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UB'S SUPERCOMPUTER GETS CAPACITY UPGRADE
Published on February 6, 2000
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A year after it opened, the University at Buffalo's supercomputer center has received an upgrade that secures its status as one of the top academic computing sites in the U.S., officials said.
The center's Silicon Graphics Inc. Origin2000 machine doubled its capacity to 128 processors, giving it 64 "gigaflops," or 64 billion operations per second of computing power, said Russ Miller, director of the UB Center for Computational Research. The extra power allows researchers to do more work in computation-intensive subjects like fluid dynamics and computational chemistry. The upgrade -- with a commercial value of $3.2 million before grants and discounts -- included more workstations and a visualization computer that runs the center's 3-D imaging equipment, a design tool. The SGI machine is one of three high-powered computers at the center.<
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