by Angela Guess
IBM has teamed with Rutgers to build a high-performance computing center in New Jersey. According to the post, “Rutgers [yesterday] formally launched a high-performance computing (HPC) center at the university focused on the application of ‘Big Data’ analytics in life sciences, finance, and other industries. The center is aimed at improving the economic competitiveness of New Jersey’s public and private research organizations.”
It continues, “The HPC center will be part of the newly created Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2)and will utilize supercomputing equipment and software provided by IBM in the project’s first phase. Rutgers anticipates future expansion of the center will lead to the university having one of the world’s most powerful academic supercomputers.”
The article adds, “The institute, powered by an IBM Blue Gene®/P supercomputer, has several goals: (1) Creating an HPC resource, with expert support, for industry in New Jersey and the surrounding region. (2) Educating the New Jersey workforce and Rutgers students in working with advanced analytics and a state-of-the-art HPC center. (3) Providing HPC resources to Rutgers faculty members and regional organizations, who are expanding their use of extremely large data sets.”
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