NCSA To Build $53 Million, 13-Teraflop Facility

Posted by timothy on Friday August 10, 2001 @02:07AM from the lucky-numbers dept.

Quite a few readers submitted news of a distributed system to be built by four U.S. institutions (mostly) out of IBM computers, and paid for with a whopping grant. DoctorWho and november writes: "'The National Science Foundation has awarded $53 million to four U.S. research institutions to build and deploy a distributed terascale facility...' A link to the press release is here." An anonymous reader contributed a link to coverage on Wired, and GreazyMF to one of this story at the New York Times.

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Re:Just to get on with it by garcia · 2001-08-10 03:02 · Score: 1, Offtopic

11. yeah, it can do all that, but can it get me pr0n?
Can you? by Mononoke · 2001-08-10 02:14 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Imagine a Beow....
Aww, shit. nevermind.

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