Dell Centers for Research Excellence Award Given To NCSA For Innovative Use of High-Performance Computing Clusters.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 2004 Researchers Will Study Weather Patterns, Molecular Dynamics Molecular dynamics (MD) is a form of computer simulation wherein atoms and molecules are allowed to interact for a period of time under known laws of physics, giving a view of the motion of the atoms. , Fluid Dynamics Using a Dell Supercomputing Cluster Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) today presented the Dell Centers for Research Excellence award to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (body, World-Wide Web) National Center for Supercomputing Applications - (NCSA) The birthplace of the first version of the Mosaic World-Wide Web browser. Address: Urbana, IL, USA. http://ncsa.uiuc.edu/. (NCSA (1) (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana-Champaign, IL, www.ncsa.uiuc.edu) A high-performance computing facility located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ) at the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
Scientists around the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. will use more than 1,400 Dell PowerEdge(tm) servers in a high-performance computing cluster (HPCC HPCC - High Performance Computing and Communications ) called "Tungsten." Research varies from analyzing dangerous weather patterns to better understand and predict severe storms, to simulating large biomolecular systems that can help scientists understand the fundamental processes of the human body and uncover molecular roots of disease. The Tungsten HPCC is the fourth fastest system ranked on the Top500 list of supercomputers(a) and the highest ranked system that is based on industry-standard systems. Installed last fall, a select group of scientists who analyze vast amounts of data using sophisticated applications have been experimenting with codes on the system since January. The Tungsten HPCC will be offered to the larger scientific community in April. Dell President and COO Kevin Rollins was at the University of Illinois to present the award and mark these achievements: "NCSA is conducting important research to help advance critical areas of science and medicine that have profound impacts on society," Rollins said. "We're proud to be the technology provider helping drive NCSA's research. The partnership between Dell and NCSA is a case study in collaboration, execution and excellent results." NCSA Interim Director Rob Pennington concurred. "NCSA and the University of Illinois are honored to receive this award from Dell today. Our close partnership has resulted in a promising new tool for scientists that will help them address the most compelling problems of our time." Other areas of research that the Tungsten HPCC is expected to assist include studies of the evolution, size and structure of the universe and theories on the lifecycle of stars like the sun. Dell's engineering and services organizations have been deeply involved in the design, deployment and ongoing operation of Tungsten. Dell and NCSA collaborated on every aspect of the HPCC, including cluster design, floor plans, electrical requirements and software. At least one Dell staff member is onsite with NCSA every day, and Dell manages ongoing relationships with other NCSA vendors involved in the cluster. NCSA's cluster consists of 1,474 Dell PowerEdge 1750 servers with dual Intel(R) Xeon(tm) processors running Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. . Other important technology partners for Tungsten include MSTI MSTI Main Science and Technology Indicators MSTI Miniature Sensor Technology Integration MSTI Miniature Seeker Technology Integration MSTI Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness (blog) MSTI Miniature Space Technology Investigation , Cluster File Systems Cluster File Systems, Inc. (CFS) is the company that originally developed the Lustre distributed file system. CFS was a privately held company with offices in the United States, Canada, and China. CFS was founded in 2001 by Dr. Peter Braam. Inc., Platform Computing, DataDirect Networks, Force10, and Myricom. The cluster computational system has a peak performance of 15.6 trillion floating point operations per second Noun 1. trillion floating point operations per second - (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system teraflop computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable (TFLOPS See teraFLOPS. ). "NCSA's choice of standards-based HPCC exemplifies the shift in supercomputing from expensive proprietary platforms to flexible standardized technologies. These systems scale easily with increased demand to offer greater availability and performance at low costs," Rollins said. For more information about other Dell Centers for Research Excellence and Dell's HPCC program, please visit: www.dell.com/hpcc. About NCSA NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) is a national high-performance computing center that develops and deploys cutting-edge computing, networking and information technologies. Located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Early years: 1867-1880 The Morrill Act of 1862 granted each state in the United States a portion of land on which to establish a major public state university, one which could teach agriculture, mechanic arts, and military training, "without excluding other scientific , NCSA is funded by the National Science Foundation. Additional support comes from the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, private sector partners and other federal agencies. For more information, see http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/. About Dell Dell Inc. (Nasdaq:DELL) is a premier provider of products and services required for customers worldwide to build their information-technology and Internet infrastructures. Company revenue for the past year totaled $41.4 billion. Dell, through its direct business model, designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements, and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals. Information on Dell and its products can be obtained at www.dell.com. (a) TOP500.org, 22nd Edition of TOP500 List of World's Fastest Supercomputers, Released Nov. 16, 2003, http://www.top500.org/list/2003/11/ Dell and PowerEdge are trademarks of Dell Inc. Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. |
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