September 20, 2002
SUNY at Buffalo Creates a Virtual Supercomputer
Researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo announced last month that they have plugged more than 2,000 standard servers into fast network switches to create a virtual supercomputer. The resulting "supercomputer cluster," with 4,120 processors, will become the computational workhorse for a new bioinformatics center at the university.
Researchers said the powerful cluster computer would be used almost exclusively for running large simulations to study the structure of
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