IBM Offers Free Number Crunching for Humanitarian Research Projects
Daniel Clery · Science · 2005
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.—When researchers have a project that involves a lot of number crunching, they usually have to think small. They compress data and algorithms to make the best use of expensive computer time. Now the computer giant IBM is offering researchers who meet certain criteria a chance to do the opposite: to think big—supercomputer big—and it will provide access to the computing power for free.