IBM Partners with Rutger’s University on New Supercomputer Centre

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) has won a contract to supply a supercomputer to the newly opened technology center at Rutger’s University. The center will house the company’s latest supercomputing effort, a $3.2 million behemoth, which will be available for use by both the university’s research groups and companies from the private sector. The super computer to be installed in the center is called Blue Gene/P. It will be one of the most powerful computers in the North Eastern United States and will vie to make it onto a list of the world’s 500 most powerful super computers. The new computer…