Hans Meuer acquires a non-TOP500 computer

Munich, 17 November 97 The TOP500 pope, Professor Hans Meuer is moving to commercial applications. In February the new Siemens-Nixdorf RM1000 will officially be taken into service at the University of Mannheim. The machine will be subdivided into several systems and be used in education and training in SAP R/3 as well as in Operations Research.

Siemens Nixdorf is presently installing a brand new RM1000 server with 8 cells and a total of 48 processors, 256 MByte memory. The machine will be specifically used for SAP R/3 and other commercial applications in the University. The main areas for use of the computer at the University of Mannheim are applied economics and business economics. The computer centre in Mannheim and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Computing at University Heidelberg are cooperating. One project is a Pentium Pro Cluster with Magrinet communication. There are 8 nodes with 16 Pentium Pro's. In this project the partners analyse the usage of low cost systems in a computer centre environment.

Uwe Harms