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processors and 1 GB of memory. Seven IBM xSeries 345 Intel processor based servers connect 

to five terabytes of IBM TotalStorage FAStT700 storage servers to house large volumes of 

biological and research data. The supercomputer forms the basis of the IBM eServer Cluster 

1350, a pre packaged and tested supercluster that is ultra dense and incredibly easy to manage.  

IBM and the University of Texas at Austin report they plan to build the largest university grid 

computing project in the United States. The UT Grid will unite the vast computational resources 

of the nation's largest university campus, with more than 50,000 students and 20,000 faculty and 

staff members. Meanwhile, the University of Oregon, Electrical Geodesics, Inc., and IBM 

announce a new project that uses Grid computing, Linux and IBM supercomputer technology to 

speed and improve the diagnosis of Epilepsy, stroke and depression.  

IBM researchers develop a high speed photodetector that could greatly increase the speed at 

which information travels to and from microchips, boosting performance in computers and other 

types of electronic systems.  

IBM scientists achieve a breakthrough in nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging by directly 

detecting the faint magnetic signal from a single electron buried inside a solid sample. This 

achievement is a major milestone toward creating a microscope that can make three dimensional 

images of molecules with atomic resolution.  

The U.S. Department of Defense selects new high performance computing systems from IBM 

for deployment at the Naval Oceanographic Office's Major Shared Resource Center. Once 

deployed, the systems are expected to be the fastest supercomputer in the U.S. military and one 

of the fastest supercomputing clusters in the world. The supercomputer will consist of IBM 

eServer p655 systems connected together with IBM's clustering technology, based on 

POWER4+ microprocessors and using the AIX operating system environment.  

IBM introduces a breakthrough chip morphing technology, leading to a new class of 

semiconductor products that can monitor and adjust their functions to improve their quality, 

performance and power consumption without human intervention.  

IBM scientists measure a fundamental magnetic property of a single atom    the energy required 

to flip its magnetic orientation. This is the first result by a promising new technique they 

developed to study the properties of nanometer scale magnetic structures that are expected to 

revolutionize future information technologies.  

The company announces the latest series of Shared University Research awards, bringing the 

IBM's contributions to foster collaborative research to more than $70 million over the past three 

years. The new awards will support 20 research projects with 27 universities worldwide. The 

projects range from a multiple university exploration of on demand supply chains to an effort to 

find biomarkers for organ transplants.  

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