October 27, 2000

Stanford, through a partnership with SGI, has recently purchased a 128 
processor SGI Origin 3800 with 64GB RAM and a 2 Terabyte Disk. The Origin 
3800 is SGI's newest high-performance, shared-memory multiprocessing server 
based upon SGI cache-coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access (ccNUMA) 
architecture. This computer will be overseen by a faculty committee and 
will be provided as a resource to the Stanford community engaged in 
Biocomputation research. The purchase of this supercomputer was enabled by 
the support of the Bio-X program and the Clark Center for Biomedical 
Engineering and Sciences, the SoE, SoM and Dean of Research, and the 
Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Medicine, Genetics, Structural 
Biology, Surgery, and Computer Science. Further details will be available 
at an upcoming press conference. Information on applying for accounts and 
computer time will be e-mailed to the Stanford Biocomputation community 
after the installation of the supercomputer, currently scheduled for 
late-November.


  - Charley Taylor

Assistant Professor in the department of Surgery and Mechanical Engineering. 
Chair, Stanford Committee on Biocomputation Core Facility 
Member of the BITS Faculty Group