NEW YORK, March 11 (GenomeWeb News) - The University of California, San Diego, has installed a 2.6-teraflop, 210-node Dell PowerEdge Linux cluster to support bioengineering and computational biology research, the university said last week.
The system, "purchased from Dell for less than $180,000 per Teraflop," according to a UCSD statement, was purchased with support from the National Institutes of Health and the Whitaker Foundation.
UCSD celebrated the installation of the cluster at a ribbon-cutting ceremony March 9.
Eventually, the cluster will also be made available to computational biologists and bioengineers across the country, the university said.