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EMSL Monthly Report: August/September 2007

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News Coverage

A press conference was held September 28, 2007, to announce the new contract with Hewlett Packard for the purchase of a $24 million dollar computer system. The story was covered locally by KNDU (NBC affiliate), KEPR (CBS affiliate), the Tri-City Herald, and KONA radio, and nationally by a HPC Wire article and a Computerworld article.

The next generation supercomputer will enable EMSL users to advance molecular science in areas such as aerosol formation, bioremediation, catalysis, climate change, hydrogen storage, and subsurface science. Installation of the new system will begin in January 2008, and the system is expected to be fully operational in September 2008. This system will allow EMSL users to study more complex scientific problems with larger and more realistic models, obtain answers in less time by scaling computational models to a larger numbers of processors, and acquire a greater level of detail in simulations and more complete answers to scientific questions.