IBM Austin research
Laboratories have recently donated twenty (20) IBM InteliStation
workstations valued at $44,000 to the University of Minnesota Digital
Technology Center. Prof. Jaijeet Roychowdhury (Electrical and Computer
Engineering) and his students plan to connect these machines together
to form a small linux cluster, and to investigate speedups in circuit
simulation that can be obtained, easily and cheaply, by using such a
cluster. If successful, their experiments will open the way for companies
to harness the large numbers of relatively idle workstations they have to
solve large circuit simulation problems, which in many cases they cannot
solve today on account of lack of computers with enough memory.
IBM, which is also a lifetime member of the
DTC's Affiliates
Program, has been a strong and important partner of and contributor to
the DTC, its affiliated researchers and programs. Gifts such as these
InteliStations provide important resources to DTC researchers to help
address important real-world problems in digital technology.
