UC-HiPACC

The University of California High-Performance AstroComputing Center (UC-HiPACC), based at the University of California at Santa Cruz, is consortium of nine University of California campuses and three Department of Energy laboratories (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory). Together, these entities comprise what is easily the largest and most powerful computational astrophysics faculty in the world—at a key moment when astro-simulations are just now reaching their full power to explain and interpret the universe. 

The mission of UC-HiPACC is to realize the full potential of these world-class resources by fostering collaborations among astronomers, computational astrophysicists, computer scientists, computer hardware engineers, and the builders and users of UC telescopes across the entire University of California system—doing so with an expenditure of funds that is modest compared to UC's already huge investments.