Georgia State’s new supercomputer allows for cutting-edge research

ATLANTA – Eric Hurst wants to know who is really in control of our country, and the Georgia State doctoral student in political science is using the university’s new supercomputer to get to the bottom of it.

Georgia State recently purchased an IBM System Cluster 1350 supercomputer through a partnership program between IBM and Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), a consortium of more than 60 research institutions.

Able to make three-trillion calculations per second, the power of 320 desktop computers, Georgia State’s new supercomputer is the latest addition to the school’s expanding inventory of supercomputing resources that will benefit researchers in various disciplines.