LinuxElectrons: St. Jude Prescribes Linux SuperComputer | Linux Today

LinuxElectrons: St. Jude Prescribes Linux SuperComputer

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 24, 2003

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“St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has joined the ranks of
world-class supercomputer users around the world with the
installation of an IBM computer system that can perform more than
600 billion operations per second.

“The supercomputer, an IBM eServer BladeCenter, which is
equivalent to 280 servers working at once, puts St. Jude in 251st
place among the top 500 supercomputer users in the world, according
to Clayton W. Naeve, Ph.D., chief research information officer and
director of the St. Jude Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics and
Biotechnology.

“St. Jude is the only children’s hospital to make the list,
which is compiled twice annually by supercomputing experts from the
University of Aannheim, Germany, the University of Tennessee, and
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory…”


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