Achievements
CAC and its predecessor CTC have achieved a number of firsts, including being the first Dell supercomputer deployment (first Dell system to make "Top 500" supercomputer list); the first & fastest IBM Scalable POWERparallel System SP2 supercomputer deployment (serial number 1); the first parallel version of MATLAB (MultiMATLAB) designed with the MATLAB product; and the first parallel job scheduler for Windows.
A new Computing and Information Science building called Gates Hall is now under construction on the Cornell campus. It was funded in part by a $25 million gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and is expected to open in 2015.
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