Computer giant Sun Microsystems donated $2 million in grant money to the University's Center for Advanced Information Processing for the development of a new supercomputer for research purposes.
The grant "will provide a new high-end, high-service computer called the Sun Fire 12K supercomputer," CAIP Senior Associate Director Edward J. Devinney, Jr. said. The server has 36 processors and 144 gigabytes of stored memory.
"This is about 70-100 times faster than a typical home computer with about 1000-2000 times more memory," said Brian Hammond, of the Scientific and Engineering Computing for Sun Microsystems Global Education and Research Group. It functions primarily for large memory computations and has been applied at the University for research in the fields of cosmology and astronomy, Hammond said.
In addition to faculty in the astronomy and cosmology department staff from the fields of engineering, physics and chemistry are expected to be frequent users of the new computer, Devinney said. Access to the computer will also be given to graduate and undergraduate students. "Rutgers is one of the few institutions that provides supercomputing access to undergraduates," Devinney said.
"At CAIP we see that the talents and expertise of faculty and researchers are being brought together to create a unique global computing infrastructure," Kim Jones, vice president of global education and research for Sun Microsystems, said in a prepared statement.
A global computing infrastructure also provides the ability to do better research on the Internet, Hammond said.
The corporate relationship CAIP has with companies like Sun Microsystems and others provide industry opportunities to students that they might not be able to get anywhere else, Devinney said. It also provides a useful research tool for everyone in the community, he said.
"Sun recognizes that every information technology that we rely on came out of University research," Hammond said. "Sun supports such research today to help supply the breakthroughs for the future."
"[The CAIP] supports forefront computer research in selected areas, furnishes a focus for industry-academic interactions in those areas, and provides a unique environment which combines research and education in fundamental disciplines of importance to future industrial development," according to the center's mission statement.
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The grant "will provide a new high-end, high-service computer called the Sun Fire 12K supercomputer," CAIP Senior Associate Director Edward J. Devinney, Jr. said. The server has 36 processors and 144 gigabytes of stored memory.
"This is about 70-100 times faster than a typical home computer with about 1000-2000 times more memory," said Brian Hammond, of the Scientific and Engineering Computing for Sun Microsystems Global Education and Research Group. It functions primarily for large memory computations and has been applied at the University for research in the fields of cosmology and astronomy, Hammond said.
In addition to faculty in the astronomy and cosmology department staff from the fields of engineering, physics and chemistry are expected to be frequent users of the new computer, Devinney said. Access to the computer will also be given to graduate and undergraduate students. "Rutgers is one of the few institutions that provides supercomputing access to undergraduates," Devinney said.
"At CAIP we see that the talents and expertise of faculty and researchers are being brought together to create a unique global computing infrastructure," Kim Jones, vice president of global education and research for Sun Microsystems, said in a prepared statement.
A global computing infrastructure also provides the ability to do better research on the Internet, Hammond said.
The corporate relationship CAIP has with companies like Sun Microsystems and others provide industry opportunities to students that they might not be able to get anywhere else, Devinney said. It also provides a useful research tool for everyone in the community, he said.
"Sun recognizes that every information technology that we rely on came out of University research," Hammond said. "Sun supports such research today to help supply the breakthroughs for the future."
"[The CAIP] supports forefront computer research in selected areas, furnishes a focus for industry-academic interactions in those areas, and provides a unique environment which combines research and education in fundamental disciplines of importance to future industrial development," according to the center's mission statement.
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