Charlie Peck, Alex Lemann, and Kevin Hunter attended SC06, the
supercomputing conference last week in Tampa, FL. While there
Charlie entered a contest sponsored by Intel and ultimately won an 8
node, 64 core (~500 GFLOP) computational cluster. The three of them
also participated in the 2 day SC Educational Program and made
numerous presentations on their LittleFe project.
The new cluster will be used to support local projects in
computational chemistry (Lori Watson, Chemistry), phylogenetic
inference (John Iverson, Biology) and genetic sequencing (Peter
Blair, Biology). It will also be used by the National Computational
Science Institute and the SC Education Program to develop curriculum
modules for high performance computing and computational science.
URLS:
http://cluster.earlham.edu - Earlham's Cluster Computing Group
http://sc06.supercomputing.org - SC06 SuperComputing Conference
ttp://LittleFe.net - Portable computational cluster
http://computationalscience.org - National Computational Science
Institute
http://sc-education.org - SC Education Program