Cornell, Dell, Intel, Microsoft in Pact
Reuters | at | by Mike
Cornell University's research center for advanced computing said on Monday it will get $60 million to develop supercomputers using technology from Dell, Intel and Microsoft. Cornell Theory Center said the new agreement to get resources from the companies will allow it to double the size of its supercomputing "cluster" system, which already runs on servers, chips and software made by the three, and develop more affordable supercomputing systems. High performance computing is no longer limited to huge computers built by companies such as Cray Inc. and NEC, but now includes systems built with off-the-shelf components arranged in "clusters" that share the large computations by dividing up the workload.