23 SERVICE SPOTLIGHT HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING Information Technology Services T he University of Kentucky has been a leader in High Performance Computing (HPC) for scientific research and teaching since 1987, and its supercomputers have ranked as high as #66 on the world- wide Top 500 list supercomputers list. These facilities are available to the faculty at UK and to research institutions throughout the state. S ince 2016, ITS Research Computing in partnership with the Center for Computational Sciences (CCS), has drastically increased the amount of computational, storage, and network resources used for research. Now boasting nearly 500 TFLOPs of computational performance, multi-petabyte scale storage, and high speed networking, HPC at the University of Kentucky has never been better equipped to support advancement in research and academic exploration. T hese HPC resources, hosted on the UK campus, are open to regional researchers and available to national research collaborators. Active research areas include physics, astronomy, biochemistry, business, pharmacy, medicine, mechanical engineering, and many others. The University also participates in networks of research supercomputers and collaborates with researchers across the country and around the world. In the last two years we have seen tremendous growth in computational data Sciences across multiple disciplines from Healthcare to linguistics, business and agriculture. High performance computing is no longer limited to computational chemistry and physics. Big data analytics and machine learning is empowering new research areas. - Anthony Elam Center for Computational Sciences “ “