{"51722":{"#nid":"51722","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CSE Receives Academic Excellence Grant From Sun","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E(July 25, 2006)--\u003C\/strong\u003EThe College of Computing\u2019s Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) division has received a Sun Microsystems Academic Excellence Grant (AEG) for the donation of two fully-configured Sun Fire T2000 Servers valued at $33,990. Sun\u00a0grants equipment to eligible organizations that develop creative projects addressing Sun\u2019s investment priorities and form partnerships for success.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECSE Associate Professor David Bader is leading the project titled, \u201cOptimizing Computational Science Applications on Sun Multithreaded Processors.\u201d Bader aims to design, implement, and optimize computational science applications for the Sun Fire T2000 Server using the multicore Sun UltraSPARC T1 processor that supports 32 simultaneous processing threads. Bader\u2019s prior work demonstrates good symmetric multiprocessor performance for applications in computational biology and national security, and this Sun AEG explores the extension of these applications to Sun\u2019s multicore processor.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEach Sun Fire T2000 Server contains an 8-core 1.0GHz UltraSPARC T1 processor, 16GB of DDR2 memory, and runs Solaris 10. Sun describes the UltraSPARC T1 processor with CoolThreads technology as \u201cthe highest throughput and most eco-responsible processor ever created. Drawing about as much power as a light bulb, its unprecedented 32 simultaneous processing threads gives the best performance per watt of any processor available.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about Associate Professor David Bader, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/component\/option,com_peopledb\/task,view\/contact_id,284451105\/Itemid,238\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor information about Sun Microsystems, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sun.com\/company\/index.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Computing\u2019s Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) division has received a Sun Microsytems Academic Excellence Grant (AEG) for multicore systems valued at $33,990.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:46:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:12","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}