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University of Pittsburgh gets wired for speed with Apple Xserve G5 cluster

Every week on CBS's hit series Numb3rs, an FBI agent relies on his math genius brother to find patterns that help to solve crimes. With its new Apple Xserve G5 computing cluster, the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH) is solving double-helix puzzles in human genetics every day. Using Pitt's 125-node Xserve cluster, more than 30 investigators and scientific teams tackling more than 120 projects have computing power available like never before.

Full Article: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-04/uopm-uop041305.php

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