IBM sites Cell centre on campus
IBM is setting up a worldwide centre for developing products and applications using its Cell processor technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. The $3.8million investment is the first such IBM facility on a college campus.
“We chose Indiana for this centre because of the close proximity of leading institutions like IU, IU School of Medicine and Purdue, as well as its well earned reputation as a hot bed of life sciences expertise,” said centre manager Dr Robert Eades. “We believe we can couple this expertise with the advanced capabilities of our Cell technology to benefit not only medicine, but a broad range of industries and applications.”
According to IBM, other academic institutions and business customers will have access to the centre in order to design, test and optimise devices based on its ‘supercomputer on a chip’ technology.
