Purdue University Chooses Dell for Campus Supercomputer
Biggest High-Performance Computing Cluster on a Big 10®
Campus Built in Half a Day
ROUND ROCK, Texas (Business Wire EON) May 6, 2008 --
The Purdue University Boilermakers celebrated another championship
yesterday with the installation of a new high-performance computing
cluster (HPCC) from Dell that is the largest on campus at any school in
the Big 10 Conference® outside of national
computing centers.
More than 200 university employees participated in the process of
building the HPCC in just half a day, designated as “Installation
Day,” from its arrival on campus through
racking and loading the software to bring the systems online. To see a
video of installation day, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQxUCNfD_pc.
The new HPCC will be used for research across a variety of disciplines,
including engineering, biological and earth and atmospheric sciences,
mathematics and physics. The leading researchers at Purdue pooled their
grants and provided a majority of the funding for the cluster, which is
housed at Purdue’s Mathematics Building on
campus.
The Purdue supercomputer consists of 812 Dell PowerEdge 1950 dual
quad-core computer nodes and is predicted to have a peak performance of
more than 60 teraflops, which means it could perform more than 60
trillion operations in one second.
“This new supercomputer will enhance Purdue’s
research capabilities and support our efforts to make significant
advances in a variety of areas, from designing new drugs and materials
to learning the structures of disease-causing viruses,”
said Gerry McCartney, vice president for information technology and
chief information officer, Purdue University. “The
Dell servers will be used for research by scientists and engineers from
across campus.”
“Purdue is a wonderful example of a
university investing in the technology tools it needs to conduct
leading-edge research,” said John Mullen,
Dell vice president of higher education. “High-performance
computing is supporting research that benefits society, and the work
that Purdue researchers are driving will yield new insights and
discoveries for years to come.”
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Links To:
www.dell.com/education
www.dell.com/hpcc
www.purdue.edu
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