How to Build a Supercomputer in One Day

Sometimes it's lonely on campus, being a planner. Start planning now to attend higher education's premier planning conference for 2010, SCUP–45, July 10–14 in Minneapolis, where you can network and converse with more than 1,000 of your peers and colleagues.

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Well, it takes more than a bit of planning first, but Purdue University built a "community cluster" super computer this year, and it was running operations before one full work day was over. The concept of community cluster means that a variety of campus units which need super computer computing power, pool resources, each contributing funds for a number of "nodes" but gaining in return far more computing power (and time) then they could have gotten on their own. Like we said, it takes careful planning and as well, an IT department with competence and capability for operation and management.