CECM launches Study Group on Parallel Computing in Cooperation with Silicon Graphics

PSG consists of mathematicians, physicists, chemists and others interested in solving problems where parallelism may be exploited. Parallel computing offers a way to split a large problem into smaller pieces, where each piece is more manageable than the whole. Solving each subproblem and bringing the solution pieces together yields a complete solution to the original problem. "The hope, of course, is that the solution may be obtained much faster using this methodology," said Ronald Haynes, coordinator of PSG.

Faciliating the group's efforts is a state of the art multiprocessor that features eight 250 MHz processors. The SGI Origin R10000 machine has 4 GBytes of RAM and 27 GBytes of disk space. With their purchase of Cray Research, Silicon Graphics have affirmed their leadership in the supercomputing industry, developing some of the largest and fastest high performance computing machinery in the world.