Lion-X Nominated For Smithsonian Collection

January 17, 2000
University Park, Pa. -- Penn State’s newly constructed parallel computing cluster, named Lion-X, has been nominated for inclusion in the Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

The Lion-X cluster is a powerful, high performance parallel computing instrument that allows Penn State faculty and other researchers science and engineering to run computer simulation programs in a highly cost-effective manner. Atmospheric models used by the Department of Meteorology are among the first applications operated by Lion-X, effectively demonstrating the system’s capability to handle complex tasks.

Spearheading this latest innovation in resource clustering technology at Penn State are Russell Vaught, senior director of the Center for Academic Computing (CAC), and Kevin Morooney, CAC’s director for graduate education and research. The nomination of the Lion-X cluster was made by Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Computer Corporation, whose servers power each of the 33 computing nodes in Lion-X.

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