Shaun Baker isn't your usual kind of Alaska tourist. The West Point Military Academy cadet arrived in Fairbanks last week to spend three weeks learning about supercomputing in an academic environment.
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Baker will be working with ARSC as part of a coordinated effort by the Department of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program to increase collaboration between military and academic research units.
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The cadet will work with ARSC staff on a project to investigate portable high-density storage formats. Balancing the formats in which data is stored with the ability to move that data quickly and accurately is an extremely important part of supercomputing. Researchers at ARSC must be able to move and read the huge amounts of data they produce when using a supercomputer.
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This is the second summer ARSC has hosted West Point cadets since ARSC joined the program two years ago.
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