August 18, 2000
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Wins $45-Million for Terascale Machine
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has received a $45-million award from the National Science Foundation for a terascale computing system to support university researchers at the leading edge of computational science. Staff members at the Pittsburgh center will work with engineers from the Compaq Computer Corporation to develop the system with 2,728 Compaq Alpha processors, which can compute a trillion or more calculations per second.
The center, which is
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