[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“Dell has been tapped by the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, to provide more than 1,450 servers that will
perform computations and data analysis for researchers across the
U.S. to better understand major scientific and engineering
questions of the 21st century. Research conducted on NCSA systems
includes: studying the evolution, size and structure of the
universe; investigating theories on the lifecycle of stars like the
sun; modeling severe storms; studying the human genome and
biological processes; advancing the drug design process and
more.“The Dell PowerEdge servers will be linked to form a
high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) with a theoretical peak
performance of 17.7 trillion floating point operations per second
(TFLOPS). Such performance capabilities would rank this cluster as
the world’s third most powerful system on the Top 500 List of
supercomputers and will increase NCSA’s total computing power to
close to 24 TFLOPS…”