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Virtual Compute Corporation announced it has signed an agreement with MCI allowing the company to provide global reach to clients of their high performance computing resources. This agreement gives Virtual Compute the ability to quickly provision the needed bandwidth to client locations worldwide. vCompute is a premium provider of supercomputing resources to companies and professionals in the fields of Geosciences, Energy, Health Sciences, Earth Sciences, Cheminformatics, and more. vCompute resources allow clients to increase the speed of research and exploration results by gaining quick access to advanced large scale computational systems and applications that were not commercially available before. "Our high performance computing services allow us to recognize the value of supercomputing in areas that benefit humanity the most. Advanced medical research, computer aided drug designs, genetic engineering, nanotechnology development and other important research can be accomplished through the use of these systems," commented Edward Hawes, the CEO of vCompute. "The agreement with MCI completes the picture for us. Now we can quickly connect our clients to the computing resources here in the US and in the UK. We also gained access to 120 premium data centers around the globe to facilitate expansion for ourselves, our partners and our clients," continued Hawes. vCompute's approach to this market is similar to IBM, however it has a very different flavor as you talk with the management at the company. This group has a very sharp focus whose only mission is to build the largest and most advanced supercomputing resource on the planet. They are well on their way. The company would not comment on exact capacity however we found out they can provision cluster segments as large as 2000 Opteron processors and their web site indicates a current available capacity of almost 5000. That's a lot of compute power. The design of this company is intriguing as they seem to have all the bases covered. With global centers and access to the largest IP network in the world they could set the standards of the utility computing age. This company is clearly one to watch.