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Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) has launched a supercomputer cluster installed by T-Platforms. The supercomputer features the latest cluster technologies which include 48 Intel Xeon 5150 dual-core processors, Infiniband network and Linux (Novell SLES 10) and MS Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. The 7 million-ruble (US$264 thousand) cluster has peak performance of 1 Tflops - the fifth highest in Russia and the CIS - and storage capacity of 5 TB. When running LINPACK benchmark it achieved the speed of 750 billion operations per second while solving systems of linear equations. The cluster has been connected to TPU's campus network. The university intends to use it for research works in elementary particle physics, physics of electron beams and radiation transport, physics of interaction of charged particles with matter, modeling complex magnetic fields. Moreover, the supercomputer will serve for producing geological models of oil and gas fields. Original story can be seen at OSP International here.