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Article: KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FRESHMAN MANAGES LARGEST SUPERCOMPUTER IN KANSAS, SUPPORTING RESEARCH PROJECTS ACROSS CAMPUS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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MANHATTAN, Kan., Nov. 3 -- Kansas State University issued the following news release:
Many researchers at Kansas State University do such sizeable projects - like identifying genetic markers that correlate to drought resistance in plants - that they rely on computational support from the largest supercomputer in the state.
K-State's Beocat is a cluster of servers that allows for larger research projects to run simulations on a machine that is guaranteed to be constantly running for at least two weeks. The system administrator is a K-State freshman, Adam Tygart, who studies computer science. He is a 2006 graduate of Saint Francis High School.
"Most people's computers aren't going to be able ...