ADVANCED COMPUTING

Advanced Computing at the New Mexico Consortium (NMC) enables cutting-edge research, collaboration, and workforce development by providing access to high-performance computing (HPC), data-intensive resources, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies such as quantum computing. Through strategic partnerships with universities, national laboratories, and industry, NMC advances computational capabilities that support scientific discovery, innovation, and regional and national research priorities.

NMC plays a central role in bringing together universities, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and industry partners to strengthen advanced computing across New Mexico and beyond. We work to foster collaborative research environments, coordinate shared infrastructure efforts, and support regional strategies for sustainable computing resources.

Our collaboration efforts include:

• Connecting academic, laboratory, and industry partners
• Working toward shared and regional compute resources
• Supporting university-led computing initiatives and research programs

Education and training are core to NMC’s advanced computing mission. We support the development of a skilled, future-ready workforce by expanding access to high-performance computing education and hands-on research experiences.

Key activities include:

• Support for HPC education and outreach
• Summer student research and training opportunities
• Engagement with students at multiple career stages to build computational expertise

NMC is a founding member of the New Mexico Artificial Intelligence Consortium (NMAIC), a statewide effort to advance AI research, education, and infrastructure.

Through the NMAIC, NMC helps:

• Provide educational opportunities in artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Build a collaborative AI community across institutions
• Work toward regional access to AI and computing resources that support research and workforce development

NMC supports the growing quantum computing ecosystem by enabling access, collaboration, and education in this rapidly evolving field. We work closely with LANL, academic partners, and industry to expand engagement and hands-on experience with quantum technologies.

Our quantum computing activities include:

• Quantum cloud access for research and experimentation
• Support for LANL-led quantum initiatives
• Education and community outreach
• Hosting quantum ℏackathons and training events
• Vendor and industry collaboration
• Oppenheimer.dev, supporting community engagement and development in advanced computing and quantum technologies

NMC provides critical data center and HPC infrastructure to support research, experimentation, and student engagement. These resources enable testing, prototyping, and computational research across a wide range of scientific domains.

Capabilities include:

• Infrastructure to support computing testbeds
• HPC resources for research projects
• Access for students and early-career researchers to advanced computing environments

The Ultrascale Systems Research Center (USRC) is a collaboration between the NMC and LANL to engage universities and industry nationally in support of high performance computing research. USRC investigates the challenges of computing at extreme scales. The key focus areas of the USRC are storage, networking, resilience, system software, and machine learning.

USRC focuses on the challenges of computing at extreme scales, with key research areas including:

• Storage
• Networking
• System resilience
• System software
• Machine learning

NMC’s IT team provides essential operational support to ensure secure, reliable, and effective computing environments across the organization.

IT services include:

• General NMC IT support
• Computer and laptop provisioning
• Data management and storage
• Cybersecurity and systems support