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Photo by David Kilper
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High-performance computing
During a Sept. 25 inauguration ceremony and tour of the new Washington University Center for Scientific Parallel Computing in Arts & Sciences, Wai-Mo Suen, Ph.D. (right), professor of physics, discusses one of the center's two supercomputers with fellow Arts & Sciences member Victor Wickerhauser, Ph.D., professor of mathematics. The center's supercomputers, a 64 CPU Origin 2000 and a 16 CPU Itanium cluster, are based on parallel technology harnessing the power of multiple processors to process information and graphics at high speed. Suen was principal investigator and Wickerhauser a co-investigator on the National Science Foundation grant to purchase the supercomputers and establish the center, now located in the Power Plant. Suen noted that students and faculty in 24 University research groups from varying disciplines -- science, engineering, business and medicine -- are now using the supercomputers. "Work that would take a month on a workstation now takes a few hours on the supercomputers here," Suen said. |
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