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Center History
A cronology of significant events and accomplishments for the center.
- 1993 Professors Gilfeather, Smith, and Sobolewski establish MHPCC (Maui High Performance Computing Center) under the DoD Modernization program.
- 1994 AHPCC (Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center) is established at UNM, along with HPCERC (High Performance Computing Education and Research Center), an umbrella organization spanning MHPCC and AHPCC.
- January 1999, Roadrunner, the first Linux cluster available through NSF allocation, is installed. Roadrunner was integrated by a small company in Sandy Utah named Alta Tech, today they are called Linux Networx.
- August 1999, Access Grid (AG) installed at UNM and the first AG session is hosted by UNM. This session was th first of a series of AG meetings that included sessions at Kentucky and Boston University.
- August 2000, Los Lobos "supercluster" installed at UNM. This is the first IBM Linux product ever built. During the inaguration IBM announces their Linux strategy for future product offerings. Los Lobos became the highest ranked Linux cluster in the subsequent Top 500 list (narrowly edging out the Sandia Cplant cluster). The Los Lobos ranking placed UNM in the top 5 universities for computing power on campus.
- January 2003, Marc Ingber becomes director. AHPCC becomes HPC@UNM.
- January 2004, Barney Macabe becomes director.
- December 2005, HPC@UNM opens a brand new, state of the art, 1500 sq ft machine room.
- January 2007, Tom Caudell becomes director.