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PITTSBURGH, December 26, 2006 — As announced in November, PSC has upgraded its Cray XT3, known as BigBen, to 2,068 dual-core nodes, doubling its processor count to 4,136. Because the flop rate of the new processors is 2.6 Gflops, increased from 2.4, BigBen's computing capacity has more than doubled.
Between now and April 1, 2007, some informal access to the machine (not requiring a reviewed proposal), aka friendly usage, may be possible for people who do not currently have an XT3 allocation. Please contact PSC Allocations by email (grants@psc.edu) or telephone (412-268-7143 or 800-221-1641) to get started or for more information.
About PSC:
The Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center is a joint effort of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh together with Westinghouse Electric Company.
Established in 1986, PSC is supported by several federal agencies, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and private
industry, and is a resource provider in the National Science Foundation TeraGrid program.