CENVAL-ARC homepage

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CENVAL-ARC holds its next symposium at UC Merced on March 4 and 5, 2027. Registration is open (You Are Invited!).
The page gives the program’s vision: lower the barriers to high-performance computing (HPC) for researchers and students in California’s Central Valley (Our Vision Statement).
NSF award 2346744 funds it. The page gives no hardware, cost or access rules.

CENVAL-ARC is the Central Valley Accessible Research and Computational Hub. UC Merced leads it with CSU Fresno, CSU Sacramento and CSU Stanislaus.

Symposium: “CENVAL-ARC Symposium 2027 – March 4th & 5th”. (page banner)
Sponsor: the symposium is “proudly sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC) program”. (You Are Invited!)
Audience: “faculty member, graduate student, or undergraduate researcher” who need “high-performance computing beyond personal laptops or local resources”. (Why Attend?)
Offer: “Access FREE Open Science Grid (OSG) resources—and keep using them at your home institution”. (What You’ll Gain)
Offer: “Connect with NSF program officers” and “Network with researchers across all career stages in computation throughout the Central Valley”. (What You’ll Gain)
Vision: CENVAL-ARC “aims to lower barriers to high-performance computing, drive innovation, and build an inclusive community for groundbreaking research”. (Our Vision Statement)
Funding: “CENVAL-ARC is supported by NSF under the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure CC* Regional Computing award No. 2346744”. (page footer)

The program’s own homepage on a UC Merced site. It is promotional text for an event.

The page does not list member campuses, users, nodes or GPUs.
It does not say how CSU users get accounts on the UC Merced cluster or what they pay.
The 2027 agenda and speakers are on other pages.