Energy-saving measures reduce MACC data center operating costs
Recent improvements allow the Michigan Academic Computing Center to consume less energy and reduce cost without compromising performance.
Tag Archives: ARC-TS
New research computing package for Michigan Medicine
Research labs and teams sometimes spend a large amount of sponsored grant funding on data storage and computing resources. Researchers often have to choose between data safety and saving money, resulting in decreased productivity, and time wasted on data recovery. Beginning March 5, 2018, Health Information Technology & Services (HITS), in partnership with Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services (ARC-TS),… Read More »
HPC training workshops Feb. 12–March 6
A series of training workshops in high performance computing will be held Feb. 12 through March 6, 2018, presented by CSCAR in conjunction with Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services (ARC-TS). Introduction to the Linux command Line This course will familiarize the student with the basics of accessing a–nd interacting with Linux computers using the GNU/Linux operating system’s Bash shell,… Read More »
Yottabyte now HIPAA-compliant
Computing platform Yottabyte Research Cloud (YBRC), offered through Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services (ARC-TS), is now HIPAA-compliant. YBRC and its associated services can accept restricted data, enabling secure data analysis on Windows and Linux virtual desktops as well as secure hosting of databases and data ingestion. The new capability ensures the security of restricted data through the… Read More »
U-M partners with Cavium on Big Data computing platform
A new partnership between the University of Michigan and Cavium Inc., a San Jose-based provider of semiconductor products, will create a powerful new Big Data computing cluster available to all U-M researchers. The $3.5 million ThunderX computing cluster will enable U-M researchers to, for example, process massive amounts of data generated by remote sensors in distributed manufacturing environments, or by… Read More »
ARC info session for grad students
Advanced Research Computing at U-M (ARC) will host an information session for graduate students in all disciplines who are interested in new computing and data science resources and services available to U-M researchers. Brief presentations from members of ARC Technology Services (ARC-TS) on computing infrastructure, and from Consulting for Statistics, Computing, and Analytics Research (CSCAR) on statistics, data… Read More »
New data science computing platform
An expanded data science computing platform from ARC-TS gives all U-M researchers new capabilities to host structured and unstructured databases, and to ingest, store, query, and analyze large datasets.
OSiRIS project featured in Puppet interview
Software company Puppet interviewed Benjeman Meekhof, ARC-TS high-performance computing storage administrator and lead engineer on the Open Storage Research Infrastructure (OSiRIS) project.
ARC-TS supports NIH pilot
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced the Commons Credit Pilot, which provides biomedical researchers support for access to cloud-based computing resources as part of the its Commons program. Researchers interested in requesting resources from the program can get support for their submissions from Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services (ARC-TS). NOTE: Researchers must hold an NIH… Read More »