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To accelerate research as diverse as creating high-speed evolution of digital organisms and studying cosmological distances using exploding white dwarfs, Michigan State University's High Performance Computing Center (HPCC), a long-time SGI customer, has added to their existing technology from SGI (NASDAQ:SGIC). With the installation of a 1,024-core SGI(R) Altix(R) XE1300 cluster the HPCC can now offer more power and processors to researchers than most individual university labs. In use since September, the SGI Altix cluster has delivered field-proven performance for a number of very high-level studies and development.
Charles Ofria, an assistant professor in MSU's computer science and engineering department, has several projects that his students are moving to the SGI system. Ofria, who also teaches courses in the Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Program, is the Director of the Digital Evolution Laboratory and the primary creator of Avida open-source software. Developed at CalTech in a UNIX(R) environment that included previous generation SGI systems, Avida is...
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