To safely develop new drugs from organic compounds and to develop more stable aircraft and satellites by harnessing the compute power of shared-memory architecture from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI), the Office of Information Technology and the Office of Research as well as the College of Science and the Mathematics Department at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, VA, recently selected SGI(R) compute and visualization technology. The SGI systems will be used as centralized resources available to all faculty and researchers, and to easily port a host of scientific codes to the open systems Linux(R) OS.
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