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Wednesday, October 23, 2002
http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/story.asp?id=%7B90F08547-631A-4E43-8F0A-6797964FEB1F%7D U of Alberta builds supercomputer in a day Scott McKeen, Journal Staff Writer, The Edmonton Journal A serious shortage of world-class computing power in Canada prompted University of Alberta scientists to create the next best thing -- a countrywide, virtual supercomputer. On Nov. 4, thousands of computers from research centres across the country will be strung together by a U of A effort to create the most powerful computer in this country. The computers will work jointly on a molecular chemistry research question that would take a single computer as long as six years to complete. Jonathan Schaeffer and Paul Lu, professors in the U of A's department of computer science, expect their virtual supercomputer will do the work in one -- one day, that is....
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