# News

Announcements and stories from the CARC community.

* [Welcome our new CARC Director, Tyson Swetnam](welcome-director-swetnam.md) - The Center for Advanced Research Computing welcomes its new Director.
* [Recent departures and retirements](departures-retirements.md) - Thanking Patrick Bridges and Hussein Al-Azzawi, and wishing Jim Prewett a happy retirement.
* [In memoriam: Cleve Moler](cleve-moler-memoriam.md) - Remembering the creator of MATLAB and former UNM professor, by Matthew Fricke.
* [New NSF award: IDSS MESA](nsf-idss-mesa.md) - A new National Science Foundation award supports the IDSS MESA project.
* [New NSF research hardware award](nsf-hardware-ruskai.md) - A new NSF award led by Ruskai brings new research computing hardware to UNM.
* [PSAAP COMPASS center: 2026 update](psaap-2026-update.md) - 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](https://carc.unm.edu/news--events/News/index.html) of
carc.unm.edu.

### 2026

* [Registration is open for the 2026 CARC Annual Meeting](2026-annual-meeting.md) - CAM 2026 came to Zimmerman Library B30 on April 21, 2026.
* [UNM launches search for the next director of CARC](director-search.md) - The concluded search for the center's strategic and operational leader.

### 2025

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

### 2024

* [CARC team gears up for SC24 Competition](sc24-team.md) - Six UNM students take an H100 cluster to the SC24 student competition.
* [New HPC course bridges the gap between students and local tech industry](hpc-course.md) - CS491/591 gives students hands-on cluster experience.

### Earlier

* [Genome sequencing reveals a newly identified virus](genome-sequencing.md) - CARC computing behind the characterization of a new virus.
* [Undergraduate researcher leverages CARC for molecular modeling breakthrough](molecular-modeling.md) - A senior thesis introduces radial density encoding.