The University of Nebraska is the latest collegiate customer to buy a computer cluster from Lawrence-based Atípa Technologies.
Atípa - the high-performance computer division of Microtech Computers Inc., 4921 Legends Drive - delivered the $600,000.00 computer cluster to the school?s campus in Lincoln , Neb.
The hardware built in Lawrence already has been dubbed ?Prairie Fire? by university researchers. The cluster operates 1,000 times faster than a personal computer and has enough storage to handle every book in the Library of Congress, said Bret Stouder, director of Atípa.
The cluster consists of 256 AMD Athlon 1.4 gigahertz processors, networked with more than a half mile of fiber-optic cable
Last year, Atípa built and delivered a $1 million supercomputer cluster for Clemson University in Clemson , S.C.
I think they got ripped off :Q and i can't see it operate 1,000 times faster than a pc with say an xp 2400 in it :|