The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Arkansas at Little Rock a $291,908 grant for the purchase of a high-performance data storage system that will be a first at this scale for higher education and research in Arkansas. The three-year grant will help UALR’s Computational Research Center (CRC) acquire a petascale data storage system to expand on the supercomputers already available there. “To put this in perspective, the new system will be 10 times larger than the latest system we currently own,” according to Dr. Kenji Yoshigoe, principal investigator and director of the CRC. Supercomputers are capable of performing as much as multi-quadrillions operations per second. They can be used for simulation, data mining, and visualization to solve various scientific problems not possible by theoretical and experimental approaches, Yoshigoe said. To read further, please visit http://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/university-arkansas-receives-nsf-grant/.