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$20M to Stony Brook for supercomputer institute

Professor Robert Harrison, a distinguished expert in high-performance

Photo credit: Handout | Professor Robert Harrison, a distinguished expert in high-performance computing has been named founding director of the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University. (Aug. 6, 2012)

Two donations totaling $20 million will enable Stony Brook University to harness supercomputers and perhaps find the "proverbial needle in the haystack" to solve some of society's most complex problems, the school announced Monday.

The Institute for Advanced Computational Science will marry high-performance computers that can run billions of equations per second with people who can design...

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