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“Acting within 24 hours of receiving a request from researchers, the National Science Foundation late last week made an emergency allocation of 1 million compute hours on a supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas to study how the oil spreading from BP’s gusher will affect coastlines.”
The Kaleidoscope Project combines the power of the Mare Nostrum supercomputer with IBM’s Cell Processor to bring petaflop supercomputing to the oil and gas industry.