A supercomputer network Times readers first learned about Sunday, and nicknamed after Gov. Kathleen Blanco, will cause a stir in academic circles, the state Board of Regents says.
The supercomputer links powerful computers at universities across the state through LONI, the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, and has 50 teraflops of power.
A "FLOP," or a "floating point operation per second," is a measure of a computer's performance, and a teraflop is a million times a million of those.
But the state Board of Regents calls it the "Queen Bee," after a nickname the governor received from opponents.
"What Queen Bee is expected to do," a release from the Regents says, "is vault Louisiana into the world's upper echelons of supercomputing research capacity."
The news for Northwest Louisiana came Sunday in a Times article explaining efforts to induce the Air Force to base a new cyber command at Barksdale Air Force Base.
Click on the links at right to read the Board of Regents Release and to read Times articles on the cyber initiatives that appeared Sunday and Monday.
Publish Date:
06-12-2007
