University at Buffalo Adds 834-Node Dell Supercomputing Cluster to Power Campus Research.ROUND ROCK, Texas -- The Center for Computational Research (CCR 1. CCR - condition code register. 2. CCR - (Database) concurrency control and recovery. ) at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York (body) State University of New York - (SUNY) The public university system of New York State, USA, with campuses throughout the state. (UB) has installed an 834-node Dell (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :DELL) high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. cluster. The new cluster is made up of Dell PowerEdge This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. (TM) SC1425, 1850 and the award-winning Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers. It has a theoretical peak performance of more than 10 TFlops, with an anticipated sustained performance of more than 7 TFlops. The installation brings the number of processors in UB's CCR to nearly 7,000 and extends the center's theoretical peak performance from approximately 12 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) to approximately 22 TFlops, ranking it among the 50 fastest supercomputing clusters in the world. CCR, part of UB's New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, will use the new cluster to support research in life sciences, physical sciences, engineering and visualization. Even during installation, this machine was used extensively to render a number of animated videos that are currently being shown on MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. 2. Russ Miller, Ph.D., director of CCR and UB Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, said today's digital-driven society, in which research and discovery is often driven by simulation and modeling, requires high-end computing, including storage, networking, computing and visualization. "To achieve this, it is critical to build a balanced high-end infrastructure that incorporates the efficient collection, organization, processing, visualization and distribution of data," he said. The Dell PowerEdge 1850 and 2850 servers are the foundation of Dell's vision for the scalable enterprise, providing customers with powerful standards-based building blocks for consolidation, databases, enterprise applications and high-performance computing. The Dell PowerEdge SC1425 is a powerful 1U server specifically designed to meet the requirements of supercomputing clusters and distributed Web farms, where performance and cost are customers' top priority. "When analyzing our budget, the type of computing that would satisfy our users' needs in a cost-effective fashion and the quality of support and maintenance that we could expect, we chose a standards-based system from Dell that incorporates IBRIX and an EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. storage system, as well as interconnects from Force10 and Myricom," Miller said. John Mullen, vice president of Dell's higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. business, said clusters have become the platform for a growing number of the fastest supercomputers in the world. "More than 300 of the world's fastest supercomputers are using Intel(R) processors, and most of those are labeled 'clusters(a),'" Mullen said. "Dell's supercomputing strategy has always centered on a standards-based, scalable enterprise architecture, which offers customers flexibility and the most computing power for their money." About Dell Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) is a trusted and diversified information-technology supplier and partner, and sells a comprehensive portfolio of products and services directly to customers worldwide. Dell, recognized by Fortune magazine as America's most admired company and No. 3 globally, designs, builds and delivers innovative, tailored systems that provide customers with exceptional value. Company revenue for the past four quarters was $51.1 billion. For more information about Dell and its products and services, visit www.dell.com. About the University at Buffalo University at Buffalo is a premier research-intensive public university, the largest and most comprehensive campus in the State University of New York. UB's more than 27,000 students pursue their academic interests through more than 300 undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs. The university offers the only degrees in law, pharmacy and architecture in the SUNY SUNY - State University of New York system, and is the home of the only comprehensive public school of engineering and only school of informatics in New York State. (a) Complete list available at www.top500.org. Dell is a trademark of Dell Inc. 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