HiPerGator opens up new worlds for University of Florida researchers

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Leonid Moroz, professor of neuroscience, biology and chemistry at the University of Florida

JACKSONVILLE ? A new $3.4 million supercomputer at the University of Florida will help researchers grapple with complex problems like genetic analysis, climate modeling and drug testing.

Built by Dell Inc. (Nasdaq: DELL) and unveiled May 7, HiPerGator can process 150 trillion calculations per second and is the fastest computer in Florida, according to the university. It has 16,000 cores ? the processing part of the computer ? all functioning in parallel, which means each is crunching data simultaneously and in connection with the others.

?Compared to other universities [in the nation], this puts us in the top 10 for ...

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