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Purdue Builds Supercomputer in About Four Hours

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Did you know Trivia - Purdue University officials planned to build the Big Ten's largest campus supercomputer in one day. It ends up they completed the task by lunch. Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer Gerry McCartney says many workers arrived early to help build the computer made up of more than 800 servers and capable of performing 60 trillion operations per second. Indiana University surprised Purdue officials by sending a crew of technicians to help build the machine.
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