UALR Gets Grant For Supercomputer
by September 4, 2014 6:48 pm 96 views
UALR will purchase supercomputing data storage technology 10 times larger than its current latest system using a $291,908 grant from the National Science Foundation, the university reported today in a press release.
The three-year grant will help UALR’s Computational Research Center (CRC) buy a peta-scale data storage system that will expand the supercomputers the university already has. The release said the system will be the “first at this scale for higher education and research in Arkansas.”
Supercomputers can perform multi-quadrillions operations per second. The system will support research projects throughout Arkansas, including the bioinformatics program offered jointly through UALR and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
The Computer Science Department at UALR has received five National Science Foundation grants in the last 12 months.