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For Immediate Release
June 30, 2003

Duquesne University this week received a $325,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to build a supercomputer. The system is expected to rank as one of the top 50 academic machines available in the U.S. when it reaches production.

The machine's specific configuration, processor type and number of processors has not yet been determined.

The grant was awarded to Dr. Jeffrey Evanseck, director of Duquesne's Center for Computational Sciences, and fourteen other faculty members.

Duquesne is a member of the Super Computing Science Consortium, (SC)², a partnership of ten institutions of research and higher education in the Pittsburgh, PA - Morgantown, W.V. area. (SC)²'s mission is to advance energy and environment technologies through the application of high-performance computing and communications.

Local industry as well as researchers benefit directly from (SC)². As part of its outreach to area businesses, the consortium is presenting a seminar on July 14, 2003, titled "Regional Business Opportunities in Super Computing".

For more information:

"BSNES Plugs into Supercomputers" from the The Duquesne University Times
(SC)² 2003 Seminar: Regional Business Opportunities in Super Computing
(SC)² home page