IBM and NCSA Create World's Fastest Linux Supercomputers in Academia

Armonk, NY, January 16, 2001 -- IBM and The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign today announced that NCSA will install two IBM Linux clusters, creating the world's fastest Linux supercomputer in academia. NCSA's clusters will have two teraflops of computing power and will be used by researchers to study some of the most fundamental questions of science, such as the nature of gravitational waves first predicted by Albert Einstein in his Theory of Relativity.