Rutgers.eduAnnual Review 2020-2021
Supercomputers solve super complex problems
Need to analyze a trillion data points? Call OARC.
The Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC) is the go-to resource for Rutgers researchers and scholars facing complex computational problems like modeling the climate, analyzing protein structures, or exploring ancient music. OARC offers a world-class supercomputing envorinment, the Amarel system, and experts who can help researchers use it.
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New workshops and learning opportunities
In addition to OARC‘s standard research computing workshops and how-to sessions, new workshops have been added that highlight applications of artificial intelligence, geospatial information systems, and clinical informatics.
Hundreds of faculty, staff, and students from more than 130 departments (in-person or virtually) have attended OARC research computing workshops.
Amarel delivers research computing to revolutionize science, engineering, and scholarship
Amarel has been used to model everything from ocean tides to COVID-19’s spread to the Big Bang, and, as it continues to grow more powerful, its ability to perform analyses keeps increasing.
- 3,000+ students, researchers, and faculty work and learn on Amarel.
- Spans three Rutgers data centers (Piscataway, Newark, and Camden), producing a very large, diverse, yet unified compute, network, and storage system.
CPU core-hour usage is increasing dramatically year over year. The surge in Amarel core-hour usage is a testament to the power of the computing cluster and the trust that researchers have in OARC.
