CARC computing behind the characterization of a new virus.
• Undergraduate researcher leverages CARC for molecular modeling breakthrough - A senior thesis introduces radial density encoding.