Posted on 20 July 2009. Tags: coates, Information technology at Purdue, quad core, steele, supercomputer, teraflops
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue is acting as if building world-class supercomputers is the newest college sport. For the second year in a row, Purdue will build what is expected to be the Big Ten’s largest campus computer, and as before, it will be running jobs by the end of the day. “Last year we […]
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Posted on 19 November 2008. Tags: steele, supercomputer
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue’s Steele supercomputing cluster is among the most powerful high-performance computing systems in the world, according to rankings released Tuesday (Nov. 18) at the SuperComputing ’08 conference in Austin, Texas. The Top 500 Supercomputer Sites project has been ranking the 500 most powerful known computer systems twice a year since 1993 […]
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Posted on 09 May 2008. Tags: Big Ten, indiana, Purdue University, steele, supercomputer, West Lafayette
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Staff members at Purdue University had hoped to build the Big Ten’s largest campus supercomputer in just a day on Monday, May 5. But it didn’t take that long — they were done by lunch. Purdue computer technicians put the finishing touches on Steele, a new supercomputer that is among the […]
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Posted on 01 May 2008. Tags: Big Ten, computer science, dell, megaflop, pentium, Purdue University, quad core, steele, supercomputer, West Lafayette
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The largest supercomputer on a Big Ten campus will be installed at Purdue in a single-day, electronic “barn-raising.” More than 200 employees will gather May 5 to help build the massive machine, which will be about the size of a semitrailer when installed. It will be the largest Big Ten supercomputer […]
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Posted on 01 May 2008. Tags: Big Ten, computer science, dell, megaflop, pentium, Purdue University, quad core, steele, supercomputer, West Lafayette
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The largest supercomputer on a Big Ten campus will be installed at Purdue in a single-day, electronic “barn-raising.” More than 200 employees will gather May 5 to help build the massive machine, which will be about the size of a semitrailer when installed. It will be the largest Big Ten supercomputer […]
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