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Subject: Dell, UT unveil $38M supercomputer Author: Dell_a+phonics [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 11:05:07 10/04/03 Sat Dell, UT unveil $38M supercomputer Ann Hatchitt Austin Business Journal Staff Texas' most powerful supercomputer for academic research was unveiled Friday at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas. With the purchase of 300 computer servers from Round Rock-based Dell Inc., the new "Lonestar" computing cluster gives UT scientists and engineers the power of more than 3 trillion computer operations per second, or 3 teraflops. The cost of the five-year project is about $38 million, with half from UT and the other half from various private foundations. The Arlington, Va.-based National Science Foundation recently donated $3 million toward the program. The university plans to add at least 200 servers to the cluster within a year. Juan Sanchez, UT's vice president for research, says the return on investment to the university is tremendous. Scientists, engineers and researchers from all disciplines at UT will tap the cluster's, Sanchez says. Many of the projects have the potential to enter the commercial marketplace for uses such as predicting climate changes and locating petroleum reserves. Dell Chairman and CEO Michael Dell says his company's involvement in the project is significant because of the tremendous research and development achieved at Texas Advanced Computing Center. "The same servers we sell one or two at a time to our business customers are now being used in a huge cluster to achieve high-performance results," Dell says. The cluster also will be an important tool for continued research between Dell and UT on the performance and management of large-scale clusters and new clustering technologies, according to the computing center. The "Lonestar" cluster more than triples the power of the center's "Longhorn" cluster, which features 1.16 trillion computer operations per second, or 1.16 teraflops. The "Longhorn" cluster features servers from Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM Corp. [NYSE: IBM]. "Lonestar" consists of 300 Dell PowerEdge 1750 and PowerEdge 2650 servers running the Linux operating system from Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat Inc. [Nasdaq: RHAT]. Dell worked with Seattle.-based Cray Inc. [Nasdaq: CRAY] to design and install the cluster. The computing center provides UT researchers with advanced computing resources and services. The center is at UT's J.J. Pickle Research Campus on Burnet Road in North Austin. In the past two years, the center has grown from 13 to 50 employees. Dell [Nasdaq: DELL] makes and sells computers and other information technology products and services. It is the Austin area's largest corporate employer, with about 16,000 workers. Email ANN HATCHITT at (ahatchitt@bizjournals.com). © 2003 American City Business Journals Inc. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]