Arctic Region Supercomputing Center

The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) was from 1993 to 2015 a research facility organized under the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF).

In general, the research supported with ARSC resources focused on the Earth's arctic region.

ARSC hosted a variety of HPC systems many of which were listed as among the Top 500 most powerful in the world.

[1] Funding for ARSC operations was primarily supplied by the DoD HPCMP, with augmentation through UAF and external grants and contracts from various sources such as the National Science Foundation.

In December 2010, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported probable layoffs for most of Arctic Region Supercomputer Center's 46 employees with the loss of its Department of Defense contract in 2011.

C.T. Elvey Building, former location of ARSC