Kyoto University Purchases 768-CPU SGI Origin 3800 Supercomputer to Back KEGG Database

Oct 22, 2001

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The Institute for Chemical Research (ICR) at Kyoto University, home of the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG), has purchased a 768-CPU parallel supercomputing system from SGI that it said is one of the biggest supercomputing systems in Japan.

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