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A SUPERCOMPUTER FOR IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY

Iowa State University issued the following news release:

Finally, Iowa State University researchers can talk about trillions of calculations per second.

That's because a $1.25 million IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer is now on campus. The National Science Foundation awarded a research team led by Srinivas Aluru, an Iowa State professor of electrical and computer engineering, $600,000 to purchase the supercomputer. Iowa State paid the remaining $650,000 with allocations from the President's Office, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Information Technology Services and the Plant Sciences Institute.

Other members of the supercomputing research team are Robert Jernigan, a professor of ...

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