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New Supercomputer to Aid Genomics Research
February 18, 2013
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The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has gifted the Institute for Genomic Biology a highly parallel, shared memory supercomputer named Ember. The Ember computing system has become part of the IGB biocluster, adding 1536 cores and eight terabytes of memory spread across four nodes.
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Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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