IBM Award to Help Establish Multicore Supercomputing Center at UMBC

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and IBM recently announced a collaboration to create The Multicore Computing Center (MCC), a unique facility that will focus on supercomputing research related to aerospace/defense, financial services, medical imaging and weather/climate change prediction. IBM awarded UMBC a significant gift to support the development of this new center, which researchers describe as an "orchestra" of one of the world's most powerful supercomputing chips.

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