Dell sells computing clusters to BYU

Dell has sold six supercomputer clusters to Brigham Young University, the company said Tuesday. The systems have between 11 and 217 dual-processor machines each for a total of 682 Intel-based Dell PowerEdge 1850 and PowerEdge 1855 blade servers. The nodes of the large cluster are connected with high-speed InfiniBand networking gear from Cisco.

The systems will be used for mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering; industrial design and rendering; agricultural research; chemical analysis; and at BYUs business school, for advanced statistical modeling, Dell said.

[prestonwily]

Nice to see them investing in this type of technology...

I went to BYU and I didn't know they had these kind of resources. Hopefully it will give the students a leg up on their competition in the work force :)

[Johnny Mnemonic]

Not very expensive

One can easily take off the shelf components and
set up a Linux cluster in short order. Spare
computer capacity is also a good resource. Dell
is generally known for its lower quality cheap
designs and this probably did not put the
University back too much (financially).