In a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday, November 20, Brown and IBM introduced a powerful new supercomputer, one that can perform more than 14 trillion calculations per second – more than 50 times faster than any other computer on campus.

The supercomputer, equal to the size of six refrigerators, is based on three IBM iDataPlex systems and includes an IBM Cluster 1350 and multiple IBM storage systems running General Parallel File System, supported by IBM Global Services. It is six times more energy-efficient than what had previously been available at Brown. The supercomputer is located in Brown’s original Philip Johnson-designed computing building (1961), now the Center for Computation and Visualization, on the corner of George and Brook streets.

Full Story: Supercomputer finds answers 50 times faster Source: Today at Brown, November 24th, 2009 Author: TAB Staff Added on December 22nd, 2009 at 2:32 pm, by Matt Mikula