Virginia Tech Lands National Science Foundation Award for HokieSpeed
By Lynn A. Nystrom
August 5, 2010
Two million dollars is coming to Virginia Tech to create HokieSpeed, a versatile new supercomputing instrument for accelerating and transforming discovery and innovation across a myriad of disciplines.
Wu Feng, associate professor of computer science as well as electrical and computer engineering and principal investigator on the grant, , along with Khidir Hilu, professor of biological sciences, and Scott King, professor of geosciences, all at Virginia Tech, successfully applied for the $2 million grant through the National Science Foundation’s Major Instrumentation Program to invent and build “HokieSpeed.”
Feng, who joined Virginia Tech in 2006, is an expert in efficient computing systems. He is the founder of the Green500 List, a ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world, and considered to be a complementary listing to the Top500 List of supercomputers. He also serves as the faculty co-director for the NSF Center on High Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC), an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC).
Virginia Tech became a key player in the field of high-end computing in 2003, when it designed and built System X, when the machine was ranked as the fastest academic supercomputer in the world (November, 2003 TOP500 List). Srindhi Varadarajan, associate professor of computer science, was the chief architect of System X.
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