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The U's New Data Center

The University of Utah is nearing completion of its new data center that will significantly increase its storage and server capabilities. The new data center is housed in an existing building, the old Coca Cola bottling plant at 9th South and West Temple. When the bottling company abandoned the building, WorldCom purchased it, gutted the interior and reinforced the structure so that it could serve as an earthquake-proof data center. When WorldCom ceased to exist, the University of Utah purchased the 74,000 sq. ft. building for $4.5 million. The University is now completing the construction of the interior rooms and the cooling and energy supply systems. CHPC plans to move in during the spring of 2012.

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The Center for High Performance Computing

The University of Utah's Center for High Performance Computing provides large-scale computer systems, networking, and the expertise to optimize the use of these high-end technologies. CHPC facilitates advance in academic disciplines whose computational requirements exceed the resources available in individual colleges or departments. Since 1996 these collaborations have resulted in more than 694 technical publications. CHPC's purview is to support faculty and research groups whose main focus requires computing and advanced networking as core instrument(s) central to their research. For detailed information on CHPC activities for 2010 please see our CHPC 2010 Report (PDF).