Research Computing News

NASA concept illustration of WFIRST instrument

Arizona High Performance Computing in the News

UITS Research Technologies has been featured in two very different arenas recently—one in scientific papers on running simulations for NASA's next space telescope and one in an interview on the journey to an HPC career.

green alga, female cones of Gnetum gnemon, and a cherry blossom

Researchers "Light Up" the Plant Tree of Life

In the largest plant genome project to date, an international consortium of researchers generated gene sequences from more than 1,100 species, providing a framework for 1 billion years of green plant evolution. The data are available in the CyVerse Data Commons.

Hubbel Space Telescope image of Abell 370 galaxy cluster

Virtual 'Universe Machine' Sheds Light on Galaxy Evolution

By creating millions of virtual universes and comparing them to observations of actual galaxies, a UA-led research team has made discoveries that present a powerful new approach for studying galaxy formation.

Alec Scott, a student worker in the RDC, replacing hardware in the El Gato system

High Performance Computing Updates Mean More Compute Time for Researchers

UA’s free HPC resources are popular and demand is increasing. Researchers from a broad spectrum of disciplines are exploring new areas such as machine learning and deep learning. The UITS Research Technologies group has been working to meet this new demand head on.