NEWS: Rice & IBM to partner

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Mar 31 |13:13

Rice University and IBM will partner to build the first award-winning IBM Blue Gene supercomputer in Texas.

Rice announced a related collaboration agreement with the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil to share administration and use of the Blue Gene. Rice and USP researchers will use the Blue Gene for research related to energy, geophysics, astronomy, life sciences, cancer, particle physic, personalized medicine and more.

The supercomputer is slated to become operational in May.

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