Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center adds AlphaServer GS1280 system

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Biomedical researchers to benefit from shared memory, high-performance system of AlphaServer GS1280 system

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) announced plans to install an AlphaServer GS1280 computing system to support the worldwide biomedical research community. Operated by Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the Westinghouse Electric Company, PSC supplies high-end computing resources to research scientists at American universities for their work in physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, and computer science.

The high-performance system will help solve important data-intensive and memory-intensive problems in genomics, structural and chemical biology, and neuroscience.

This purchase of the hp AlphaServer GS1280 system was made possible by a National Institutes of Health $1.3 million grant. The exceptional memory bandwidth of the new EV7-based AlphaServer systems, along with their "shared memory" architecture, offer powerful advantages for many scientific applications.

The new system will complement LeMieux, PSC's 3,000-processor terascale AlphaServer computing system running the hp Tru64 UNIX operating system and AlphaServer SC software -- the most powerful non-military research system in the United States committed solely to public research. The AlphaServer GS1280 system's shared-memory architecture allows each processor equal access to all of the memory available on the entire system, a capability particularly well-suited to such biomedical applications as protein simulations and genome sequencing. Moreover, the EV7-based systems' memory bandwidth-- the speed at which data is transferred between the processor hardware and random access memory-- is five to ten times greater than competitive products.

"These new AlphaServer systems deliver what we require. Not only do they deliver more usable bandwidth than anything else, the modularity of the system architecture in conjunction with its manageability makes this an outstanding platform for this decade. We continue to be delighted by the decision we made to use AlphaServer technology."

Dr. Michael Levine
Scientific Director
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

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