The ‘Shadow’ will compute for MSU

There’s nothing shadowy about Mississippi State University’s supercomputing prowess; but that reputation will get 10-fold more powerful following an announcement that the Starkville facility will get a “revolutionary” high-performance supercomputer for shared research beginning in December. MSU’s High Performance Computing Collaboratory will get the boost from Cray Inc.’s CS300-LC ‘Shadow’ cluster supercomputer. The ‘Shadow’ will be located at the Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park adjacent to campus. Once operational, the warm water heat exchangers and liquid-cooled design will even use less energy. MSU computer system supports a coalition of research centers that share computational science and engineering computations. Among those groups is the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems which is comprised of research, engineering design and development, and technology transfer teams for industry and government partners. Source: Mississippi Business blog, Oct. 3, 2013.