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Article: NSF AWARDS $20 MILLION TO UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO TO DEVELOP 'GORDON'
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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LA JOLLA, Calif., Nov. 4 -- The University of California at San Diego issued the following press release:
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build and operate a powerful supercomputer dedicated to solving critical science and societal problems now overwhelmed by the avalanche of data generated by the digital devices of our era.
Among other features, this unique and innovative supercomputer will employ a vast amount of flash memory to help speed solutions now hamstrung by slower spinning disk technology. Also, new "supernodes" will exploit virtual shared-memory software to ...