R Systems Unveils R Smarr Supercomputer
44th Fastest System on TOP500 List Named for Supercomputing Pioneer
Champaign, IL and San Diego, CA, June 19, 2008 -- A privately-owned company, R Systems, Inc., with one of the world's fastest and most powerful supercomputers, is honoring renowned supercomputing and Internet pioneer Larry Smarr by naming the supercomputer "R Smarr." The most powerful supercomputer owned and operated by a private company in the U.S., R Smarr was ranked #44 on the 31st annual TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers at the 23rd annual International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Dresden, Germany.
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The TOP500 list was released June 18 and is compiled by Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Germany; Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee.
"R Systems is a flexible solution provider for companies requiring powerful supercomputing applications," said Greg Keller, Principal with R Systems. "Our goal is to provide the most flexible supercomputing solutions with the ability to meet the needs of each individual client quickly, efficiently, and with the unique talent to turn on a dime for a customer."
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"With the R Smarr supercomputer, our existing relationships with large corporations, and our reputation for excellent customer service, R Systems can provide fast and efficient service to companies," said Brian Kucic, Vice President of Business Development and a former administrator at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). "R Systems is a business established to provide supercomputing services directly to businesses. We can provide fast, direct, and guaranteed service for companies needing quick and accurate information utilizing the R Smarr supercomputer."
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One of the world's best-known pioneers in the field of supercomputing applications, Professor Larry Smarr is the founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and Harry E. Gruber Professor in the Jacobs School of Engineering's Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. Professor Smarr is Principal Investigator on the NSF-funded OptIPuter project, Co-PI on the NSF LOOKING ocean observatory prototype, and PI of the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA), funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
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Professor Smarr received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and conducted observational, theoretical and computational based astrophysical sciences research for 15 years before becoming Director of NCSA. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1990 he received the Franklin Institute's Delmer S. Fahrney Gold Medal for Leadership in Science or Technology. He was a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee and previously served on the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the NASA Advisory Council. He served as chair of NASA's Earth System Science and Applications Advisory Committee and was the first chair of the newly formed NASA Science Advisory Council. In 2006 he was presented with the ESRI Lifetime Achievement Award and received the IEEE Computer Society's Tsutomu Kanai Award for distributed computing systems achievements.
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Media Contacts
Calit2: Doug Ramsey, 858-822-5825, dramsey@ucsd.edu
R Systems: Brian Kucic, VP of Business Development, 217-799-2543, bkucic@rsystemsinc.com or Dave Johnson, 217-714-7164, djhnsn1@illinois.edu