Officials at Princeton University are preparing to unveil a new supercomputer that will help astrophysics, engineering, and chemistry professors do some serious number-crunching. The machine—named "Orangena" in tribute to Princeton’s school color—is expected to crack the top 100 in a list of the world’s speediest supercomputers that will be published next week.
Supercomputers, of course, don’t come cheap, but researchers at Princeton were willing to make sacrifices to pay for Orangena: Seven professors pooled personal grant money to help buy the machine. (The Princeton Packet)
