September 20, 2002

SUNY at Buffalo Creates a Virtual Supercomputer

By FLORENCE OLSEN

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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