Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Takes Delivery of SGI Shared Memory Systems
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Takes Delivery of SGI Shared Memory Systems
PITTSBURGH, March 25, 2008 - On schedule with plans announced in January, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has taken delivery and begun testing two new SGI Altix® 4700 systems. One, named "Pople" for Nobel-Prize-winning chemist John Pople, will be integrated into the TeraGrid, the National Science Foundation program of comprehensive cyberinfrastructure, substantially increasing the "shared memory" capability available through NSF for U.S. science and engineering research.