Brown, IBM open most powerful supercomputer in RI
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Brown, IBM Open Supercomputer
The multimillion-dollar supercomputer is the most powerful in the state.Published: November 20, 2009
Updated: November 20, 2009
PROVIDENCE—Brown University and IBM have opened a multimillion-dollar supercomputer that is the most powerful in the state.
The supercomputer opened Friday at Brown’s Center for Computation and Visualization.
Brown and IBM say the supercomputer has 1,440 microprocessors and can perform more than 14 trillion calculations per second. That’s nearly 50 times faster than what was available at Brown before.
It will be available to scientists and researchers around the region, including the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and the the University of Rhode Island.
Brown says it will be a boon to researchers who deal with complicated, large datasets.
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Maybe they can use it to find an answer to the rowdiness of URI and Brown students. You know—the ‘parties’ that turn into brawls and drunken criminal mischief.
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