IBM grant to put IU’s largest supercomputer in top 100

By Christine Fitzpatrick

Combined with additional expenditures by IU, the upgrade expands IU’s largest supercomputer to nearly 300 GFLOPS (300 billion mathematical operations per second), making it one of the largest supercomputers in the Midwest. The upgrade expands the capacity of IU’s RS/6000 SP to a level within the top 100 on the list of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers.

“This is the third consecutive year IBM has awarded IU $1 million or more in equipment through our SUR program,” said Anne Gardner, IBM vice president of university relations. “Our track record makes it clear that there’s a strong relationship between IBM and IU and that we value the research being conducted at the university.”

“This SUR grant underscores the value of the innovative computer and computational science research being done at Indiana University,” said Michael McRobbie, IU vice president for information technology and chief information officer. “The grant will help create a unique supercomputer resource distributed across IU’s two main research campuses in Indianapolis and Bloomington. IU’s high-speed optical fiber network will integrate the computers into a single massive computing resource.”

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