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[Ilan Volow <listboy AT clarux.com>]

On Wednesday, January 28, 2004, at 02:26  PM, zman wrote:
>

> It's all in how you leverage it. There are a lot of ways to sell
> supercomputing time on the open market as well as use it in your own
> research. If you read VT's site you would know
>                                         "The university's faculty
> and students are involved in more than 3,700 research projects in 
> fields
> ranging from biotechnology to materials, from the environment and 
> energy
> to food and health, and from transportation to computing information."
>
> This kind of research can take an immense amount of computational 
> power.
> They now have it in the palm of their hands. As for NC research. I 
> work in
> a lab at NCSU, there are at least 4 small (under 30 machine) clusters 
> in
> our building alone. If there was some sort of cooperation between these
> labs there would probably be a super cluster here as well. I think more
> right now in NC it's about politics than a spirit of cooperation.
>
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In addition to the current supercomputing clusters at NCSU, there is 
also an effort underway by PackMUG (the NCSU mac users group) to build 
a community-based supercomputer grid using spare cycles from faculty 
and student machines (that community-oriented enough for people?) and 
the Apple XGrid technology. Some of the details of the project and 
contact info are on the PackMUG website, located at 
http://packmug.ncsu.edu/index.php

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Ilan Volow
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!