Cray delivers first SV1exSeattle 17 April 2001 The first Cray SV1ex supercomputer at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC), University of Alaska Fairbanks. The system, part of a $3 million contract , replaces ARSC's Cray SV1 supercomputer.
ARSC's government and academic researchers will use the Cray SV1ex
supercomputer to study atmospheric, environmental and geophysical
problems unique to the Arctic, polar regions and higher latitudes. The
system's high-end performance, improved clock speed and extremely
high-speed cache memory will be especially beneficial to ARSC users
running applications in ocean modeling, climatology and space physics.
A research team led by Uma Bhatt, of the International Arctic
Research Center (IARC) Frontier Research System for Global Change,
will use ARSC's Cray SV1ex supercomputer to apply a global climate
model that simulates the atmospheric response to changes in sea ice
over the Arctic ocean. These simulations will help the team to
understand how shrinking sea ice affects the atmosphere. While
researchers traditionally study the tropics for clues to the origin of
global weather patterns, this project is one of the first to
investigate how changes in the Arctic may influence world climate.
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