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New Zealand's fledgling "supercomputing" data processing industry
could receive a boost through a research partnership between Sun
Microsystems and Otago University.
Otago has been named as the
first university outside of the US to join Sun's OpenSPARC (scalable
processor architecture) network of research centres which includes
Carnegie Mellon and Stanford Universities.
New Zealand's fledgling "supercomputing" data processing industry
could receive a boost through a research partnership between Sun
Microsystems and Otago University.
Otago has been named as the
first university outside of the US to join Sun's OpenSPARC (scalable
processor architecture) network of research centres which includes
Carnegie Mellon and Stanford Universities.
The network is an
initiative aimed at encouraging researchers, programmers, engineers,
technologists and Sun executives to collaborate on projects addressing
the increasing demand for more powerful computers.
Sun says
Otago's inclusion in the network recognises the university's expertise
in computer architecture, networking and parallel computing.
Scott
Houston, of the Wellington-based New Zealand Supercomputer Centre,
which sells supercomputing processing capacity, said research being
carried out at Otago was of interest to the centre because of the
commercial opportunities it presented.
"We build on-demand
engines, which involve taking large problems, breaking them into
processes and solving these problems using large numbers of computers.
But some computational problems cannot be 'broken down' or
parallelised, such as climate modelling and human physiology."
"In those cases, we need to aggregate a large number of computers to
address the problem as one system; the work the Otago team are doing
addresses this."
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