Meet Crunchie the Cray, the Dancing Hippo of South African Bioinformatics

Jul 11, 2002

NEW YORK, July 11 - On Monday, the South African National Bioinformatics Institute fired up the continent's most powerful supercomputer, an 8-gigaflop Cray expected to jumpstart the country's genomics research.

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