Advanced Clustering Technologies this week installed a new HPC cluster to meet the current and future high performance computing needs at Washington University in St. Louis. The university supports a large, diverse user community including researchers from disciplines not usually associated with HPC such as Economists and Radiologists. “We needed a heterogeneous mix of hardware to support the wide variety of applications being run on our systems,” said Malcolm Tobias, Systems Manager and Technical Programmer for Washington University in St. Louis. “Like everyone else, we can never have enough fast storage.” Initially, the university envisioned a cluster with 1,000 compute cores, but that plan was cost-prohibitive. To read further, please visit http://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/washington-university-st-louis-receives-new-hpc-cluster/ .