Georgia Institute of Technology Accelerates Drug Discovery With New IBM Supercomputing Cluster
February 9th, 2006 Leave a comment Visited 15 times, 1 so far today
Georgia Institute of Technology Accelerates Drug Discovery With New IBM Supercomputing Cluster
IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology today announced that one of the world’s most powerful supercomputing clusters will anchor Georgia Tech’s new Center for the Study of Systems Biology.
The Center will use IBM technologies to advance research into new drugs for the treatment of some of today’s most life-threatening diseases, including cancer. The Center’s research will be headed by one of the world’s leading systems biologists, Dr. Jeffrey Skolnick, the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Computational Systems Biology.
Funded by $8.5 million in grants from the State of Georgia, the Georgia Research Alliance and the National Institutes of Health, the new Center for the Study of Systems Biology merges Dr.Skolnick’s biomedical research expertise with IBM’s high-performance computing capabilities to create a brand new supercomputer. The new supercomputing cluster running Linux will be among the fastest in the world, and one of the most powerful among research universities in the Southeastern United States. The cluster is hosted by BellSouth’s world-class facilities in Midtown Atlanta.
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