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Center for
UTAH SUPERCOMPUTING INSTITUTE

University of Utah
Technology
  • Fully operational site

  • Developing infrastructure assiciated with a high speed communications network and numerically intensive computing resources

  • Application of computer codes to scientific and engineering problems requiring numerically intensive high end visualization computer resources

 

Center History

Established in 1989, in conjunction with researchers from IBM, the mission of USI is to establish a High Performance Computing Center to serve as a computational resource for Utah companies and universities. This partnership among industry and education is a unique resource for solving scientific and engineering problems that require unusually large memory and visualization requirements.

 

Highlights
  • Funded through 1992
  • IBM has contracted
    for $13M in matching
    funds
  • Negotiating on printer technology with IBM (potential $2M)
  • Also negotiating visualization package worth approximately $2 million
  • Signed a new 3 year agreement with IBM regarding visualization

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