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Rice
University's Computer and Information Technology Institute (CITI) is
building Texas' fastest academic supercomputer, the Rice Terascale
Cluster (RTC) on HP's Intel® Itanium® 2-based workstations and servers. RTC will be composed of 132 HP Workstations zx6000 and four HP
rx5670 Servers. The systems, to be interconnected via a high-speed,
low-latency communications system, will use the 64-bit Intel® Itanium®
2 processor and extend its capabilities with the performance and cost
advantages of the HP Chipset zx1.
"Since RTC is a shared resource, it has to have the flexibility to
meet a diverse set of high-performance computing needs — be they
computationally demanding, data intensive or mathematically complex.
With the next generation of HP Itanium-based systems, HP
is providing the technical computing world with exceptional
high-performance computing and the flexibility to run multiple
operating systems on a single platform. HP's
innovative designs give us the features we need today — visualization
capabilities, a large parallel file server, and a shared front-end —
making it easy and inexpensive for us to expand RTC in the future."
Anthony J. Elam
Associate Dean of Engineering
Rice University
Itanium is a trademark or registered trademark of
Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other
countries.
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