By Heather McLean, 12 March 2002 14:35
NEWS Compaq and Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) are creating a giant life sciences supercomputing facility. The pair are jointly investing $6.8m in hardware and software to develop the supercomputing unit which will be the largest in the Asia Pacific region. The investment will be based at the new Bioinformatics Research Centre (BIRC) at NTU and when completed it will be capable of achieving half a trillion operations per second. BIRC's supercomputer will be completed early in 2003 and will be ranked among the top 80 most powerful supercomputers in the world. Compaq is already heavily involved in the life sciences arena having done a deal with US-based firm Celera Genomics to develop software for a supercomputer that will unravel the human genome.
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