September 6, 2002

$60-Million Deal Bolsters Cluster-Supercomputing Program at Cornell U.

By BROCK READ

In a multimillion-dollar deal with three heavyweights of the personal-computer industry -- Dell, Intel, and Microsoft -- Cornell University will expand a research center that focuses on high-performance computing. Under the agreement, announced last month, the companies will provide the Cornell Theory Center with $60-million in hardware and software.

The new resources, some of which already have arrived at the university's laboratories in Ithaca, N.Y., and New York City, will

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