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.
Remembering Cleve Moler - Matthew Fricke remembers the creator of MATLAB, former UNM Computer Science chair, and a giant of high-performance computing (1939–2026).
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.