Supercomputing time for rent at Maui supercomputer center

Maui 09 Mar 00 The Maui High Performance Computing Center has started lletting companies rent capacity on its new IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputers. For fees starting at $3.50 an hour per node for computing time, companies can open an account with MHPCC to access the system over the Internet and use the processing power of RS/6000 SP supercomputers for both research and production applications. Companies with average workloads can expect to spend about $300 per day.

MHPCC, run by the University of New Mexico through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, is the only national supercomputing center chartered by the federal government to support commercial users. The service is the first to let customers rent capacity on the RS/6000 SP Power3s.

The system supports IBM's symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) technology and is deployed in two configurations: one the facility calls Tempest, a cluster of 46 four-processor P3 nodes for computationally demanding parallel applications, and Squall, which has four 4-processor P3 nodes and 32 IBM SP Power2 Super Chip nodes. MHPCC hopes to attract more commercial users to the syst

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