News

Drs. Mateescu and McClure join ARC

May 1, 2012

In the last week, ARC has added two new Computational Scientists, Dr. Gabriel Mateescu and Dr. James McClure, increasing ARC's total staff size to six, increasing ARC's capacity for both user support and training and research collaboration. You can read more about these new hires and other ARC staff on our Personnel page.

HokieOne, New Shared-Memory Machine

April 16, 2012

Today ARC launches a new shared-memory machine, HokieOne. The system is roughly twice the combined size of ARC's previous shared-memory machines, Inferno and Cauldron, which are scheduled for retirement on or about June 1. For more information, click here.

Spring 2012 MATLAB FDI Course

March 8, 2012

In April, the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Mathematics (ICAM) and ARC will offer a two-session short course on Parallel Computing with MATLAB through the Virginia Tech Faculty Development Institute (FDI). The course will be taught by Dr. Eugene Cliff of ICAM and Justin Krometis of ARC. Users can enroll through FDI here. For more information, click here.

ARC Launches New Website

February 7, 2012

ARC debuts a new website today, designed to better facilitate the use of research and visual computing clusters by faculty and students through the provision of more complete and easier-to-access system documentation and interactive forms. For more information, click here.

Spring 2012 FDI Courses

January 5, 2012

In February and March, ARC will offer three two-session short courses through the Virginia Tech Faculty Development Institute (FDI). These courses will be taught by Dr. Byoung-Do Kim, Justin Krometis, and Dr. Nicholas Polys and held on Tuesday afternoons from 3:00-4:45 in Torgersen 3080. Users can enroll through FDI here. For more information, click here.

Dr. Byoung-Do Kim joins ARC

October 16, 2011

Byoung-Do Kim, Ph.D. will join ARC as Deputy Director of High Performance Computing, leading ARC's efforts in cross-disciplinary computational science support. Dr. Kim has worked in the areas of computational science and high performance computing for over 10 years. For more information on Dr. Kim, click here.

About ARC

Advanced Research Computing at Virginia Tech is a unit within the Office of the Vice President of Information Technology devoted to maintaining, advancing, and providing support to large-scale research computing systems in the university.